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The Battle of Cowan's Ford
February 1, 1781 at Huntersville, Lincoln, and Mecklenberg County border, North Carolina
The Battle of Cowan's Ford was also called the Battle of McCown's Ford. It was a battle in the Southern Theater of Cornwallis's 1780–1782 Campaign that eventually led to the British Army's surrender at Yorktown. It was fought at Cowan's ford on the Catawba River in northwestern Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, between a force of about 5,000 British and fewer than a thousand Americans who were attempting to slow the British advance across the river.
Facts about the Battle of Cowan's Ford
Armies - American Forces was commanded by Gen. William L. Davidson and consisted of about 900 Soldiers. British Forces was commanded by Gen. Lord William Cornwallis and consisted of about 5,000 Soldiers.
Casualties - American casualties were about 4 killed and 26 wounded. British casualties were 31 killed and 35 wounded.
Outcome - The result of the battle was a British victory. The battle was part of the Southern Theater 1780-83.
Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis and his army of British and Tories successfully crossed the Catawba River, defeating the Patriot forces of Brigadier General William L. Davidson, Major Joseph Graham, Colonel William Polk, and Lieutenant Thomas Davidson. Davidson, perhaps the most loved of all North Carolina's commanders, was killed.
Cornwallis' venturing into North Carolina had been disastrous. The carefully thought out southern campaign upon which he had embarked so hopefully was shattered never to be reshaped. The backbone of the British offensive against the South was broken.
Cornwallis had envisioned a three-pronged drive northward to overpower what he considered would be feeble resistance in North Carolina. He had ordered the capture of Wilmington, to be held as a port city through which he could receive supplies and also as a right wing protection of his own forces in their drive toward Charlotte and on to Hillsboro .
To the west he had dispatched Major Patrick Ferguson from Fort Ninety-Six to move northwestward to enlist Tory supporters and subdue the Americans. Cleared of resistance on the wings and in the rear, Cornwallis would sweep through North Carolina and roll on into Virginia to end all of the American resistance to His Majesty's government.
That had been Cornwallis' plan. But now, hardly more than 5 weeks after he had left Camden, his grand strategy was a shambles. The capture of Wilmington would come too late to help him . To the west, Ferguson was dead and buried at Kings Mountain and his forces, regulars and Tories, were dead, wounded or captured. And in the center his Lordship, chagrined, fearful, bitter, was running southward in disorganized retreat.
The correspondent of the "Pennsylvania Packet" in a subsequent analysis summarized the British's ill-fated 2 weeks in Charlotte :
"Whilst the enemy lay at Charlotte they were confined within their lines by our riflemen, who nabbed them if they set out their heads. In short, his lordship never found himself so far from home as at that place; and it may appear strange that although we were more than two weeks in surprizing distance with our raw militia, yet the enemy never attempted it, owing, I suppose to the great attention of our commander in preventing them from obtaining intelligence, and moving his troops every night."
The British had left Charlotte in virtual panic; in their rush to leave the camp at Barnett's mill they had abandoned some twenty wagons, a large quantity of clothing, many tents and other equipment, and a number of guns. They had heard that Davidson had some 5,000 soldiers and was pursuing them; actually the brigadier general had hardly more than 300 men, but Davie with a part of Davidson's cavalry was harassing the fleeing Redcoats and the number of their pursuers must have seemed frightfully large.
Davidson wanted to attack Cornwallis, particularly after a heavy rain had swollen the Catawba with Tarleton's Tory forces on the west side and Cornwallis' not yet across. He sent a message to Sumner suggesting that they join in an assault on the British, but the rain slowed Sumner and Cornwallis outdistanced his pursuers and withdrew to Winnsboro, where 70 miles south of Mecklenburg's pestiferous hornets he established headquarters.
The Battle of Kings Mountain had electrified American hopes, which after Camden had been at perhaps the lowest point since the Revolution's beginning. In the Salisbury district Davidson was busy enlisting men to take the places of those whose terms of service had expired. By the middle of November, the deeply concerned Col. ?? Davie wrote Gen. ?? Smallwood, "The torments of the damned are scarcely equal to the torture of my feelings these five or six days past, from the rage of the militia for returning home. Most of them deserted before the last evening."
But down in South Carolina, Gen. ?? Sumner added to the confidence of the Americans in the Carolinas by a victory over Tarleton at Blackstock's plantation, though in doing so he was himself several wounded. Davidson in writing his congratulations expressed deep concern:
