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Sleeper Train Bucket List: Empire Builder to Portland and Seattle
Posted on March 2, 2021 February 28, 2021 by Kyle Bell
Marvel at the majesty of the northern United States as you travel over mountain passes, through alpine valleys and past 7,000-year-old glaciers. Glide by buttes and bluffs, along mountain streams and across the Mighty Mississippi.
– Amtrak.com
Amtrak's Empire Builder traverses the US from Chicago to Seattle and Portlane, OR. One of its biggest draws is that it runs through Glacier National Park. With two stops in in Glacier, it's one of the most popular methods of accessing this remote destination. As with all Amtrak trains west of Chicago, the Empire Builder has a domed lounge car in addition to sleeper service.
It's on our list because neither of us have been to the Pacific Northwest, nor have we taken a sleeper car. Plus the scenery looks great. At 45+ hours total travel time, it should let us know if we like the experience enough to attempt a week on the Trans-Siberian route.
Service / Route
The route taken by the Empire Builder begins in Chicago, IL and travels for over 2,000 miles, traversing Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Idaho, and Washington / Oregon. In Spokane, in Eastern Washington, the routes of the Seattle- and Portland-bound trains diverge and each arrives separately at its destination.
Schedule / Cost / How to Book
As of February 2021, the Empire Builder offers service 3 times per week, Westbound on Monday, Thursday, and Saturday. It was a daily service prior to COVID-related service reductions and will hopefully be again in the near future.
A brief search has sleeping accommodations for the 46-hour trip starting at $527 / 18k AGR points for a single-occupancy roomette or $772 for double-occupancy. This rate includes all meals and access to the station lounge. Bedrooms, with in-suite restroom, sink, and shower, start at $2215.
Photo credit for cover image.
Our first and hopefully not final Frontier flight
Posted on January 1, 2018 January 1, 2018 by Kyle Bell
The price was shocking: $285 for two round-trip tickets from Long Island to Orlando, Florida for Christmas. At this late date, every other airline was nearly $400 or more for one ticket! The last straw was when I realized that United, the cheapest "normal" option, was now charging for carry-on bags in Economy.
There's always a catch – and there was a catch or two, including a new airport even further away than usual – but why not? Every other airline is charging a-la-carte these days. I figured for half the price it was worth a shot.
Here's the cost breakdown for the full round-trip:
Airfare: $285 ($142.50 x 2)
Carry-on: $70 ($35 x 2)
LIRR to Ronkonkoma: $55 ($13.75 x 4 one-way off-peak fares)
Taxi to/from airport: $20 ($5 x 4)
Frontier Airlines?
Originally founded as a regional airline out of Denver, Frontier is an ultra-low cost airline that flies to over 50 destinations across the US and several other neighboring countries. The airline runs flights back-to-back without any spare airplanes, pilots, or time, which we found out the hard way.
It's part of the new wave of charge-for-everything airlines and on top of its low base fee it charges for carry-ons (in addition to checked bags). Its seats, from our experience, resemble picnic chairs and are non-reclinable and without any seat-back entertainment.
It was cheap and safe, though read on for the details.
The biggest difference between the usual JFK departure is the time spent on LIRR and cost of tickets, though with hourly service to Ronkonkoma and additional service during rush-hour, it wasn't an inconvenience.
Departing on the 3:55pm off-peak train from Penn Station, we arrived to Ronkonkoma, which is adjacent to MacArthur / Islip Airport by 5:30. Taxi-shuttles wait at the station exit to ferry passengers to the airport terminal for $5 a head. A seamless transfer really, even better than the JFK AirTrain.
By this point we were an hour past JFK, but given that we usually budget an hour to get there and $10-15 for a peak ticket on LIRR and AirTrain, this trip wasn't much longer or more expensive.
We were at the significantly less congested security checkpoint by 5:45pm. By now you'll notice that most of our travel "success" stories, this one included, involve skipping security or customs at JFK.
The first message arrived to us while on the train to the airport: our 7:15 flight was now delayed until 8:35. Not the best, but ok. By the time we got to the gate, they were expecting a 9:30 departure. Once we boarded the plane, we sat for another hour before takeoff as they fixed the lavatory and filled out paperwork.
Total flight time: 2 hours 20 minutes. Total delay: 3 hours 15 minutes.
