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Events in Saaremaa
Saaremaa - an exciting island
Saaremaa in numbers
Kuressaare town
Tourism in Saaremaa
Accommodaton
Rental and leisure services
Places of interest in Kuressaare
Places of interest in Saaremaa and Muhu
Water tourism and water sports
Horse rideing
Nature holiday
Bluff's
Wayfarers' Churches
History of Kuressaare
Chronology of Kuressaare History
History of Kuressaare town government in the years 1879 - 1917
Saaremaa History
Railroad of Saaremaa
Vaivere school story
Tuulingumäe grave at Tõnija
Birth of Nasva village
The Formation of the Kihelkonna Village
Outlines of the Maasilinn Harbour
Mihkli farm and its inhabitants throughout the centuries
Saaremaa in the year 1900
Witchcraft in Saaremaa during the Danish Age
The County Council and Government of Saaremaa in the years 1917 - 1940
Fragments from the sakraal interior of Saaremaa in the 17th century
Administrative division in Saaremaa
Culture and education throughout the ages
85 years of education in estonian on saaremaa
The development of vocational education in Saaremaa
Kuressaare Maritime School in 1891-1915
Facts about Kuressaare cinema
Famous and less famous
Harri Haamer
Traugott Hahn. Memories of my life
Jakob Hurda's relationship with Saaremaa
Kaarma man Oskar Kallas centuary ago in finland
Death of Walter Flex
Societies and Literature as promoters of Saaremaa printing
Elle Meier - a girl from Kaarma who can read a book of nature
Foreign powers on Saaremaa
Kuressaare bloodwork
Kalmar War in Estonia 1611 - 1613
Soviet Army in Western Saaremaa and its relationship with local people
The conquest of Muhu in September 1941
From the Russian Tsar to the Republic of Estonia
Searching for German war graves from Saaremaa
Laimjala Manor
Laimjala manor is located at the 40-kilometer mark on the Kuivastu-Kuressaare road. The manor began its existence as a government-owned entity during the second half of the 17th century. Similar to many other Saaremaa manor holdings, it was still owned by the government in the 18th century. In 1793 it was given to Majorgeneral Jakob Pistor. In the following years, the manor changed hands many times.
In 1808 the manor came into the ownership of the Nolcken family. Apparently, the manor was then remodeled into its present form. The previous peasant-style building was rebuilt according to the classic style then prevalent. This included a pillared portico, which now no longer exists. The field in front of the main building was surrouned by traditionally-placed outbuildings.
Even today the main entrance to the building is guarded by two dolomite lions. Such statues were very fashionable in Saaremaa at the beginning of the 20th century.


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Britain's economic recovery 'blown off course'
Britain's economic recovery is at risk of being "blown off course" by the Eurozone crisis and gloomy forecasts for growth at home, business leaders have warned.
The CBI called on ministers to overhaul new European Union laws giving "gold plated" employment rights to temporary workers, arguing that the rules were hampering the recovery by making firms reluctant to hire agency staff.
The warnings came amid signs of growing tension inside the Coalition over how to tackle the flagging economy, as the Bank of England prepares to cut its forecasts for growth.
The CBI report suggested that businesses are reducing the number of temporary staff they employ and are imposing pay freezes on existing employees, in light of the new EU Agency Workers Directive.
A survey of over 460 firms found that only one in six planned to increased recruitment of temporary workers, while one in five expected to cut back.
The CBI's deputy director general, Neil Bentley, said the directive was having a negative impact on recruitment, which should set "alarm bells" ringing in Whitehall.
"We want a review next year to make sure it does not cause any more damage," he said. It is in everyone's interest to help as many people as possible to get into the labour market.
"Employers are making hiring plans on shifting sands and there is a risk the tentative private sector jobs recovery could be blown off course by fast-moving economic events at home and abroad."
The warnings come ahead of fresh unemployment figures, to be published this week. Ministers are braced for the number of under-25s year-olds out of work to exceed one million for the first time since records began 20 years ago.
The Bank of England is expected to cut its forecasts for economic growth on Tuesday. Analysts suggest that the Bank's prediction will be for a rise in GDP of just 1% this year, down from an earlier forecast of 1.5%.
However, senior Liberal Democrats and Conservatives appear to be split on how to respond to the slowdown in the British recovery.
On Sunday, Vince Cable, the Business Secretary, claimed he was "right" to have warned before last year's election that cutting public spending too fast would undermine growth.
In a further sign of friction, the Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, postponed a speech on the economy, which he was due to give today, partly because key policies were not yet agreed between the two governing parties.
The Chancellor, George Osborne, is due to publish his plan for stimulating growth in his annual autumn budget statement at the end of the month.
But proposals must first be signed off by the "Quad" of key decision makers in the Cabinet: Mr Osborne, the Prime Minister, Mr Clegg and the Lib Dem Treasury chief secretary, Danny Alexander.
The Chancellor is drawing up plans for a £50 billion pound infrastructure development programme, including road and house building schemes, to create jobs and stimulate private sector investment.
While Lib Dems are believed to support the infrastructure projects, other key areas of economic policy are yet to be agreed.
Senior party figures have rejected moves to reform employment law to allow firms to "fire at will" staff who are underperforming.
Lib Dem ministers also object to suggestions that the Treasury should abandon a promise to increase benefits in line with inflation, which is higher than had been expected.
Party sources said the proposal was being fought on the grounds that the poorest families need more disposable income to spend on the high street to help the economy to grow.
Mr Cable told the BBC Politics Show that there was "no doubt" that benefits should be increased in line with inflation, although he conceded that there were "issues" and "detail" still to be decided ahead of the Chancellor's autumn budget statement.

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A grant of up to $10 million from the U.S. Department of Transportation to test autonomous vehicles has become available, and the Los Angeles City Council is expected to decide Tuesday if it wants to apply for it.
Councilman David Ryu introduced a motion earlier this month calling on the city to apply for the grant and said the program is focused on safety, collecting data for safety analysis and rulemaking, and collaboration. The award ceiling for each application is $10 million and no local match is required.
On December 21, 2018, the U.S. Department of Transportation Federal Highway Administration issued a notice of funding availability for the Automated Driving System Demonstration Grants for the purpose of testing integration of automated driving systems across the nation.
The City Council last year signaled it wants to take a more active role in the development of federal and state autonomous vehicle regulations, and also support an increase of local government access to AV data.
Autonomous vehicles were approved in 2018 for road tests in California, but a series of fatal accidents involving the autos have raised questions about their reliability.
The council passed a resolution in April 2018 that says the city "should support this new technology and take an active role in the development of federal and state AV regulations," while also pointing out that Mayor Eric Garcetti in 2017 was appointed co-chair of a federal advisory committee on automation and AV technology.
The mayor's role on the committee "provides the city an unparalleled opportunity to shape the implementation of AV," according to the resolution, which says the city should support any state or federal legislation that would increase local government access to data, such as accidents and unplanned disengagements. It also says the city should support legislation that would prioritize the need for standardized operating plans or law enforcement personnel, and other regulations.