"My anxiety for you (least your Wound be fatal) is such that I have scarcely spirit to congratulate you on your glorious victory. I sincerely wish you a speedy recovery, and in the meantime regret the Want of your services in the field, at this critical and important Juncture. Gen'l Gates with the Continental Troops will be at Charlotte tomorrow. We lie at the old post a dead weight on the Publick. I think I am possessed of all the patience necessary to my profession but I assure you it is nearly exhausted…"
In the last week of November, Lieutenant General Horatio Gates brought what was euphemistically called the southern army into Charlotte .
On December 2, Major General Nathanael Greene took command of this force, numbering, according to a field return made just before the march to Charlotte , more than 1,100 militiamen and upward of 1,000 Continental regulars, with some 400 under command of Morgan. But it was what Green aptly termed "only the shadow of an army."
Several hundred of them did not have any weapons and were almost without clothing in the dead of this winter of 1780, and half of the entire force were untrained militiamen. Also, the fighting in the vicinity of Charlotte had used up all the supplies in that region. Greene decided to leave Charlotte, but before he could get his army moving, heavy rains set in and kept his troops from marching.
On December 20, Greene divided his forces and went with one group to the Cheraw region on the Pee Dee in South Carolina, where he made camp the day after Christmas. The other group was sent toward Fort Ninety-Six under Colonel Daniel Morgan.
On January 17, Cornwallis was on the move. He sent Tarleton to meet Morgan; they clashed at Cowpens and Morgan gave the British cavalry a resounding defeat.
Now Cornwallis, smarting at this new setback started in determined pursuit of Morgan, who began retreating toward Mecklenburg. As Morgan kept safely ahead of the British commander, Greene at Cheraw ordered his force under Huger to march northward toward Salisbury and he himself rode northwestward toward Charlotte to join Morgan.
Morgan had written him that a continuing ailment in his hip would make necessary his taking a leave of absence from his command. "I am not unacquainted with the hurt my retiring will be to the service, as the people have so much dependence in me," he wrote Greene; "but the love I have for my country, and the willingness I have always showed to serve it, will convince you that nothing would be wanting on my side were I able to persevere. So that I must beg leave of absence, till I find myself able to take the field again." He assured Greene that "Gen. Davidson, Col. Pickens and Gen. Sumter" could "manage the militia better than I can, and will well supply my place."
Meanwhile, during the preceding many weeks, Davidson had been riding the district enlisting recruits to fill the places of those men whose terms of enlistment had expired. On learning that Cornwallis was again on the move, he had sent out orders for the militia to meet at Charlotte on January 10.
The victory of Morgan at Cowpens a week later, in which many of the men sent by Davidson to Morgan had fought, had given to the Americans a resurgence of hope and confidence. But even yet, two weeks after the Charlotte muster and a week after Cowpens, Davidson wrote Greene that he was "distressed on account of the Smallness of our Resources and the Want of propper Ecconomy." But he was still anxious to attack the enemy, even though by Greene's appointment of Colonel Davie to be his commissary-general, Davidson would not have the services of that daring and resourceful cavalry leader.
In this new venture into North Carolina, Cornwallis was careful to avoid a second encounter with the Mecklenburg hornets. He swung to the left and came northward west of the Catawba. It was late in January now. For 3 days, he camped at Ramsour's Mill, where he was joined by Tarleton.
On January 28, he marched eastward toward the river to Jacob Forney's; there for another 3 days his hungry troops feasted on the affluent Forney's cattle and sheep, hogs and chickens, while they waited for the swollen waters of the Catawba to subside. Before establishing his camp at Forney's, some 4 miles from the river, he had ventured to Beatties Ford but had fount it impassable because of the raging current.
On the other side of the river, too, he had been informed, were Americans awaiting him at all the fording places. Above Beatties were McEwen's and Sherrill's, and below were Cowan's, Tool's, and Tuckassege.
The task of the Americans, spaced thinly along the eastern bank, was to anticipate Cornwallis' crossing strategy and slow his advance in order to give Morgan, already impeded by the prisoners and supplies he had taken at the Cowpens, more time to conduct an orderly retreat. Cornwallis, on the other hand, would be trying by a surprise maneuver to get across the river with a minimum number of casualties and as quickly as possible.
On January 31, Cornwallis made his move. It had begun to rain again and the British commander felt that to delay longer might mean the loss of any chance to overtake and destroy Morgan's forces. He made a move to indicate he was planning to cross at Beatties Ford by sending Lt. Col. Webster and a detachment of British to "make every possible demonstration by cannonading and otherwise, of an intention to force a passage there," he would write some six weeks later.