Upon arrival in Orlando, possibly due to the unplanned 1am arrival, our plane was at some obscure and far-away gate that took a bus and a shuttle train to reach the main terminal.
Returning from Orlando to Islip, we arrived to the airport, hustled through a daunting security line in 30 minutes, and arrived to our gate for an on-time departure.
That is, for Frontier, on-time is an hour late. We waited in the plane for an hour while a faulty overhead bin lock was secured with packing tape and the requisite paperwork was filled out.
Arriving to Islip, we caught a taxi and made the 9:11pm train back to Penn Station with time to spare. Ronkonkoma has hourly train service, even on nights and weekends, which beats pretty much everything except the A train, plus it's nicer than the subway.
Frontier got us to our destination cheaply and safely, though not at the same level of comfort or predictability as really any other carrier we've flown, low-cost carriers included. It was fine for the short hop to Florida, and made sense for the savings alone.
In the end, Frontier even apologized to us for the 3-hour delay by sending us each a $50 travel voucher. The catch is, we have to use it on Frontier!
We'll give it another chance, but we won't use the airline for any cases in which we have to be comfortable for a long time, catch a connection, or be on time for anything, e.g. our "extreme getaway" flight to Barbados that we did on JetBlue.
Weekend Getaway to Storm King Art Center
Posted on July 23, 2017 July 23, 2017 by Kyle Bell
Imagine you could book a semi-organized day trip outside New York without getting in a car or bus. Well, you can, with Metro-North Getaways, which offer round-trip on the train and discount museum and event tickets. We've been big fans of the Metro-North option for some time, having done the Farm Fresh tours twice, Dia:Beacon, and an impromptu trip to Peekskill.
We've been watching Master of None on Netflix and it reminded us that we really needed to get back Upstate to visit Storm King. This giant sculpture garden set in the Hudson Valley is even more impressive than what you've seen on film. It's expansive, majestic, pastoral, and it made one of the most beautiful sunny day escapes from NYC we've had to-date.
Metro-North to Beacon is 10 miles from Storm King across the Hudson. It takes around 1.5 hours. Normally it's $33 round-trip off-peak and the Storm King ticket is $18. Through Getaways, it's $40.50 for both (saving $10). If you leave on a Saturday or Sunday, you'll be on a packed train with day hikers heading to Garrison, Breakneck Ridge, and the surrounding area, which are all in the vicinity of Beacon. It's a cool vibe. Get there early to get a good seat or just head towards the front two cars of the train. If it's your thing, you can drink coffee, beer, or eat on the train as well. Picnic!
Once you arrive at Beacon, check out the town (see my post for some ideas). You can check out the beautiful Dia:Beacon modern art museum which is in a former factory and also makes use of the light and shadow of the Hudson Valley to accentuate its artwork. Call a cab or use a ride-hailing app, which are newly legal in Upstate New York. Ours took 20 minutes to arrive and it was around a 25-minute, $25 ride. We had no problem finding a cab in both directions, as it's a popular destination for day-trippers. It's also not far from Stewart Airport, which just started offering cut-rate flights to Europe on Norwegian (see link).
Storm King is huge, so you can walk, rent a bike on-site, or take their tour tram. We took the tram, got off on the far end, and walked back. It took quite a while to see everything, when we return we'd leave at least 3 hours to see it all. Fridays and Saturdays in the summer they're open until 8pm, while they close at 5:30 on Sunday.
It's really worth seeing rather than explaining, so the rest of this post is photos.
Hopping cheaply across Europe by air and rail
Posted on August 13, 2016 by Kyle Bell
Here's some good news about your dream trip across Europe. With a little advanced planning, and carry-on luggage, you can get there and get around fairly affordably. After months of planning and procrastination, our full Europe itinerary is now booked. Here are the details of our grand tour with some super secret discount tips at the end.
With the recent boom in discount airlines, flights in Europe are often as cheap or cheaper than a train or bus. These companies make their money by charging extra for everything from seat assignments, to checked baggage, to food, so check the fine print before you book. Norwegian follows the same principles but covers to and from the US.
While they may give you flexibility, Eurail passes were prohibitively expensive for our itinerary, so instead we've booked two one-way flights and a bunch of intra-Europe travel. We got the cheapest non-flexible tickets, booking everything outright, so we better not miss any connections!