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City of Palm Bay to Host Patriot Day Remembrance Ceremony at City Hall on September 11
On September 8, 2022 September 10, 2022 By Space Coast Daily
ceremony will include guest speakers, a bell ringing ceremony and a moment of silence
The City of Palm Bay will host a Patriot Day Remembrance Ceremony at Palm Bay City Hall on Sunday, September 11 at 12:00 p.m. to honor the fallen. The ceremony will include guest speakers, a bell ringing ceremony, and a moment of silence. (U.S. Navy image)
BREVARD COUNTY • PALM BAY, FLORIDA – The City of Palm Bay will host a Patriot Day Remembrance Ceremony at Palm Bay City Hall on Sunday, September 11 at 12 noon to honor the fallen.
The ceremony will include guest speakers, a bell ringing ceremony, and a moment of silence.
"Each of the lives lost on September 11th had meaning, they all had a purpose. It is our duty and our obligation to ensure that they will Never be Forgotten," said Palm Bay Mayor Rob Medina.
"On that wretched day, twenty-one years ago, thousands of innocent people were taken from us. Our nation was left to mourn. The attacks of September 11th were the worst assault on American Soil in our country's history."
"They were an attack on the universal ideals of peace, justice, and liberty – the essential human rights that civilized nations like ours embody and strive to uphold," Mayor Medina continued.
Patriot Day is a day to honor every life that was taken too soon. We honor the first responders — firefighters, law enforcement officers, emergency workers, and service members — who answered the call of duty.
We pay tribute to the brave civilians who rushed into action to save lives that day. Their courage represents the American spirit and resilience, and their heroism continues to inspire new generations of Americans. We will never forget!
The public is invited to attend. Please arrive early as the ceremony will begin at 12 p.m. sharp.
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Will there be a racing club for Demo NKPro? just a thought out of the blue, since I'm thinking we need to get people more to this great simulation. since there seem to be more and more activity from Kunos. I'm tired of LFS really.
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Reconsidering a 1,000-year-old job description
Al Cooper
Editor's Note: Al Cooper is taking a break from writing for a month or so. This column originally ran Nov. 4, 2016.
It has been said of our National Parks and wilderness areas that we are in danger of "loving them to death," with possible over-use beginning to have a noticeable impact. Living near the main corridor serving Zion National Park, I am keenly aware of the traffic burden spawned by more than 5 million annual visitors. I noted this year as well that the annual removal of human waste from one "backcountry" facility by helicopter (humorously known as "operation heli-poo") took four days rather than one, with many other complications.
Even beyond the concerns of "over-tourism", there are culture clashes between backcountry "purists" and horse-loving trail-riders and especially all forms of engine-powered recreation. As a much-younger downriver kayaker, I had to deal with low-hanging barbed-wire strung across selected stretches of fast-water Ozark rivers by locals fearing for their timber and forestry industry.
When I discovered a British author who was also a government appointee working to ensure a sustainable balance between tourism and the most ancient and honored of farming professions in that country's Lake District — a region now as visited as our own Yellowstone — I bought his book.
What I found in my hands was a multi-generational autobiographical odyssey of life as a shepherd family in northwest England's Cumbria, a land of rolling and green hills ( fells) and valleys (swales) crisscrossed with iconic gray stone dry walls. The author, James Rebanks, an Oxford-educated highland shepherd titled his book 'A SHEPHERD'S LIFE - modern dispatches from an ancient landscape'which describes well the writing style which follows such a daily life through the year and its rough-and-tumble animal-and-weather-driven seasons.
To understand what makes sheep-raising and everything associated with it in this unique landscape - including the people - such an interesting story takes us back to 1100 to 1200 AD following the Norman invasion. It was probably Norsemen who brought to the area the ancestors of the Herdwick sheep that graze today's high Fells (and perhaps the Swaledales in the neighboring Pennines.) This breed of sheep are super-hardy and thrive in the cold and wet fell country without wandering away. Taught by their mothers through succeeding generations they remain faithful to their respective territories and memorize the topography of their family range. They winter in the fells today and come down only to lamb. The process of being taught to survive this difficult life on the fells is known as hefting, and a hefted Herdwick is a valuable member of combined flocks numbering more than 100,000 today. It is the grazing sheep "trimming" the tops of the hills which keep them clear from the brush which covers the lower slopes thus becoming symbiotic partners in maintaining the very landscape which brings tourists by the millions each year. With diminishing markets, sheep-raising alone can no longer support the region. Tourism while endangering sheep management offers the economic help which can make a difference.
Men like James Rebanks work as a nexus between the two interests to seek a sustainable balance, while continuing himself to live on and operate a working sheep farm teaching the ancient craft to his own children. The most fascinating dimension of his book for me is the telling of the shepherd's tale and the realization that after all the effort involved in "pulling" new-born lambs in a difficult birth, diagnosing and doctoring the sick, arranging on-the-spot parents for 5-minute-old orphans, hand-warming half-frozen storm victims and hunting down lost sheep in a blowing blizzard, only life-long on-the-job experience yields the kind of vision needed to think two-generations ahead in making wise breeding decisions and selecting candidates for important annual competitions.
My biggest "take?" Preserving the living legacy of a 600-year-old family and national tradition is worth whatever it might take.
Email Al Cooper at ascooper@infowest.com.


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Indianapolis Metal Fest Returns This September
Following a successful 2007 debut, the Indianapolis Metal Fest is returning this September 26 and 27.
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The festival includes an assortment of headliner-status and personally-chosen unsigned artists, including three bands that will be making their U.S. debuts. Bands already confirmed are: Dew Scented, Kittie, Divine Heresy, Mustasch, Daylight Dies, Bleed The Sky, Into Eternity, Ekotren, Skeletonwitch, The Destro, Gigan (ex-Hate Eternal), Psyopus, Level-C, Obszon Geschopf, Black Chapel, Demiricous, Gates of Slumber, Threat Signal, and The Absence. In all, the festival will host 60 bands over the two days.
With an extensive background in the music business and live show promotion, promoter Rob Mason has modeled the Indianapolis Metal Fest to encompass all sub-genres of metal for a well-rounded and diverse lineup of bands.
"In addition to a great American lineup, we're bringing in bands from Sweden, Germany, France, South America, and Canada," Mason said. "Mustasch, for example, are huge in Europe. They recently won the Swedish equivalent of a Grammy award, and they're making their U.S. debut at Indianapolis Metal Fest."
Mason also remains committed to his original vision of shining the spotlight on the Indianapolis metal scene and the bands who grind it out in local venues every day.
"Even though the fest has increased in size, I'm very dedicated to the idea that IMF will be a catalyst to present opportunities to local and regional talent," he said. "A band we put on the stage at IMF last year was signed as a direct result of their performance. They weren't a local band, but the opportunity was there."