Battle of Cowan's Ford marker
On February 1, at 1:00 A.M., he would march down the river to Cowan's Ford, where he planned his major drive to cross the stream. Meanwhile, Greene had arrived at the Catawba and with Washington had visited Morgan and Davidson at Beatties Ford and planned his strategy.
Though no records of this meeting reveal what was said, it is evident by what immediately followed that Greene directed Davidson, who had placed his men at the various fords along the eastern bank, to do what he could to slow Cornwallis' crossing. He and Morgan then set out towards Salisbury.
Soon after they left him, Davidson dispatched a company of cavalry under Colonel Joe Graham, who had by now recovered from his wounds at Sugaw Creek in late September, and infantry led by Colonel William Polk, southward 4 miles to Cowan's Ford. Graham was to keep a patrol on the move to see that the British did not make a surprise crossing under cover of darkness. Toward nightfall, Davidson himself led a detachment to Cowan's Ford and set up camp a half mile or so back from the river, but he assigned a picker to watch from the water's edge the Cowan's crossing point.
At 1:00 A.M., Cornwallis reveals in his own account of the skirmish at "McCowan's ford," he began his march to the river, which was reached after much difficulty and the loss of some of their cannon, "the morning being very dark and rainy & part of our way through a wood where there was no road." But instead of going to Beatties Ford, which his actions there during the day had indicated he would try to force, he moved down the river to Cowan's. This was actually two fords; one, the horse ford, though shallower than the other, was longer, because it crossed the stream obliquely; the other, called the wagon ford, went straight across the river.
Davidson evidently feared that Tarleton's troops might, in the darkness of a winter's night, slip across the Catawba and get behind him, from which position they could attack him as the British infantry began its crossing. So he stayed well back from the river bank opposite to the point where the horse ford emerged on the Mecklenburg side. Meanwhile, the pickets huddled on the bank at the eastern end of the wagon ford.
It was nearing daybreak when Cornwallis reached Cowan's Ford and, hardly hesitating, began crossing the swollen stream. A man named Frederick Hager, a Tory who lived in the vicinity, was serving as the guide for the British force. Hager led them straight across along the wagon ford and soon the horses were over their heads in the raging torrent. The pickets on the eastern bank were asleep, but the noise of the British crossing awakened them and their firing brought Davidson and his men racing toward the wagon ford.
For a few minutes, the action was lively. The militiamen were picking off many British struggling in the water. The return fire was heavy, and hardly had Davidson arrived when he was struck from his horse.
In a few minutes, several other Americans were killed. The British loss was greater, but the skirmish proved a defeat for the Americans. Their resistance hardly slowed Cornwallis' advance. It would be recorded, however, as the last battle with an invader on Mecklenburg soil. In the Fall, on October 19, Cornwallis would surrender to Gen. George Washington's Army at Yorktown, Virginia.
Late that evening, Davidson's body, stripped and rain drenched, was found by David Wilson, brother-in-law of his kinsman, Major John Davidson, Pastor Thomas McCaule of Centre Church, and Richard Barry. They took the body to the home of David's widowed stepmother, Mrs. Samuel Wilson.
Fortunately, they were able to dress the body in a suit left there by Captain James Jack, Mrs. Wilson's brother. That night, by torchlight, with Pastor McCaule conducting the brief service and with Mary Brevard Davidson standing stalwart beside the red clay grave, Davidson was buried in Hopewell Presbyterian churchyard, which was located on Beattie's Ford Road, approximately 5 miles south of the battlefield.
Davidson had been killed by a rifle ball through the heart. Frederick Hager's rifle, said the neighbors, shot such a ball.
Stedman: "The light infantry of the guards, led by Colonel Hall, first entered the water. They were followed by the grenadiers, and the grenadiers by the battalions, the men marching in platoons, to support one another against the rapidity of the stream. When the light infantry had nearly reached the middle of the river, they were challenged by one of the enemy's sentinels. The sentinel having challenged thrice and received no answer, immediately gave the alarm by discharging his musket; and the enemy's pickets were turned out. No sooner did the guide [a Tory] who attended the light infantry to show them the ford, hear the report of the sentinel's musket, than he turned round and left them. This, which at first seemed to portend much mischief, in the end proved a fortunate incident. Colonel Hall, being forsaken by his guide, and not knowing the true direction of the ford, led the column directly across the river, to the nearest part of the opposite bank. This direction, as it afterward appeared, carried the British troops considerably above the place where the ford terminated on the other side, and where the enemy's pickets were posted, so that when they delivered their fire the light infantry were already so far advanced as to be out of the line of its direction, and it took place angularly upon the grenadiers, so as to produce no great effect."