Trains are great, but this was really about getting the most reliable, efficient, and inexpensive trip from A to B, regardless of mode. For the cheapest tickets, find the carrier's direct website for the ticket in question (e.g. DeutscheBahn, Eurostar, Thalys, etc.), and book early. Most bookings open 3 months in advance, though the Eurostar can be booked 180 days early.
I'd say we did a great job at choosing our stops. The only ticket that I wished we had bought much earlier was the Thalys, which started around $50 per person and went up to $90 by the time we bought it. Oops.
Everything else we purchased recently, 4-6 weeks prior to travel. Here is our itinerary:
New York (JFK) to Copenhagen on Norwegian 4098 NOK ($249 per person)*
Copenhagen to Berlin on EasyJet 25 EUR
Berlin to Hameln by DeutscheBahn 24 EUR
Driving to Leer, Germany
Driving to Groningen, Netherlands
Groningen to Amsterdam by train 25.50 EUR
Amsterdam to Paris by Thalys 80 EUR
Paris to London on the Eurostar 41.50 GBP*
London to New York on Norwegian 4828 NOK ($294)*
That's $543 pp for US-Europe flights, $226 per person for intra-Europe travel
* These tickets can be purchased in the native currency for a significant discount over the dollar-denominated amount on their site.
Super Secret Discount Tips
In the case of Norwegian, on their norwegian.no site we saved almost $100 per ticket, if memory serves. The layout is the same as the US page, but everything is in Norwegian, so you have to use Google Translate or keep a page open in both languages simultaneously to know where to click. For an extra 30 minutes of annoyance, we saved $200.
For the above flight and for any train tickets, get yourself a credit card like Chase Sapphire that doesn't charge foreign currency fees, which can be as high as 3%. It really adds up when you're buying tickets and booking hotels or hostels.
The Eurostar tickets were $65 if purchased in dollars or 41.50 GBP ($54) if purchased from eurostar.co.uk. If you sign up for an account and give a US address, you won't be able to get this discount. They also charge extra for using a credit card, so use a foreign fee-free debit card like the one from Charles Schwab.
I'll have more updates in the coming weeks as we try to complete this itinerary with no hiccups. Safe travels!
Featured image: View from Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Paris, by Ed Webster [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.
Sleeper Train Bucket List: Norway and the Arctic Circle
The Nordland Railway (or Northern Railway) runs between the historic city of Trondheim and the beautiful Northern town of Bodø. The 729 km. long railway crosses the Arctic Circle and takes you through stunning Norwegian scenery. The whole journey takes about 10 hours. The train departs twice a day, and also runs as a night train with sleeping compartments.
– NSB.no
Cross the Arctic Circle, visit the land of the Midnight Sun in mid-June or see the Northern Lights in complete winter darkness. The Nordland Railway runs from Trondheim to Bodo, Norway.
A word of caution, I've heard from others that photographing the Northern Lights isn't as easy as it sounds, so plan on a tripod and a camera with a long exposure.
If you're looking to get there and take the train one way, Norwegian Air Shuttle offers flights from London (Gatwick) to both Trondheim and Bodo.
You may want to check out this or this fantastical Netflix series to hype yourself up for the trip.
In its 452-miles route, the Nordland Railway passes through 44 stations, over 293 bridges and through 154 tunnels. It is the longest rail line in Norway, operating twice-daily passenger service, and is also used for shipment of iron ore and lumber.
The overnight trip from Trondheim in the south to Bodo in the north lasts over 9 1/2 hours, from 11:40pm until 9:15am. A second afternoon train departs daily at 7:38am and makes the trip one hour quicker. Service is also available in the opposite direction, leaving at 9:10pm and lasting 10 1/2 hours.
Discount tickets are 249 NOK each and sleeper compartment (for two) is 900 NOK. In total, two one-way tickets with 2-person sleeper compartment cost 1398 NOK ($165 USD).
Photo credit: By Kabelleger / David Gubler (http://www.bahnbilder.ch) (Own work: http://bahnbilder.ch/picture/3359) [GFDL or CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons]
Bucket List: Jazz Train from New York to Montreal
Posted on May 3, 2016 July 18, 2016 by Kyle Bell
Featured image by Bublegun (Own work) [CC BY 3.0], via Wikimedia Commons
New York, en wagon piano bar!