Indianapolis Metal Fest II is presented by Blind Prophecy Records and Roaring Lion Energy Drink, and will be hosted by Mistress Juliya. Other sponsors include: Sam Ash Music, Jagermeister, Marshall Amplification, 1Vision Records, Halo Custom Guitars, Divirta, Ltd.,Candlelight Records, Dark Star Records, Epitomite Productions, Airplay Direct, Project Independent, Anchor Recordings, Tech 21 NYC, Soul Asylum Poetry and Publishing, and Blastzone Entertainment.
"It helps to have sponsor partners who share your vision, to say the least," Mason said. "The support of these allow us to put on a quality two-day festival. We couldn't do it without them."
The show will take place at Madame Walker Theater, located at 617 Indiana Avenue in Indianapolis. Tickets go on sale Saturday, July 12 and cost $30 in advance/$40 at the door for a two-day admission. Tickets will be available through indianapolismetalfest.com and at select retails locations.
All tickets are general admission. Indianapolis Metal Fest II is an all ages show.
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At a meeting held on May 20, 2015 the Heritage Museum Association & the Arts and Heritage Festival Committee decided not to host the Arts & Heritage Festival for the 2015 year. A number of factors had contributed the this decision.
The first was that the Town of Petty Harbour/Maddox Cove in partnership with the Development Corporation and Provincial and Federal funding partners will be carrying out major upgrades to the main festival site, Bidgood's Cove, this summer.
The second factor was that the committee will use the time off to refocus on the festival setup with some great ideas on how to rebrand the festival theme. The committee is gearing toward the salt fish industry.
The Arts and Heritage Festival Committee would like to thank everyone for helping to create a very successful six years for the Arts & Heritage Festival.


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How did the Kenora Thistles become, against all odds, the smallest team and the smallest town ever to win the Stanley Cup?
This famously scrappy hockey team was founded in the rough and tumble town of Kenora, Ontario, at the end of the 19th century. A decade later, playing far away from home, in Montreal, the fiery teenagers whom the Montreal Star dubbed "the fastest that have ever been seen anywhere on ice" out-skated and out-played their older, more experienced opponents to win the coveted hockey championship trophy.
Sports novelist John Danakas and journalist Richard Brignall teamed up in to tell the true story of the ultimate underdogs in this a little-known chapter from Canadian sports history.
In this Journey into Hockey we speak Rick Brignall about the story of Kenora and their Thistles that won the Stanley Cup.
Pitching Dixie's past during the run-up to next year's 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War could be challenging.
One of the most important figures in Canadian history, Frederick Arthur Stanley's most enduring legacy is not his term as the country's sixth Governor General but the trophy cup that bears his name.
As the playoffs begin, we speak with author and hockey historian Kevin Shea about the man has name is associated with hockey champions. Shea is author of Lord Stanley: The Man Behind the Cup (Key Porter Books; First Edition edition (June 14, 2007)).
In this Journey into Hockey, we explore with Kevin Shea Lord Stanley's political legacy — his diplomacy in dealing with the United States, his embrace of Canada's West, and his nimble handling of domestic crises — fleshing out a man who was far more than just an avid sportsman.
April 11 is International Louie Louie Day. It provides an annual opportunity to celebrate a song that has been called by some "the greatest part of song of all time". It has been recorded more than any other song in rock history (by one estimate more than 2400 times), and was almost declared the state song of Washington.
In this Journey into Hidden America, we speak with Louie Louie enthusiast and entertainer Andy Martello about Louie Louie Day.
Baseball, the sport that helped reunify the country in the years after the Civil War, is still considered the National Pastime. The Library of Congress houses the world's largest baseball collection, documenting the history of the game and providing a unique look at America since the late 1700s. Now Baseball Americana (Smithsonian Books, 2010) presents the best of the best from that treasure trove. From baseball's biggest stars to street urchins, from its most newsworthy stories to sandlot and Little League games, the book examines baseball's hardscrabble origins, rich cultural heritage, and uniquely American character.
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On April 14, 1865, John Wilkes Booth shot and President Abraham Lincoln at the Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C. Lincoln died soon thereafter.
A popular area tour just outside Washington is a 12 hour bus ride that takes riders over the route used by Abraham Lincoln's assassin. We speak with Laurie Verge of the Surratt House Museum about John Wilkes Booth, Mary Surratt (the first woman executed in the United States) and the John Wilkes Booth Escape Route Tour.
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It's the world championship pickled quail-egg eating contest in which contestants devour as many of these gourmet delights as possible in the 60 second limit.
The eggs, about the size of an olive, are soaked in jalapeno.
This world-renowned Traders Village contest chomped in at #5 in the Travel Channels Top Ten all-time great eating contest in the world.
Lakeland (Greystone Books, 2009) is a journey of a discovery with a country. In the course of his travels, Allen Casey examined just what lakes mean to Canada.
Interestingly, while many volumes had been written about the Great Lakes, this is a rare book in that it explores Canada's three million other lakes.
We speak with Allen Casey about the inspiration for his journey, what he found and how it changed him.
March 14, 1950 was the date that the Federal Bureau of Investigation instituted the "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" list an effort to publicize particularly dangerous criminals who were at large. From 1950 to 2008, 491 fugitives have appeared on the list; 460 have been located. Generally, the only way to go off the list is die or be capture. The FBI has come to cooperate with the producers of T.V.'s "America's Most Wanted" to further publicize those fugitives.
In this Journey in Hidden America we speak with Bradley Bryant, Chief of the Violent Crime Unit of the FBI, about the list, its history and just what it means to the bureau.
Thirty years after the original start by Terry Fox to begin his cross-country Marathon of Hope to raise awareness and funds for cancer research on April 12, 1980, under the warm sun, people gathered Monday (4-12-10) around Fox's "0 mile" site — where he took the first steps of his trek — to announce the launch of the Terry Fox Research Institute Atlantic Node.
And officials hope even more literary pilgrims will come this year to mark the centenary of the author's death and see the place that inspired Twain's masterpieces, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.
In The Wolf's Head - Writing Lake Superior (Cormorant Books, 2008) ,Peter Unwin has recorded the stories of the great Superior and the people who, over centuries, have determined to make it their home.
In this Journey into Canada, we speak with Unwin, who helps lay out the history of the lake and its lands.
64 pieces; 6 strings; 1 Canada; 1 guitar.
This is the story of Voyageur, teh Six String Nation guitar, which was built from throughout Canada – it is comprised almost entirely of pieces of Canadian history. Pierre Trudeau's canoe paddle is the tone bar, Paul henderson's hockey stick is part of the pick guard; and the sacred Golden Spruce of Haida Gwaii froms the face. Even Maurice Richard's first Stanley Cup ring adorns the ninth fret.
We speak with project organizor and author Jowi Taylor about Vaoyageur's story – from concetion through construction through its debut in front of 80,000 people on Canada Day 2006.
As Jowi relates, the story continues to unfold today.