In his letter to Germain of 17 March, Cornwallis wrote: "Lieutenant-colonel Webster was detached with part of the army and all the baggage to Beattie's ford, six miles above M'Cowan's, where General Davidson was supposed to be posted with five hundred militia, and was directed to make every possible demonstration, by cannonading and otherwise, of an intention to force a passage there; and I marched at one in the morning, with the brigade of guards, regiment of Bose, 23d, two hundred cavalry, and two three-pounders, to the ford fixed upon for the real attempt.
The morning being very dark and rainy, and part of our way through a wood where there was no road, one of the three pounders in front of the 23d regiment and the cavalry overset in a swamp, and occasioned those corps to lose the line of march; and some of the artillery men belonging to the other gun, (one of whom had the march) having stopped to assist, were likewise left behind. The head of the column in the mean while arrived at the bank of the river, and the day began to break. I could make no use of the gun that was up, and it was evident, from the number of fires on the other side, that the opposition would be greater than I had expected: However, as I knew that the rain then falling would soon render the river again impassable, and I had received information the evening before, that General Greene had arrived in General Morgan's camp, and that his army was marching after him with the greatest expedition, I determined to desist from the attempt; and therefore, full of confidence in the zeal and gallantry of Brigadier-general O'Hara, and of the brigade of guards under his command, I ordered them to march on, but, to prevent, confusion, not to fire until they gained the opposite bank.
Their behaviour justified my high opinion of them; for a constant fire from the enemy, in a ford upwards of five hundred yards wide, in many places up to their middle, with a rocky bottom and strong current, made no impression on their cool and determined valour, nor checked their passage. The light infantry landing first, immediately formed, and in a few minutes killed or dispersed every thing that appeared before them; the rest of the troops forming, and advancing in succession. We now learned that we had been opposed by about three hundred militia that had taken post there only the evening before, under the command of General Davidson. Their general and two or three other officers were among the killed; the number of wounded was uncertain; a few were taken prisoners. On our side, Lieutenant-colonel Hall and three men were killed, and thirty-six wounded, all of the light infantry and grenadiers of the guards."
"Leslie" Orderly Book entry for 1 February: "Lord Cornwallis is highly displeased that Several Houses was set on fire during the March this day, a Disgrace to the Army; & that he will punish with the Utmost Severity any persons who shall be found Guilty of Committing so disgracefull an Outrage –- His Lordship requests the Comdg. Officers of Corps will Endeavor to find out the Persons who set fire to the Houses this day."
Joseph Graham: "We had none wounded or taken. The enemies loss as stated in the official account, published in the Charleston Gazette, two months after, was Col. Hall of the Guards, and another officer and twenty-nine privates. Thirty-one in all, killed, and thirty-five wounded. They left sixteen who were so badly wounded they could not eb taken along, at Mr. Lucas's (the nearest farm) and a surgeon under protection of a flag was left with them. Two wounded officers were carried on Biers, and such of the wounded as could not walk were hauled in wagons. Some of the dead were found down the river some distance lodged in fish traps, and in brush about the banks, on rocks, etc., etc. An elegant beaver hat, made agreeably to the fashion of those times, marked inside, The property of Josiah Martin, Governor [Royal Governor of North Carolina], was found ten miles below.
It never was explained by what means his Excellency lost his hat. He was not hurt himself. When General O'Hara sent on Tarleton his men kindled fires on the battle ground to dry themselves, cook their breakfasts, etc. They buried their dead, disposed of their wounded, and about mid-day he marched, and in the afternoon united with Cornwallis at Givens' plantation, two miles from Beattie's Ford, and one mile south of the Salisbury road Tarleton joined them before night. It had rained at times all day, and in the evening and night it fell in torrents.
The men [N.C. militia] under Col. [Joseph] Williams and Capt. Potts who were guarding Tuckasege and Tool's Fords, had early notice of the enemy's crossing and retired. The different parties met in the afternoon at Jno. McK. Alexander's, eight miles above Charlotte. By noon the next day all the men who were not dispersed, were collected near Harris' mill on Rocky river ten or twelve miles from the enemy."