Imagine some of the nicest scenery in the East flashing by the window as you're serenaded by live music and wined and dined. I first heard about this unique year-round service from a post on And North.The Jazz Train piggybacks on Amtrak's Adirondack from New York-Montreal, an 11-hour trip from Penn Station through the Hudson Valley and the Adirondacks, ending in the capital of Quebec. Unlike Amtrak's Western routes, this voyage is daytime-only and much slower than the drive, so it's best for those with the time to enjoy. As far as I'm concerned, it's well worth the time for this classy, photogenic, and stress-free travel.
If only they could fulfill their stated intention to run a similar service as an overnight (sleeper car) excursion, I imagine it would be wildly popular.
As expected by the name, the train voyage includes a three-part jazz performance. Given the all-day length of the trip, it includes breakfast/brunch, lunch, and dinner, as well as drinks, both coffee in the morning and cocktails during the day. The menu is mouth-watering — starting the day with quiche du jour and French croissants is traveling in style.
The food includes, among other delicacies, two staples that Montreal and New York have in common: bagels (with maple smoked salmon), and smoked meat, a Montreal specialty similar to New York's pastrami. Desserts are plentiful and heavy on the maple syrup ingredients.
For more on the itinerary and menu, visit the Jazz Train site here.
The Jazz Train travels on Amtrak's Adirondack route, which begins at New York Penn Station, passes along the Hudson, through Albany and Lake George, and alongside New York's Adirondack State Park, alongside Lake Champlain.
Generally, the train departs departs New York on Thursdays and Sundays and returns on Fridays and Mondays. This means you'll have a Thursday night to Monday morning stay in Montreal coming from New York, or a Friday night to Sunday morning stay in New York if beginning in Montreal. Labor Day has a special Tuesday morning return to NYC.
Pricing is $200 US one-way and $330 US round-trip, though you may also choose to take the plain vanilla Amtrak Adirondack,starting at $69 one-way. The Adirondack is a once-daily departure from New York at 8:15am, arriving in Montreal at 7:11pm. Return trips from Montreal depart daily at 10:20am and arrive at 8:50pm.
See more on schedule and pricing here.
The ultimate goal of the Jazz Train is to restart overnight service between the two cities, hence their web address, trainhotel.ca. Amtrak once ran an overnight sleeper car service from New York to Montreal via Vermont. This unique international service, which was formerly known as the Montrealer, was discontinued in the 1990s and rebranded as the Vermonter and now terminates in St. Albans in Northern Vermont.
The daytime Adirondack route runs entirely through New York State. Prior to 1991, all New York State-and Canada-bound trains departed from the ever photogenic Grand Central Terminal.
Bucket List: EuroStar from Paris to London
Posted on April 7, 2016 April 7, 2016 by Kyle Bell
Featured image: Fraselpantz at en.wikipedia [CC0], via Wikimedia Commons
The high-speed EuroStar train crosses the English channel en-route between the French and British capitals. It is blindingly fast, direct, and happens to link the last two destinations of our planned summer's trip to Europe.
If there is a single simple two-hour train ride that I'm looking forward to without reservations, it is this one: it's iconic. (more…)
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February's 10 Best Stories in Travel
Posted on March 3, 2016 March 25, 2016 by Kyle Bell
I'm back to share my favorite stories of the month from February 2016, including globe-trotting fish, freight-train travel across Africa, myths and facts about the Zika Virus, and a documentary about a continent-spanning road trip. Read on for the scoop.
Is Farmed Salmon Really Salmon?
The staple fish is having an identity crisis.
http://nautil.us/issue/30/identity/is-farmed-salmon-really-salmon
Love smoked salmon? Me too. Turns out there's a lot more to it than pink-fleshed fish swimming upstream past grizzly bears. It's a complex system, and humans have changed it irreparably, even for those fish labeled "wild".
For us, the salmon is an icon of the wild, braving thousand-mile treks through rivers and oceans, leaping up waterfalls to spawn or be caught in the clutches of a grizzly bear. The name "salmon" is likely derived from the Latin word, "salire," to leap. But it's a long way from a leaping wild salmon to schools of fish swimming in circles in dockside pens. Most of the salmon we eat today don't leap and don't migrate.