These days, it is popular to develope lists of "must do" lists of activities befor one days.
The world of hockey is no exception.
The Pursuit of Hockeyness (Hockey News – Tarnscontinental Books) is a must-do checklist of "everything" hockey fans need to accomplish in their lifetime. There are 99 featured suggestions, each accompanied by a full-colour photo, ranging from interesting places to visit to unique events that have to be experienced to be believed to the colourful people and players that make hockey the game we so love. Items on the list run the gamut of serious, funny, obscure and compelling; and, every NHL team as well as just about every major hockey leagues in North America (and most in Europe, too) is covered.
The Pursuit of Hockeyness celebrates all things hockey by offering fans a compendium of people, places and events that should be seen and/or experienced before the final buzzer sounds (if you know what we mean).
In this Journey into Hockey we speak with project editor Sam McCaig about the book, how the list was made and some of its most compelling activities that hockey fans should experience before they die.
Starting next season, the Pittsburgh Penguins will be moiving into one of those new state of the art arenas.
Though the club and fans alikes eem to be lookig forward to the move, this also means the end of the place affectionately known as "The Igloo".
Now called the Mellon Arena, it was for a longtime known as the Civic Auditorium and Civic Arena. The building was constructed in 1961 for use by the Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera.
Over the years, The Igloo has hosted multiple concerts, as well as hockey, basketball, tennis, boxing, wrestling, and soccer matches.
Of course, it is best known as home to the Penguins.
Interestingly, the Arena was the world's first major indoor sports stadium with a retractable roof.
In this Journey into Hockey, we speak with journalist and Pittsburgh Hockey historian Jim Kubus about the Igloo and what it has meant to folks in Pittsburgh.
Dark at home – white on the road ? Or white at home and dark on the road ? Third jerseys ?
What do you favor ?
These are but a few of the regular discussions of hockey fans these days when it comes to hockeys jerseys.
Actually, the traditional term in Canada is that of hockey sweater. But to appeal to its readership in the States, the Hockey News creating a "Collector's Edition" publication called "Greatest Hockey Jerseys of All Time".
It's a great work. Its contents range from a history of the sweater (starting with the Montreal Wanderers, circa 1903-18), to other leagues, long lost teams, Olympics and more.
In this Journey into Hockey, we speak with Brian Costello, Senior Editor for the project, about the publication and the story of the hockey jersey (sweater).
Journeys into Hidden America contributor Elizabeth Muse joins us to chat about some ways to spend a Day's Outing now that the snow has melted and the winter chill has gone away.
Actor John Forsythe passed away on April 2 at age 92.
To most, he is known for his leading role in "Dynasty" and his voice on "Charlie's Angels".
To me, John Forsyth is remembered for his role as leading man in the 195--1961 program "Bachelor Father".
The program would be inappropriate today on many levels. But for its time, it was a sweet view.
Bachelor Father followed the adventures of Bentley Gregg, a wealthy bachelor attorney living in Beverly Hills who assumes the responsibility of raising his niece, Kelly (Noreen Corcoran), after her parents die in an automobile accident. Other members of the Gregg household include houseboy Peter Tong (Sammee Tong), teenage neighbor and Kelly's boyfriend, Howard Meechum (Jimmy Boyd) and Jasper, the dog.
Plots centered on Bentley's adjustments to his new role as an adoptive parent, Bentley's search for the right woman to share his life, Kelly facing the usual problems of adolescence and young adulthood as she goes from high school to college, and, less often, Peter's misadventures with some financial scheme. In its final season, they storylines led to Kelly's impending marriage to Bentley's junior partner, Warren Dawson, portrayed by Aron Kinkaid. The series ended prior to the wedding.
The series' pilot episode was originally presented on General Electric Theater (as "A New Girl in His Life") on May 26, 1957. The program was first telecast on CBS on September 15, 1957. It originally aired on Sunday evenings on alternating weeks with The Jack Benny Program opposite NBC's Sally and ABC's Maverick. The show moved to NBC on Thursday nights in June 1959 and concluded its run on the network in September 1961. The series moved on to ABC on Tuesday nights in 1961 for its final season. The last episode ran September 25, 1962. It was primarily sponsored by American Tobacco (Hit Parade, Tareyton cigarettes) throughout its original run.
In its time, the program was a big deal. But today, it has been all but eclipsed by John Forsythe's more memorable roles in Charlie's Angels and Dynasty.


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Abu Dhabi will build the world's largest solar power plant
It has recently been announced that Abu Dhabi will become the home of the world's largest solar power plant, highlighting the region's commitment to...
It has recently been announced that Abu Dhabi will become the home of the world's largest solar power plant, highlighting the region's commitment to sustainable building and utilising renewable energy sources, which are aligned with the UAE Energy Plan 2050.
Costing approximately $8700 million, the 1.17 gigawatt plant will provide enough power to approximately 200,000 homes. Responsible for the construction works will be a consortium encompassing Abu Dhabi Water and Electricity Authority (ADWEA), Marubeni Corporation and manufacturing company Jinkosolar.
The new plant will be funded 25 percent by equity and 75 percent by debt, with local and international banks supporting the funding of this debt. The project will also become one of the most cost effective energy projects in the world, with the consortium offering to provide electricity at a non-weighted cost of 2.94 cents per kWh, according to The National.
Expected to complete in 2019, Abdullah Musleh Al Ahbabi, Chairman of ADWEA said, "The tenders for the project was opened in April of last year. We received more than 90 proposals from the world's largest companies in solar energy, which indicated the investors' trust in the authority," he added.
Sheikh Hazza bin Zayed, the vice chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council, also commented, "this project must be associated with the creation of advanced research centres to drive the economic and technological journey, placing the UAE on the world map of knowledge-based economies."
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Longitarsus noricus is een keversoort uit de familie bladkevers (Chrysomelidae). De wetenschappelijke naam van de soort werd in 1976 gepubliceerd door Leonardi.

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How Many Episodes Of Friends Did Maggie Wheeler Star In?
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If you're a "Friends" fanatic, chances are you read that in Janice Hosenstein's iconic voice. Janice, played by the talented Maggie Wheeler, is Chandler's (Matthew Perry) on-again, off-again girlfriend for much of the series. She's known for that signature catchphrase, her nasally laugh, and her complete obliviousness to how irritating she is.
Joey, Ross, Monica, Phoebe, and Rachel find Janice impossibly annoying, as does Chandler, but his (often hilarious) attempts to break up with her often fail, and Chandler frequently finds himself back with her. Even later in the series, when Chandler and Monica are fully committed as a couple, Janice continues to pop up in their lives.
Wheeler has had a very successful career outside Friends, appearing in fellow veteran sitcom "Everybody Loves Raymond" as well as lending her voice talents to adult animated series "Archer" and appearing as a disgruntled camp counselor in the beloved film "The Parent Trap." Yet to many audiences, Wheeler will always be best known as the hilarious drama queen Janice. But how many episodes of "Friends" did Maggie Wheeler star in?