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Q: What is the meaning of this sentence? What is the meaning of this sentence?

They had heard so very little of this; yet it was enough to build up wretched dolorous dreams upon, there in the shade of the night. (Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, 1891)

A: The girls don't have much information to go on. (That doesn't make it any less worrying)
The rumours they have heard are turning into sad, disturbing horrors.
It is keeping them all awake in the dark restless night.
[ I wish I could pack as much into one sentence as Hardy does.]

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Q: Semi Colon Issue in JS I happened to come across the following weird case:
One of the network calls returned a response like this:
window.function1 = function() {
  console.log('function 1');
} window.project = 'test';

But when the following script is getting evaluated, it is returning an error

Unexpected Identifier

This issue gets fixed when a semi-colon is added after the function1 definition So the correct fix is:
window.function1 = function() {
  console.log('function 1');
}; window.project = 'test';

I am curious to know the reason behind this.

A: window.function1 = function() {
  console.log('function 1');
} window.project = 'test';

js engine reads this entire thing as one statement ,since it can't find any semicolon for the anonymous function assignment, it continues parsing only to find  window.project = 'test and so it gives you an error.
window.function1 = function() {
  console.log('function 1');
}; window.project = 'test';

here because you have a semicolon after the anonymous function, js engine can figure out that that these are 2 different statements.

A: In Javascript the semicolon can be omitted if the statement is followed by a line break.
Here you have 2 statements in the same line, so the first semicolon is obligatory.
But you could write something like:
window.function1 = function() {
  console.log('function 1');
}; window.project = 'test'

(without the last semicolon)
More details here: https://www.codecademy.com/forum_questions/507f6dd09266b70200000d7e

A: function1 is a variable, which does not appear to be concluded before window.project ; js interpreting both variables as function1. Could add a comma , operator following function1 declaration to avoid syntax error between the two variables function1, project

window.function1 = function() {
  console.log('function 1');
}, window.project = 'test';


"The Feasibility of Incentivizing Participation in an Online Social Net" by Sherry L. Pagoto, Molly E. Waring et al.
Engagement in online social network-delivered weight loss interventions is a predictor of weight loss. Incentivizing engagement in a subset of participants may increase group engagement and subsequent weight loss. In a pilot feasibility trial, 56 adults with obesity were randomized to two Facebook-delivered weight loss interventions, one had 10% users incentivized to engage daily and the other did not. We compared conditions on engagement and weight loss, and then compared incentivized users and natural high engagers on weight loss. Participants were 46.3 (SD: 10.3) years and 89% female. The incentivized user condition had greater total engagement (p=0.0361), but weight loss did not differ (p=0.2096). Three natural superusers emerged in each condition. Natural superusers lost more weight than incentivized users (p=0.0358). Natural superusers' posts elicited more comments than incentivized superusers (p=0.0107). Incentivized superusers may engage differently than natural superusers. Future studies should explore ways to promote engagement in online interventions.
Pagoto, Sherry L.; Waring, Molly E.; Olendzki, Effie; Oleski, Jessica L.; May, Christine N.; and Evans, Martinus M., "The Feasibility of Incentivizing Participation in an Online Social Network Weight Loss Program" (2017). UMass Worcester PRC Publications. 70.