Riding the Mauritania Railway
Photographer Jody MacDonald crossed the Sahara by iron train in search of adventure—and surf.
http://adventure-journal.com/2016/02/riding-the-mauritania-railway/
Posts like this train-bum ride across the desert remind me that I need to focus more on train travel and amazing opportunities like this. On my first trip abroad, to Ecuador, I rode on top of a train like this, and it was quite the experience when it derailed on the side of a mountain. If I can find the old photos, that will be a topic for another day.
The Infamous Isla Refinery of Curaçao
http://curacao.for91days.com/the-infamous-isla-refinery-of-curacao/ It looks like a little bit of the Jersey Turnpike or South Philly, only set in the Caribbean. Industrial operations on this scale are impressive, even if they are rusting in the salt air and are significantly worse on the environment than eco-tourism. The island was a focal point in World War II for its role in delivering petroleum to the Allies.
In Italy, an Orange to the Face
http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2016/in-italy-an-orange-to-the-face/
For those of you hoping to make it to one of those ancient fruit-throwing or bull-running festivities for some light and possibly welt-inducing fun, here's another option.
…unlike the Spaniards of Buñol, these revelers don't throw tomatoes or other soft fruit at each other. In Ivrea, oranges are the official projectiles of Historical Carnival. Skip the red hat, and there's a good chance you'll be hit in the face by one.
What Travelers Need to Know About the Zika Virus
http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/05/what-travelers-need-to-know-about-the-zika-virus/
http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/08/tips-for-protecting-yourself-against-the-zika-virus/
We're about to travel to a country with active cases of the Zika Virus and there's a lot of misinformation out there. Did you know that the virus is only a danger to pregnant women in the first trimester and only shows symptoms in 1 of 5 infected? Read these links and calm yourself down a bit.
A Story About Love and Bells
http://www.ottsworld.com/blogs/story-about-love-and-bells-saxony-germany/
Happy belated Valentine's Day! Read this beautiful story of a boy and his love for church bells, which he now shares with his family in their very unique Quasimodo-esque residence.
The Pros and Cons of Various Forms of Snow Travel
http://adventure-journal.com/2016/02/the-pros-and-cons-of-various-forms-of-snow-travel
This had me cracking up near the end. If you've lived in a snowy climate, you've tried most of these at one point another and will soon be laughing as well.
Sledding, Runner Sled
Pros: Classic, easy to steer, photogenic
Cons: Hard to fit more than one person on sled; accidentally ramming into an unsuspecting sledder at full speed usually = emergency room visit; when unmanned, becomes a high-velocity death missile missile hungry to destroy ankles and shins
Fathom's 24 Best Indie Travel Guides
http://fathomaway.com/postcards/quirk/24-best-indie-travel-guides/
Looking for a beautiful gift for a design, travel and fashion lover? The printed guidebooks and maps in this list are like tiny works of art, with the benefit that they may help you navigate some of the tourist hotspots they cover. Very heavy on coverage for New York, Paris, London, and the like. (I wasn't paid for this post, they're just really nice guides)
The Forgotten Trains of India
http://roadsandkingdoms.com/2016/the-forgotten-trains-of-india/
The Gwalior Sheopur Kalan Passenger train is one of India's many train routes, only this one trundles slowly across the countryside on narrow-gauge tracks. The author includes beautiful photos of landscapes, fellow passengers, and train-surfing riders.
The Road to Mongolia
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI-x35CMXgc
Given that it's on my travel bucket list, I've seen a lot of Mongol Rally videos. This one takes the cake with thoughtful editing and after-the-fact interviews, it gives you a great sense of the challenge and enjoyment of a trip 6,000+ miles from Britain to Mongolia in a crappy car with your friends.


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STRONG MOVE: DR. EDWARD STRONG, Ph.D, JOINS iAssay, Inc.