Maggie Wheeler is in nearly every season of Friends
Maggie Wheeler can be seen in 19 episodes of "Friends." The character appears in nearly all 10 seasons of the show, with the exception of Season 6, where only her signature voice is head in a mixtape Chandler gives to Monica.
While Janice is best known as Chandler's love interest, she has other connections to the core group. Her presence is often the source of humor, with the gang unable to believe how she just keeps appearing in their lives. Notably, in Season 5, Janice and Ross even begin dating after his wedding to Emily is called off when he famously says Rachel's name at the altar instead.
Janice is also present during important moments in the gang's life, including sharing a hospital room with Rachel as the two women coincidentally go into labor at the same time, and when Monica and Chandler visit a fertility clinic as they are trying to have a baby. Hilariously, at the end of Season 10, as Monica and Chandler are buying a house in the suburbs, they even discover their potential next-door neighbor is Janice. Horrified, Chandler pretends to still have feelings for her, leading her to leave, as she doesn't want to ruin his marriage.
Janice is one of the most beloved side characters in "Friends," and we love laughing at her crazy antics during our many rewatches of the show.


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GOQii: Envisioning a New Fitness Future (B)
Sonia Mehrotra , Arun Pereira
FITNESS BAND ,	GOQii,	VIRTUAL TECHNOLOGY,	PREVENTIVE HEALTHCARE,	ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Gondal, a serial entrepreneur, was supported by top technology experts in GOQii's angel round of funding. Case A details GOQii's journey from its incorporation in 2014 until April 2016. It describes GOQii's product-service offering of wearable fitness band technology supplemented with remote personalized coaching, its launch in the Indian market, and its emergence as a pioneer of a new category of product in the health and lifestyle space that had the ability to integrate human assistance with built-in artificial intelligence. Gondal realized that while people were adopting wearable technology solutions for healthy living, there was still a lack of awareness and an air of hesitancy about the usefulness of and need for wearable devices in India. Gondal's dilemma: whether to continue GOQii's positioning as "wearable technology with personalized coaching" and aggressively expand globally, or consolidate and broaden his present offering by embracing the customer more fully and focusing on the "customer healthcare journey" in India. Case B picks up from October 2016, by which time GOQii had consolidated and broadened its offering by focusing on the "customer journey" in India. It had successfully on-boarded different service providers such as doctors, a diagnostic center chain, a hospital chain, sports and grocery stores and Axis Bank (for payments) on their platform, thus providing a complete health ecosystem to the GOQii user. By the second quarter of 2016, GOQii had achieved the number one spot in the Indian wearables market. The immediate decision that GOQii core team need to make is whether they should tie up with multiple insurance providers or explore the possibility of partnering with a reinsurer to complete the entire health spectrum services offering on their data platform.
The two cases allow for an in-depth discussion on the key role of a business model in ensuring the competitive advantage and sustained success of a business venture.
The cases are structured around the following teaching/ learning objectives:
· To identify the various traits of an entrepreneur
· To identify the forces on which an entrepreneurial opportunity is dependent.
· To appreciate the market attractiveness and future of wearable technology.
· To understand the importance of a customer journey and its ability to provide competitive advantage to a brand.
· To understand the key role of the choice of business model in ensuring the competitive advantage
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San Rafael Elks Lodge #1108, Corporate Visions, and donor Bob Gordon, acting together on our shared focus on our community's youth, have donated 86 bikes to 4th graders in San Rafael Public Schools.
This ongoing project includes a bike, helmet, lock and a safety class for each kid. Fourth grade students are selected based on their short essays on what they would do with a bike, how they give back to their community, and their good attitude and leadership at school.
Our Lodge's donation, over 30 bikes, has been made with the assistance from Elks National Foundation (ENF) Grant Money and donations from members.
The enthusiasm and joy that these kids express when receiving their bike is wonderful and contagious. For these moments and opportunities, we are grateful.


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"KARMACOMA" RECTANGLE NECKLACE - MASSIVE ATTACK X LEGACY OF WAR COLLABORATION
PART OF OUR ARTIST + ACTIVIST COLLECTION
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Born from artist and Massive Attack co-founder Robert del Naja's vision to inform and create change, these unique pieces connect the stories of women such as Mrs. Mun from Laos, ARTICLE22 Laotian artisans who repurpose shrapnel and other scrap to support UXO clearance, and Legacy of War Foundation's mission to help communities rebuild themselves.
Supporting communities affected by conflict, Legacy of War Foundation is an international charity that starts conversations and builds collaborations with conflict survivors, non-profits, and creatives. The foundation provides injured civilians in remote areas with prosthetics as well as prosthetist and orthotic job trainings. LEARN MORE
"I will never forget meeting Mrs. Mun in Laos several years ago. She was living in the village where she'd been born, Nummen. One of the most beautiful, lush valleys you could ever hope to see. Beneath the beauty, though, lies a terrible legacy. Nummen is one of the most heavily bombed places in the world. Between 1964 and 1973, one million cluster bomblets were dropped in the square kilometre around the tiny village.
Like the village, Mrs. Mun's life is woven into that history. She was born in 1974, the year after the bombing ended, so should have escaped the conflict and been brought up in a time of peace. However, unexploded cluster munitions still contaminate the ground around her home. She was injured twice as a child as she worked the fields with her brother and daughter, they accidentally triggered an unexploded bomb (UXO). When she regained consciousness, she found they were both dead. 'I can no longer work,' she told me, 'for now, whenever I visit the paddy fields, I still see the bodies of my daughter and brother in the water in my eyes.'
It is stories like this that led to the creation of Legacy of War Foundation, a charity supports communities and individuals to rebuild lives after conflict. For we have learnt that war's don't end when peace treaties are signed, they leave a legacy that can destroy lives for generations.
At Legacy of War one of our key principles is collaboration. So we couldn't be prouder than to be part of this collaboration between the band Massive Attack and the wonderful team at ARTICLE22. Born from artist and musician Robert del Naja's vision for Massive Attack to inform and create change, these unique pieces connect the stories of women such as Mrs. Mun, ARTICLE22 artisans who repurpose shrapnel to support UXO clearance, and Legacy of War's mission to help communities rebuild themselves" - Giles Duly
$95 clears 6m2 of Laotian landscape
4cm Peacebomb Aluminum Rectangle
28" Sterling Silver Ball Chain.


Already a very popular platform for web, Blackberry and Android mobile development, you'll want to bring all your apps to Ubuntu.
A great app will use the unique features in Ubuntu to create a fresh, uncluttered, purposeful and fast experience. Make one app binary for all form factors – web or native. You have it all at your fingertips when you run Ubuntu on your workstation.