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Bad YouTube Videos Will Follow You Forever
By Ed Carrasco
8:30 am April 6, 2012
Posted on... 8:30 am April 6, 2012
Written By Ed Carrasco
When you're a fast-food chain attempting a makeover on social media, you're hoping you have the best writers with the best ideas making the best product possible. However, Burger King's massive promotion of its new menu forced it to pull out one of its commercials because of criticism that Mary J. Blige singing about fried chicken encourages negative stereotypes of African Americans. Although the company said it was a licensing issue that forced it to pull the plug on YouTube, people are still viewing it and still making a fuss about it.
Unless you're one of the big studios fighting on copyright principles, taking down a video off sites like YouTube is never permanent—it will haunt the creators to all eternity. In fact, it only makes the problem worse—find any video you know that's been removed by the user and many others will have the copy of that said video. The moral of the story: Once you post on YouTube, it will be there in some form forever and ever and ever and ever. Here's a sampling of YouTube videos that simply won't go away:
Herman Cain's Rabbit Video
You would think that Herman Cain would have faded to oblivion once he left the presidential race a few months ago. Wrong. The pizza man's latest foray into politics comes in the form of a YouTube video criticizing the current small business climate. It starts off with a young girl holding a rabbit symbolizing small business. Looks cute, but it doesn't stop there. The girl puts the rabbit where it's catapulted for target practice. SPLAT! The girl asks later, "Any questions?" I have a question. If YouTube thought it was so bad that they had to remove it to spare us Internet users the gore, how come I can watch the scene over and over and over again on various different sites (You can't even stop other YouTube users)?
When you have one of the most ridiculed and most disliked videos of all time on YouTube, your first instinct is to remove it as soon as possible. For Rebecca Black, her "Friday" video (don't think for a minute I'll be humming it)—paid by her mother to Ark Music for $4,000—became a viral sensation for all the wrong reasons. With so many videos proliferating YouTube, how did such a low-budget, god-awfully written music video attract any attention? We may never know, but for the beginning of 2011, it became one of the most talked about videos on the myriad of social media networks. Even though it garnered more than 3 million dislikes and 166 million viewers, the very-maligned video disappeared from YouTube in June 2011 with lots of attention and speculation that it was the embarrassment of making the video. If this was a ploy to get rid of "Friday" from our minds (both Rebecca Black and Ark Music deny it was the case), they are dead wrong. Since "Friday"
Alexandra Wallace
The problem doesn't end with making one of the worst music videos of all time. When you make stupid rants like former UCLA student Alexandra Wallace did last year about Asian American students in the library, it won't be ignored. Despite her apologies to the Asian American community and to UCLA students for saying things that I'd rather not publish in this article, her infamous, low-quality video rant will live on. She may have tried to attempted to delete the video, but if you look for Alexandra Wallace on YouTube, the others that were hurt by her "attempt to produce a humorous" video haven't forgotten at all.
Ed Carrasco has been in the journalism field for nearly a decade. Some of his photographs/articles have been featured in publications such as the Guardian, LA Weekly, OC Weekly, the Fullertonian, Cerritos-Artesia Patch and Orange Coast Magazine. He graduated with a bachelor's degree in English from UCLA and a master's degree in Journalism from Kingston University in the United Kingdom.
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Vampire Week: Interview with Brooke Lewis: Blood Fiend, Scream Queen
Posted on June 22, 2010 by Jason Thorson
To attain Scream Queen status, one must be beautiful. Of course, talent helps too. Now, combine those two attributes with brains and incredible tenacity and you have Brooke Lewis – one of horror film's fastest rising starlets. I was fortunate enough to interview Brooke recently to discuss her recent successes including her dual Golden Cob nominations, her latest projects such as the sick new flick, Slime City Massacre, and some of the exciting new projects (some of which are actually old favorites – here's lookin' at you, Ms. Vampy!) that Brooke will tackle next. Please read on, fellow horror fans:
Congratulations on getting nominated for two Golden Cob Awards this year – Best Scream Queen and Rising B Movie Actress. You're nominated alongside some genre heavyweights. Having had mainstream success early on with the Off-Broadway comedy, Tony n' Tina's Wedding, what do these genre nominations mean to you? Win or lose, do they put you on the map?
Thank you soooo much for acknowledging the GOLDEN COB AWARDS and I am honored to have been nominated alongside such seasoned veterans of the horror and sci-fi genres. I feel like my career is an interesting example of how there really is no exact "formula" in this crazy biz! I started out in mainstream from Off-Broadway to indie dramas to appearances in TV sitcoms and pilots and, although I have never left mainstream, I was blessed to get a "break" in horror and sci-fi and I am loving every minute of it! I have been such a horror and vampire fanatic, since I was a little girl, so it suits me perfectly! I have been so fortunate to gain an incredible fan base and love and support from my genre peers that the nominations are just "icing on the cake" (Who am I kidding? I cried tears of joy for a month after the nominations were announced!). In some ways, yes, I feel like I have "arrived" or been "put on the map", but whether I "win" or not, simply to have my hard work acknowledged, already feels like a huge win to me! [Brooke won Best Scream Queen, Congratulations! – Jason]
What was your experience like filming Slime City Massacre? According to your co-star, Debbie Rochon, things got pretty wild during the production – can you confirm or deny this….or maybe plead the 5th? Are you a fan of the first Slime City (1988)?
Babe, I rarely "plead the 5th"! SLIME CITY MASSACRE is a little gem of an indie horror/sci-fi/action flick! Greg Lamberson, the writer/director/producer, put his life into this project and everyone pulled together to create something wonderful and artistic with a very low budget. To be honest, I didn't become a fan of SLIME CITY, until I received the script to SLIME CITY MASSACRE. For all the original SLIME CITY fans, Greg really stepped it up with the sequel!