San Diego – Sept 1, 2020
Dr. Edward Strong, the geneticist who co-founded and served as CEO of MedGenomics, Inc., has been named Scientific Director of iAssay, Inc. Strong will guide the researchers and engineers who are developing iAssay's product line.
iAssay is creating a suite of tools that support remote testing for COVID-19 and other medical conditions directly from patients' homes, physicians' offices, workplaces, and other locations. The data gathered by an iAssay device is uploaded to the Cloud, and instantly becomes available for evaluation by physicians and clinicians. The data will also become part of the anonymized Big Data stream for use in a multitude of applications, including epidemiological studies.
"iAssay is committed to empowering rapid, secure, accurate diagnostics, delivered from any remote location," Strong said. "This will greatly increase access to healthcare for all Americans, including the homebound and other underserved populations."
Strong holds a Ph.D from Cornell University. He is a former NIH Fellow who contributed to work that won awards from the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Strong has translated scientific breakthroughs into meaningful products throughout his career.
At MedGenomics, Inc., Strong helped consumers understand the real-world implications of genetic tests. Recently, as interim CEO of LifeGenomix, Inc., his team repurposed genetic testing capabilities originally designed for human athletic performance for use in non-human markets. In so doing, he was able to demonstrate proof of concept to support equine purchasing and training decisions. Reviving operations, he led the charge for implementation of an integrated online marketplace to transact orders and schedule site visits for collection. LifeGenomix's system was designed to create smarter, healthier, and more responsible breeding and veterinary care programs.
"Ed is a rare individual, combining world-class intelligence with a burning desire to help others," said Lonnie Adelman, founder and CEO of iAssay, Inc. "He'll lead a team that is passionate about meeting the ever-increasing health care needs of a diverse population."
Sometimes compared to the "tricorder" in the "Star Trek" TV series and movies, iAssay's hand-held device serves multiple purposes. Lightweight and portable, it can be used by healthcare providers to analyze a patient sample of blood, urine, or saliva, then relay key diagnostic information to the Cloud. Within seconds, clinicians can view data on secure Internet portals.
The versatile system is meant for use with patients at home and other "Point of Care" (POC) settings, eliminating the transportation of patient samples to labs. Instead, iAssay's system sends test results to the Cloud, quickly supporting a doctor's diagnosis, and potentially saving patients' lives who before iAssay might have waited hours or days for a test result and subsequent diagnosis.
Dr. Strong summed it up, "iAssay is mission-driven to enable faster, more accurate POC diagnostics, and has the incredible engineering and product development team necessary. I am thrilled to join the team and look forward to building and executing on our opportunities together with the growing number of rapid diagnostic assays."

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Return to the present day, meanwhile, and said Nordic songstress is back on the line to �B&S� from her native Scandinavia; her call coinciding with the release of �Who`s That Girl� - prestigiously the fifth single to be taken from her latest album, titled simply 'Robyn'. With said LP having last August spawned the UK Number One smash 'With Every Heartbeat', another significant difference this time around is that the self-titled album in question impressively last year also marked the first UK release on Robyn`s own, independent label Konichiwa Records. A company she initially started setting up just six months after controversially, and unexpectedly, buying herself out of her worldwide deal with Jive/BMG back in 2004.
Born Robin Miriam Carlsson in Stockholm in 1979, Robyn spent the first seven years of her life touring with her director father and actress mother in their travelling theatre company. At the age of 13 she was discovered by Swedish pop singer Meja, while singing a sad, self-written song about her parents` divorce in a school workshop - and was immediately signed to BMG. A product of a then-thriving mid-Nineties Stockholm soul scene (which also boasted Titiyo, Blacknuss and Jennifer Brown), Robyn`s aforementioned, multi-million-selling debut album catapulted her to bona fide international stardom; the melodic urban pop of its singles 'Do You Know What It Takes' and 'Show Me Love' penetrating the US And UK Top Tens respectively.


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Pope advances sainthood causes of two women and 11 men, including a miracle by Blessed Charles de Foucauld
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Saint of the desert: Blessed Charles de Foucauld in an undated photo. Photo: CNS
Saint of the desert: Blessed Charles de Foucauld in an undated photo. Pope Francis has recognised a miracle attributed to the intercession of Blessed de Foucauld, clearing the way for his canonisation. Photo: CNS
POPE Francis has advanced the sainthood causes of two women and 11 men, including a miracle attributed to Blessed Charles de Foucauld.