Web apps are first class citizens on Ubuntu, with APIs that provide deep integration into the system. HTML5 apps written for other platforms can be adapted to Ubuntu with ease, and we're targeting standard cross-platform web app development frameworks like PhoneGap to make Ubuntu "Just Work" for those apps.
of the browser, with its own icon and access to system services. Which means that all the big names will be available to Ubuntu phone and tablet users at launch.
you can use the Ubuntu SDK to build your app and, with some care and attention, make it available to users of Ubuntu PCs, phones and tablets – all in a single upload to the Ubuntu Software Centre.
If you are writing apps for Ubuntu today, it's time to go mobile. Download the Preview SDK and get started today.
If you're an OEM or content provider, please get in touch to talk in more detail about Ubuntu on tablets.


Reshaping the surfboard to fit the surfer, the surf break, and even design trends can be a metaphor for how surfing has been and is being reshaped to fit popular culture. Whether it is looking at how surfing has become a major carrier of Hawaiian culture or even how the reshaping of shorelines has impacted wave riding, there are many issues on surfing to explore.
On Tuesday, July 19, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in HPR's Atherton Performing Arts Studio, the Hawai'i Council for the Humanities, Honolulu Museum of Art and Hawai'i Public Radio presented Think Spot Sessions: Surfing, a dynamic, audience-driven roundtable exploring how one of the world's oldest sports has influenced mainstream culture in Hawai'i and around the world.
Featured guest speakers included Tom "Pohaku" Stone, surfing historian; Mindy Pennybacker, "In the Lineup" columnist and staff writer at Honolulu Star-Advertiser; and Karin Amimoto Ingersoll, author of Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology. Healoha Johnston, the museum's curator for the arts of Hawai'i collection, served as a moderator along with HPR culture reporter Noe Tanigawa.
(L to R) Karin Amimoto Ingersoll, author of "Waves of Knowing: A Seascape Epistemology;" Tom "Pohaku" Stone, surfing historian; Mindy Pennybacker, "In the Lineup" columnist and staff writer at Honolulu Star-Advertiser; and Healoha Johnston, curator for the arts of Hawai'i collection, Honolulu Museum of Art, discuss surfing culture during Think Spot Sessions at Hawai'i Public Radio's Atherton Studio.
Noe Tanigawa (center), Hawai'i Public Radio culture reporter, introduces roundtable discussants.


Mobile and online payment options are becoming more common in healthcare, simply because they simplify the payment process, delivering a consumer-friendly patient experience. In addition, patients are growing to expect convenient payment options. The Trends in Healthcare Payments recent 2015 report found that 64% of consumers have an interest in using mobile payment systems, such as Android Pay, Apple Pay, and Samsung Pay.
Some billing services may hesitate when it comes to mobile and online payments, simply because of misconceptions regarding security. With MPMR Medical Billing, you will not have to worry about security breaches. Our billing company is concerned that new payment options could present disruption of workflow, which can be frustrating, impractical, and time-consuming. Because of this, we use updated technologies that improve payment security, while creating an efficient, improved billing service for patients.
Apply Pay, patient portals, and digital wallets can deliver many benefits to the physician and patient. Our billing service looks to add mobile and online payment options that meet Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards (PCI DSS). These standards apply to all entities involved in the payment processing, including processors, merchants, financial institutions, and service providers. In addition, it applies to all other entities that process, store, or transmit cardholder data.
To offer mobile and online payment options, MPMR Medical Billing will ensure that they are PCI compliant. We are aware of the PCI scope and standards, and how new payment technologies can affect the size of the organization's PCI scope. To reduce this scope, our billing service implements payment solutions from a PCI Level 1 Service Provider. Understanding payment security allows us to bring your practice new payment technologies that are safe and secure.
Many patients now expect convenient payment options when it comes to healthcare bills. Patient payment responsibility is rising, so it is critical that billing services offer online payment options. A patient portal in the office is visited regularly. Therefore, adding a payment solution is a must. This offers a high level of security and will reduce PCI scope. Also, as an embedded payment solution, the patient portal allows providers to collect secure payments from mobile devices and online without having the credit/debit card data pass through unsecure networks.
Patients will appreciate the ability to pay their healthcare bills online. Billing services will also use a patient portal to offer payment plans and other ways to pay large balances. Patients may access this system at any time, and pay their bills in increments, which are saved on file. Patients will have 24/7 access to payment methods, which means the billing service has more chances to collect monies owed. With a digital wallet, the patient goes online and stores payment information for future transactions. The next time the patient logs in to the portal, they can select the payment method desired instead of re-entering all the information. The digital wallet makes online payments quicker, and also reduces the amount of effort and time making this payment.
With Apple Pay, the consumer uses the mobile device to make payments rather than reaching their credit card. Apply Pay is extremely secure, and offers three technologies to support the payments. These include: Touch ID, The Secure Element, and Near Field Communication (NFC). In addition, each cellular phone has a secure element that is a separate chip for security. When patients put their card information into the phone, the card network sends a token to Apple, which is securely stored on the phone.


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Romford bowls boys come through tense county triples quarter-final
Lee Chaplin of Romford Bowls Club
Complacency almost costs Chaplin and his boys victory against Connaught
Richard Bolton of Romford Bowls Club is in the semi-finals of the county triples and fours
Complacency so nearly cost the Romford boys in the county triples quarter-final on Thursday evening as they threw away an 11-shot lead to find themselves going into the final end all square.
In a tense, dramatic finish against Tim Mould and his Connaught boys at the Silver End Bowls Club, the Romford team of Trevor Sayers, Richard Bolton and skip Lee Chaplin held their nerve to squeeze through 18-17 to make next weekend's semi-finals.
"At 16-5 it could have been an eas night, but unfortunately I think that is what we all thought," admitted Chaplin afterwards.
"We had one eye on the other quarter-final where Wanstead Central were struggling, so it was complacency and once they started coming at us, they played better and we started falling off the wagon."
Romford bowlers Nigel Smith and Steve Mitchinson are into the county fours semi-finals
Early on, Romford were in dominant form as Sayers set them up for some fine heads and some big scores, picking up a five-count on the first end and then from 8-5, winning five consecutive ends to open up at that big 16-5 lead.
"Trevor was setting the foundations early on which was great, Richard was backing him up and I was backing them both up," said Chaplin. "We were looking good at that stage."
However, it was at that point that things started to go wrong and the Connaught boys hauled themselves back into the game, with Mould at the heart of things.
"Tim is a very good player," said Lee. "A lot of players at 16-5 would have just given up, but he was never going to give up, he just kept plodding along.
"We all kept saying, 'don't worry about it, we are still six up, we are still five up' and all of a sudden we weren't up at all.
"They played it a lot better than we did. It all went wrong from the start with Trevor starting to struggle and the Richatd and I couldn't change anything."
The match went into the final end and after the jack had sprung forwards, it was Bolton who got close to it and in the end Mould could not move it as Romford grabbed the vital winning shot.
That means a semi-final at Westcliff next weekend against the Central boys.
"It will be a tough game, but I am looking forward to it," said Lee. "On the one hand we wouldn't have minded playing the Stock & Buttsbury boys as we may have a better chance, but on the other hand you want to play the big games and this will be a big one.