I play Nicole, a prostitute in the 1959 flashback scenes. I really enjoyed preparing for this character and hope horror fans enjoy my work in this one. Debbie told ya things got "wild", huh? LOL (I love that woman!)! So I was told, but, unfortunately, was already back on a plane to Los Angeles when things heated up! Speaking of heat, the "hottest" and wildest experience I had during production was when I had to be up early for rehearsal the day before shooting. I was so exhausted and needing sleep when a fire broke out in the kitchen of my hotel. The alarms went off and we were evacuated from the hotel and I had to sit outside from 4-7 a.m. until they cleared us to go back in! That was my wild experience!
You've created a unique web presence with Ms. Vampy. What's the genesis of this persona and from where are drawing your influences?
I created a web series MS. VAMPY to introduce the world to one of my favorite characters and I still cannot believe how well she was received! It was such a lovely little project, in which I created, produced, co-directed and starred under the expertise of my Executive Producer, Todd Tucker of Illusion Industries (formerly DRAC Studios).
I would love to introduce your readers to Ms. Vampy, whom Elvira, naturally, inspired: "Ms. Vampy is America's funniest, sexiest, sassiest and most high maintenance vampire. Her personality is as big as her hair and is often described as Betty Boop meets Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny. She loves pleather and fur and wouldn't be caught "dead" without high heels! But, there's much more to this lovable Brooklyn vampiress. While she looks young and vibrant, Ms. Vampy is one of the oldest gals on earth. She has yet to marry or have children, she freely admits to being boy crazy and hopes to someday make-out with Robert Pattinson. Ms. Vampy is forever sexy, funny, young, and obnoxious, but her heart is as big as her mouth. If she ever bites you, it'll be with love." – Editor, Vampity Fair
You're a member of Women in Film and you're also becoming a Scream Queen to be reckoned with. There is one school of thought out there – one I don't subscribe to – that would deem those two allegiances as being incompatible. What's your take on women in horror, both historically and currently?
Thank you for calling me a "Scream Queen to be reckoned with" and not "subscribing"! I think I am/hope to be recreating that rare combination of powerful women in film in both mainstream and the horror/sci-fi genres! The title "Scream Queen" to me is an honor! It means a "powerful" female presence in the horror genre! In my opinion, any true horror fan will recognize that the greatest roles for women in horror history were not necessarily the roles in which women were victimized or objectified, but the roles in which women were the heroine (Jamie Lee Curtis in HALLOWEEN or PROM NIGHT), or the strength behind the man (Margot Kidder in AMITYVILLE HORROR) or the killer (Sissy Spacek in CARRIE). In my opinion, there are currently sub-genres inside the horror genre and I tend to gravitate toward the more mainstream themes and roles for women, as described above. I believe there are more women stepping up behind the camera in both horror and mainstream than ever before and I believe that we have strong voices and stories that need to be heard!
You write, direct, produce, and perform Ms. Vampy. There are other projects for which you wear multiple hats, so to speak. Which job do you prefer to do? What's your least favorite?
Acting is my heart, soul and passion, so everything else I do is motivated by my love for acting and to create opportunities for me to do what I love! Somewhere along the way, I learned that I am a damn good producer! I actually love producing on a different level, because I am such a control freak about my career. Producing empowers me to have some input on the projects I choose. I enjoy writing, because I am very creative, expressive and have all kinds of crazy stories to tell, but I am WAY too impatient to be a full-time writer! I suck at typing and I'm terrible at structure, but I am great with a team when we collaborate together and I can vocalize my ideas! At present, I would say I am not really a director, nor do I aspire to be. I Co-directed MS. VAMPY under the expertise of Todd Tucker, because no one could possibly have had the vision we had for this particular character! As much as I like the creative aspects, including working with actors and creating shot lists, I do not like the technical aspects of directing. It bores me and my natural tendencies make me gravitate to the front of the camera. I'm such the "actress".
You're all over the place these days with several recent projects to promote and several more on the way. Do you have any down time and if so, how do you like to spend it?
I feel like I am "all over the place these days"…physically, mentally and emotionally, so down time? What the hell is that? Right now, I am dedicating 100% to my career, so that includes acting, producing, writing, developing, publicity, answering emails, fan mail, horror and sci-fi conventions and festivals and let's not forget "tweeting"! I swear, who would want to date ME??? When I do find time for a break, I enjoy working out, brunching, wine tasting, deep one-on-one conversations, reading spiritual/metaphysical books and, of course, renting horror movies and having a marathon!
What's next for both you and your production company, Philly Chick Pictures?
As for Philly Chick Pictures, I am proud to announce that we are in the development stage of creating a feature film for Ms. Vampy. I am blessed to have a co-production deal with Illusion Industries, in which I will star and produce, Todd Tucker will direct, Jim Pacitti will star and produce and Tamar Halpern and Jim and I have written based on my original story. The feature is a Halloween Family Comedy titled VAMP IT OUT and will be in the vein of THE NANNY meets ELVIRA meets HOUSE BUNNY. I am following my heart and soul with this piece and my goal is to inspire teenage girls and women to embrace their inner beauty, follow their dreams and when faced with fear, dig deep inside, find their inner vamp and VAMP IT OUT!!!
As for Brooke, along with the films mentioned above, I have a few others being released this year, including Ford Austin's horror/scifi/comedy DAHMER VS. GACY, Marc Clebanoff's dark comedy GERALD, Sal Polisi's mobster drama directed by James Quattrochi called SINATRA CLUB, Fabian Carillo's action flick DOUBLE TAP directed by Ryan Combs and a short film SPRINKLES, directed by Roger A. Scheck, in which I play the lead Maura. This was probably my most challenging and showcase performance to date! I am attached to play Laura in MONDO HOLOCAUSTO! directed by Anthony Sant'Anselmo and as both an actress and producer will be working on an intense drama/thriller UNTOLD IN WEST TEXAS with my dear friends and business associates Parrish Randall and Roger A. Scheck.
Thank you for your deep and detailed questions and thank you for sharing me with your readers!
Love & Horror,
Brooke Lewis
Interview by Jason Thorson
Brooke Lewis at IMBD.com
www.brookelewis.com – www.msvampy.net – www.phillychickpictures.com
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Ulrich Eisel (* 13. September 1941 in Wiesbaden) ist ein Geograph und kritischer Gesellschaftstheoretiker.