In a meeting with Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes, the Pope also authorised decrees recognizing miracles attributed to Blessed Cesar de Bus, founder of the Fathers of Christian Doctrine, and Blessed Maria Domenica Mantovani, co-founder and superior general of the Little Sisters of the Holy Family.
The Pope's recognition of the miracles ascribed to Blesseds Charles de Foucauld, Cesar de Bus and Maria Domenica Mantovani clear the way for their canonisation.
Born in Strasbourg, France, in 1858, Blessed de Foucauld lost his faith during his adolescence.
However, during a trip to Morocco, he saw how Muslims expressed their faith, so he returned to the church.
His rediscovery of his Christian faith prompted him to join Trappist monasteries for seven years in France and Syria, before choosing to live a life of prayer and adoration alone.
After his ordination to the priesthood in 1901, he chose to live among the poor and finally settled in Tamanrasset, Algeria, until 1916, when he was killed by a band of marauders.
Although he lived several centuries before Blessed de Foucauld, Blessed de Bus was born in France and, like his compatriot, also lived his early adulthood away from his faith.
After returning to the church, he entered the priesthood and was ordained in 1582.
Ten years later, he founded the Fathers of Christian Doctrine, a religious congregation dedicated to education, pastoral ministry and catechesis. He died in Avignon, France, in 1607.
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From the age of 15, Blessed Mantovani, born in 1862 in Castelletto di Brenzone, Italy, played an active role in her parish.
Her spiritual director, Fr Giuseppe Nascimbeni, encouraged her to teach catechism and visit the sick.
In 1892, Blessed Mantovani co-founded the Little Sisters of the Holy Family with Father Nascimbeni and became the congregation's first superior general.
During her time leading the congregation, she dedicated her life to serving the poor and needy as well as assisting the sick and the elderly.
After her death in 1934, the Little Sisters of the Holy Family spread throughout Europe, Africa and South America.
The other decrees approved by Pope Francis May 27 recognised:
| The miracle needed for the beatification of Father Michael McGivney, founder of the Knights of Columbus. He was born in 1852 and died in 1890.
| The miracle needed for the beatification of Venerable Pauline-Marie Jaricot, foundress of the Society of the Propagation of the Faith and of the Association of the Living Rosary. She was born in 1799 and died in 1862.
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43rd EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Call for Full papers
Call for Short papers
Call for Demo papers
Call for Doctoral Consortium papers
Call for Industry Day presentations
Call for Reproducibility Track papers
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ECIR 2021 will host five workshops
ROMCIR
Text2Story
BIAS: 2nd International Workshop on Algorithmic Bias in Search and Recommendation
Acronym: BIAS@ECIR2021
Ludovico Boratto, EURECAT, Centre Tecnologic de Catalunya – Barcelona, Spain
Stefano Faralli, University of Rome Unitelma Sapienza – Rome, Italy
Mirko Marras, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) – Lausanne, Switzerland
Giovanni Stilo, University of L'Aquila – L'Aquila, Italy
Website URL: https://biasinrecsys.github.io/ecir2021/
Providing search and recommendation algorithms that are efficient and effective has been the main goal for both the industry and academia. However, such algorithms lead to models, trained on historical data, that might exacerbate existing biases and/or user behavior. In order to provide all the stakeholders involved in the information retrieval process with more equitable results, being able to assess and mitigate these biases is a primary property for search and recommendation algorithms. In this workshop, we aim to collect novel contributions in this emerging field and to provide a common ground for interested researchers and practitioners.
Time zone: Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
Submissions: January 4, 2021 January 11, 2021
Notifications: February 8, 2021 February 15, 2021
Camera-Ready: March 1, 2021
Workshop: April 1, 2021 (provisional) – ONLINE EVENT
All deadlines are 11:59pm, AoE time (Anywhere on Earth).
For submission details see the BIAS website
BIR: 11th International Workshop on Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval
Acronym: BIR 2021
Ingo Frommholz, University of Bedfordshire, UK
Philipp Mayr, GESIS – Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Cologne, Germany
Guillaume Cabanac, University of Toulouse, France
Website URL: https://sites.google.com/view/bir-ws/bir-2021
The Bibliometric-enhanced Information Retrieval workshop series (BIR) at ECIR goes into its 11th iteration. In this workshop, we will tackle issues related to academic search, at the intersection between Information Retrieval and Bibliometrics. We strive to get the 'retrievalists' and 'citationists' active in both academia and the industry together, who are developing search engines and recommender systems for scholarly search.