"You have got to fancy your chances, we will try our best and see what happens."
The other semi-final will see Silver End take on Happy Valley.
Romford will also have a team in the county fours at Westcliff next Saturday after their team showed their form in their quarter-final at Grays Town Bowls Club on Friday evening.
The team of Steve Mitchinson, Richard Bolton, Scott Reading and skip Nigel Smith took on a team from Silver End and cruised to a fine victory by 26-8.
That earned them a clash in the last-four against the Silverthorn team of Mark Banning, Les Mercer, Dave McFarquhar and Richard Haley who overcame Mersea Island by 25-11.
The other semi in that one will see Wanstead Central take on Essex County.


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News Brief: COVID-19 Vaccine, HHS Spokesman, Hurricane Aftermath
The director of the CDC made it very clear during testimony before senators yesterday - wearing a mask, he said, is the No. 1 most important way to beat the coronavirus.
That's right. Dr. Robert Redfield went on to say that if all Americans wore a mask, the virus could be contained in as little as six weeks. He is urging Americans to mask up because he says it's going to be a while before a vaccine is going to be available.
ROBERT REDFIELD: I think we're probably looking at late second quarter, third quarter 2021.
GREENE: Now, when President Trump was asked about Redfield's comments yesterday, he said the CDC director, quote, "made a mistake," and he directly contradicted his own health agency on the timeline.
PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP: We think we can start sometime in October.
GREENE: Again, just worth pointing out that even if some kind of vaccine is ready in October, it would not be available to the public.
MARTIN: We've got NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson with us. Good morning, Mara.
MARA LIASSON, BYLINE: Hi, Rachel.
MARTIN: So the president is clearly pushing for a vaccine before the election. But his own CDC director is saying that is just not plausible, right?
LIASSON: Right. This isn't the first time the president has been at odds with his own administration's scientists. He said the government expects to be able to begin distributing a vaccine, quote, "sometime in October," once approvals are given, although he also said it could be a little later than that. He said at least 100 million doses should be available by the end of this year.
But the issue is that the CDC director, Robert Redfield, said it wouldn't be widely available to the public, as you heard him just say, until the second or third quarter. Trump was asked about this contradiction, and it sounded like he was throwing Redfield under the bus. Here's what he said.
TRUMP: When he said it, I believe he was confused. I'm just telling you - we're ready to go as soon as the vaccine happens.
MARTIN: I mean, that's just not true (laughter). I mean - but even if they come up with the vaccine - and October is pushing it - it has to be manufactured and it has to be distributed.
LIASSON: That's right. And other of the president's scientists, including Dr. Scott Atlas, said exactly that. But the president also contradicted Redfield on masks. You heard Redfield say masks are more important than the vaccine. Donald Trump says, no, that's not true; masks are not as important as the vaccine. Look; the president has been ambivalent at times about masks. And sometimes he's been opposed to them. Yesterday he said masks were a mixed bag.
But the president has said he wants to be a cheerleader - he wants to give people hope. Yesterday he described the vaccine as very strong, powerful and successful. That sounds like a typical Trump pitch. But saying that a vaccine is just around the corner, maybe even before the election is - also has the potential added benefit of helping Donald Trump's campaign. And he has focused on this relentlessly positive message even if it contradicts other parts of his administration.
MARTIN: Which we heard from the Bob Woodward - excerpts of his book, revelations that President Trump downplayed the severity of the virus because he says he was trying to, you know, make people feel better about it.
LIASSON: Right. And you know, the pandemic has now become a real fault line in the culture wars. If you agree with the president that the pandemic is in the rearview mirror, you're on one side of the line. If you agree that it's still a serious public health crisis, you're on another one. Do you think that keeping the economy closed is worse than the virus itself? Where do you stand on masks? It's all become politicized.
MARTIN: NPR's Mara Liasson for us this morning.
Mara, we appreciate it. Thank you.
LIASSON: Thank you.
MARTIN: All right. The Trump administration's attempts to undermine and discredit government scientists does not only come from the president himself.
GREENE: Yeah. A top official at the Department of Health and Human Services is taking a leave of absence after coming under fire for remarks on social media accusing government scientists of sedition. Michael Caputo, a longtime Trump loyalist, was hired just five months ago to serve as the chief spokesperson for HHS.
MARTIN: We've got NPR's Pien Huang with us to talk about this story. Good morning, Pien. Thanks for being here.
PIEN HUANG, BYLINE: Good morning, Rachel. Thanks for having me.
MARTIN: Let's start off. Can you give us some background on Michael Caputo and his role at HHS?
HUANG: Sure. So Michael Caputo is a longtime Republican strategist, and he's worked on President Trump's 2016 election campaign, and he's considered to be very loyal to the president. And back in April, he took a job as the top communications official with the Department of Health and Human Services, which is the department that oversees the CDC, the FDA, the National Institutes of Health, which are all agencies that play key roles in the pandemic response. And he's thought to have been hired to give the president more control over the health department.
MARTIN: And is that what he ended up doing?
HUANG: Well, for a few months now, public health experts have been really worried that Caputo's been working to politicize and discredit government scientists. And a couple concrete things have surfaced recently. So there have been emails that show Caputo and his science adviser, a man named Paul Alexander, were actively trying to edit and delay weekly scientific reports published by the CDC. And Alexander complained that papers about the risk of coronavirus in kids, for instance, were hit pieces on the administration that would undermine the president's school reopening plans. And that has caused a big outcry. Doctors and researchers say it looks like the administration was trying to block science for political gain.
MARTIN: And then tell us about this video that Michael Caputo made - this Facebook video over the weekend. Right?
HUANG: Right, yeah. On Sunday, Caputo went on a rant against government scientists on Facebook Live. He, in the video, described a conspiracy where - in which, quote, "deep state" scientists are keeping Americans sick with COVID-19 to improve the Democrats' chances of winning November's election. He also accused government scientists of sedition and said that they were sacrificing lives for personal gain.
Robert Redfield, the CDC's director, was asked about these yesterday at a hearing, and he echoes what a lot of other people are saying when he says that they're completely false.
REDFIELD: The CDC is made up of thousands of dedicated men and women - highly competent, dedicated 24/7 to use their skills to protect the American public and the world from the health issues.
HUANG: There's no credible evidence for Caputo's claims that scientists are purposefully endangering the public.
MARTIN: So Caputo is now taking this leave of absence. I mean, his role wasn't insignificant. And this is the agency that is leading the push to contain the coronavirus. Where does that leave HHS?
HUANG: Yeah, absolutely. I mean, you know, he was, for five months, the agency's chief spokesperson, and he is now taking a two-month leave of absence for health reasons. That actually means that he's out of the administration through November's elections. And his science adviser, Paul Alexander, is also out. It leaves the deputy, Ryan Murphy, in the position for the time being. And it's been a difficult time for some of these agencies. For example, people who work at CDC have told me that morale is really low because of how their work has been politicized over the past few months.
MARTIN: All right. NPR's Pien Huang for us on this story.
Pien, we appreciate it. Thank you.
HUANG: Thanks for having me.
MARTIN: All right. We're going to turn now to the Gulf Coast. Sally has been downgraded to a tropical depression from a hurricane, but that storm is still bringing incredible rain and heavy floods.
GREENE: Yeah, really. I mean, early yesterday morning, Sally smashed into Gulf Shores, Ala., as a Category 2 hurricane at that point. At least one person is dead. Another is missing. In Pensacola, Fla., hundreds of people had to be rescued after catastrophic flooding trapped them in their homes. The storm has been slowly moving inland, bringing torrential rain that can last for hours on end.
GRANT BROWN: We have power line poles that are laying on the ground with wires over roadways.
GREENE: That's Grant Brown, a longtime resident of Gulf Shores, Ala., and also the town's public information officer. We should say, half a million people lost power here.
MARTIN: For the latest, we have got Sandra Averhart of member station WUWF in Pensacola with us.
Sandra, good morning. Can you just tell us the situation where you are? What's gone on in Pensacola?
SANDRA AVERHART, BYLINE: Well, we started yesterday. Actually, it was the culmination of several days of rainfall. We had torrential rain. We had historic rainfall - more than 20 inches in most areas, up to 30 inches in some isolated areas. In addition to the rough surf and storm surge, this was a flooding event. And at the height of the storm, hundreds of swift water and high water rescues had to be made - the report we got last briefing from Escambia County officials, 277 such rescues.
MARTIN: I mean, storms can be unpredictable. But I mean, was the area prepared for this storm?
AVERHART: Well, we've been watching and waiting for this storm for several days, of course. It was a very slow-moving storm and had stalled. Initially, we were told by weather officials, of course as we were watching the track - it was tracking toward the Mississippi-Louisiana coastline and the Pensacola area was outside the cone - just outside. We knew it was going to be a rain event. Our local officials were ready. They did issue voluntary evacuations that seemed to come a little late in the game for some of our residents. But they were ready. They had crews and equipment on standby, which they told us early on. And they were ready when the storm came.
MARTIN: How long is it going to take to restore power?
AVERHART: Well, that, we don't know. At the height of the storm, about half of Gulf Power Company - that's the company that serves northwest Florida, including Escambia, Santa Rosa counties, Okaloosa - about half of their 470,000 customers were without power, the good number of those in Escambia County.
MARTIN: And Sally isn't the only tropical system threatening the Gulf, right? I mean, what else is out there right now?
AVERHART: Right. This is the height of the storm season, and we've got at least five systems out there in the Atlantic right now that we're watching. And we're almost up to Z. This is the first time since 1971 that we've had these five storms - or had five storms in the Atlantic threatening all at the same time.
MARTIN: Sandra Averhart of member station WUWF giving us the latest on the storm damage in Pensacola, Fla.
Sandra, thanks. We appreciate it.
AVERHART: Thank you. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.
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Climate denialism is anti-science, here's why
It isn't uncommon for climate deniers to paint scientists as "alarmist" or "hysterical". Could this be shaping their view on climate change?
In an interview with Fox News last month, President Donald Trump called Anthony Fauci, the country's top infectious disease expert, an "alarmist," using a pejorative straight from the playbook of those who deny the science behind climate change. Fauci rejected the characterization, describing himself as a "realist."
For anyone paying attention to arguments about climate change over recent decades, Trump's comment sounded awfully familiar: Scientists are alarmists, everything's a hoax, and hysteria abounds. Michael Mann, a climatologist at Penn State University, wrote an op-ed for Newsweek this week drawing parallels between his experience and Fauci's during COVID-19. Science deniers have lobbied attacks on the two public figures, he explained, sending death threats, calling them names, and questioning their expertise.
So what do terms like alarmist and hysteria really mean, where did they come from, and how can people respond to such accusations?
The strategies used to dismiss the threats of climate change and coronavirus follow a similar pattern, and they're employed by many of the same people. It starts with denying the problem exists, as Naomi Oreskes, a professor of history at Harvard who studies disinformation, has explained. Then, people trying to obstruct action deny the severity of the predicament, say it's too hard or too expensive to fix, and complain that their freedom is under threat. Denying the science requires dismissing what scientists are saying, and the easiest way to do that is by questioning their motives, impartiality, and rationality.
"If we don't trust scientists or medical experts because we see them as alarmist or hysterical or as contributing overreaction, then we don't trust the info they're giving us," said Emma Frances Bloomfield, an assistant professor of communication at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Back in the day, alarmism was seen as a virtue. The term traces back to the 1790s, around the time that Edmund Burke, the famous philosopher, sounded the alarm against the French Revolution. "We must continue to be vigorous alarmists," he wrote.
That "sounding the alarm" connotation faded long ago. Now it suggests a person who exaggerates and sensationalizes potential dangers, sowing needless panic. It's a pejorative that doesn't fit most scientists. Research has shown that they're fairly conservative when it comes to the climate crisis. A 2012 study found that their projections have actually underestimated the effects of our overheating planet, like the potential disintegration of the West Antarctic ice sheet. The authors of that study, including Oreskes, wrote that "scientists are biased not toward alarmism but rather the reverse: toward cautious estimates." They called this tendency "erring on the side of least drama," and suggested that the tendency to downplay future changes comes from a pressure to appear objective.
The commonly held notion of what a scientist should be was articulated by Robert K. Merton, an American sociologist who outlined the "ideal" expectations for scientists in the 1940s. Merton called for scientists to be unbiased, rational, and to stay clear of conflicts of interest.
Words like overreacting emphasize emotion, detracting from scientific credibility. "Being emotional is something that we try to keep away from science," Bloomfield said. "When you think about scientists really caring about something, it violates those expectations we have that scientists are balanced and they only look at facts."
Take hysteria, which comes from the Greek word for uterus. (Plato and Hippocrates thought the womb lurched up and down in the body, causing erratic behaviour, emotional outbursts, and insanity among womankind.) The term has a dark and complicated history, but suffice it to say that it made an appearance in 17th-century witch trials, and much later on, during some pretty frustrating visits to the doctor.
"It's feminizing science as a way to discredit it," Bloomfield said. Another word to keep an eye out for is shrill, an adjective describing a high-pitched, piercing voice that became a way to stigmatize women (think Hillary Clinton) and sometimes scientists, too. To counter these attacks, Bloomfield said that one effective strategy is to follow Fauci's example: Reject the characterisation and substitute your own word, like realist instead of alarmist.
Another strategy is to ask questions that challenge assumptions. Bloomfield suggests asking something like, "How many people would have to die for you to be alarmed?" With 164,000 deaths and climbing, more Americans have died from COVID-19 than were killed in World War I. The question forces people to think for themselves and draw their own conclusions.
Original source: https://grist.org