Paper submissions: 5 January 2021 19 January 2021
Notifications: 5 February 2021 19 February 2021
For submission details see the BIR website
MICROS: 1st Workshop on Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems
Acronym: MICROS
Ida Mele (IASI-CNR Rome, IT)
Cristina Ioana Muntean (ISTI-CNR Pisa, IT)
Mohammad Aliannejadi (University of Amsterdam, NL)
Nikos Voskarides (University of Amsterdam, NL)
Website URL: https://micros2021.github.io/
The 1st Edition of the Workshop on "Mixed-Initiative ConveRsatiOnal Systems" (MICROS@ECIR2021) aims at investigating and collecting novel ideas and contributions in the field of conversational systems. These systems provide a conversational interface for different tasks ranging from seeking information to performing e-commerce transactions.
MICROS will have a particular focus on mixed-initiative conversational systems. These proactive systems do not simply propose answers but also provide possible interpretations for ambiguous and vague requests.
We invite people working on conversational search as well as interactive recommendation to send us their position and research papers. We welcome submissions on approaches for conversational search, recommendation, evaluation techniques, data creation and curation, as well as domain-specific applications for conversational systems. All the accepted papers will be presented as contribution talks and will have the opportunity to be published in the CEUR proceedings. The workshop will also have keynote talks by experienced researchers and a panel discussion to share insights about conversational systems.
Submission deadline: December 20, 2020 [EXTENDED] January 22, 2021
Notification: February 5, 2021
Workshop day: April 1, 2021 ONLINE EVENT
For submission details see the MICROS website
ROMCIR: Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval
Acronym: ROMCIR 2021
Fabio Saracco, IMT School For Advanced Studies Lucca
Marco Viviani, University of Milano-Bicocca
Website URL: https://romcir2021.disco.unimib.it/
The ROMCIR (Reducing Online Misinformation through Credible Information Retrieval) 2021 workshop, as part of the satellite events of the ECIR (European Conference on Information Retrieval) 2021 conference, aims at providing access to users to credible and/or verified information online, to mitigate the information disorder phenomenon. By "information disorder" we mean all forms of communication pollution, from misinformation made out of ignorance, to intentional sharing of false content. In this context, all those approaches that can serve to the assessment of the credibility of information circulating online and in social media, in particular, find their place. This topic is very broad, as it concerns different contents (e.g., Web pages, news, reviews, medical information, online accounts, etc.), different Web and social media platforms (e.g., microblogging platforms, social networking services, social question-answering systems, etc.), and different purposes (e.g., identifying false information, accessing information based on its credibility, retrieving credible information, etc.).
Submission Deadline: January 04, 2021
Decision Notifications: Feb 5, 2021
Early Registration Deadline: Feb 10, 2021
Camera-ready: March 01, 2021
Conference: March 28 – April 1, 2021
Workshop: April 1, 2021
For submission details see the ROMCIR website
Text2Story: 4th International Workshop on Narrative Extraction from Texts
Acronym: Text2Story 2021
Ricardo Campos [INESC TEC; Ci2 – Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Tomar, Portugal]
Alípio Jorge [INESC TEC; University of Porto]
Adam Jatowt [University of Innsbruck, Austria]
Sumit Bhatia [IBM Research AI, India]
Mark Finlayson [Florida International University, USA]
Website URL: https://text2story21.inesctec.pt/
Although the understanding of natural language has improved over the last couple of years – with research works emerging on the grounds of information extraction and text mining – the problem of constructing consistent narrative structures is yet to be solved. In the fourth edition of the Text2Story workshop, we aim to foster the discussion of recent advances in the link between Information Retrieval (IR) and formal narrative representations from texts. Specifically, we aim to provide a common forum to consolidate the multi-disciplinary efforts and foster discussions to identify the wide-ranging issues related to the narrative extraction task.
Submission deadline: January 11th, 2021 January 18th, 2021 January 25th, 2021
Acceptance Notification Date: February 5th, 2021 February 12th, 2021
Camera-ready copies: February 28th, 2021
Workshop: April 1st, 2021
For submission details see Text2Story website
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