Biographie
Nach seiner Berufsausbildung zum Kartograph absolvierte er ein Ingenieursstudium der Kartographie und arbeitete als Ing. grad. bei  Eduard Imhof in Erlenbach, an der ETH Zürich sowie im Verlag Orell Füssli in Zürich. 1967 schloss er ein Studium der Geographie, Soziologie, Kartographie und Politologie an der Freien Universität Berlin an, nahm wissenschaftliche Kontakte unter anderen zu Gerhard Hard, bei dem er später promovierte, auf und war an der Herausgabe der Zeitschrift Geografiker beteiligt. Von 1974 an war er bis zu seiner Promotion in Geographie (1979) wissenschaftlicher Assistent am Institut für Anthropogeographie der FU Berlin. Anschließend war er wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Geographie der Universität Osnabrück, wo er seine Habilitation in Politologie ablegte. 1985 wurde er als Professor an der Technischen Universität Berlin Fachbereich Landschaftsentwicklung (später Umwelt und Gesellschaft) berufen und hat dort bis zu seinem Ruhestand im Jahr 2000 das Fachgebiet Sozialwissenschaftliche Humanökologie (später Kulturgeschichte der Natur) geleitet.

Unter den deutschen Geographen gehört Eisel den methodenkritischen Geographen an, zu denen z. B. auch Gerhard Hard, Dietrich Bartels, Benno Werlen und Hans-Dietrich Schultz gehören. Eisels Arbeiten galten zunächst der kritischen Geographie.  Später widmete Eisel sich in seinen Veröffentlichungen der Wissenschaftstheorie, der Paradigmengeschichte der Landschaftsplanung sowie der Kulturgeschichte der Natur und später der Ideengeschichte des Naturschutzes, der nachhaltigen Landschaftsentwicklung und der Ästhetik. Er betrachtet die Fachpolitik der Landschafts- und Raumplanung aus einer philosophischen und gesellschaftskritischen Perspektive.

Veröffentlichungen

Monographien
 Ulrich Eisel: Die Entwicklung der Anthropogeographie von einer "Raumwissenschaft" zur Gesellschaftswissenschaft. Gesamthochschul-Bibliothek, Kassel 1980, ISBN 978-3-8812-2055-2 (Urbs et regio: Kasseler Schriften zur Geografie und Planung Nr. 17; Dissertation).
 Ulrich Eisel: Die Natur der Wertform und die Wertform der Natur: Studien zu einem dialektischen Naturalismus. Universität Osnabrück, Osnabrück 1984 (Habilitationsschrift).
 Ulrich Eisel: Abenteuer, Brüche, Sicherheiten und Erschütterungen in der Landschaftsarchitektur? Über den Unterschied zwischen Theorie und Fachpolitik – sowie einige Auskünfte über eine Schule. Kassel University Press, Kassel 2011, ISBN 978-3-8621-9134-5.
 Ulrich Eisel: Individualität als Entwicklungsprinzip. Band 1: Humanismus im Widerspruch. Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2021. (485 Seiten) https://www.dampfboot-verlag.de/shop/artikel/individualitaet-als-entwicklungsprinzip.
 Ulrich Eisel: Individualität als Entwicklungsprinzip. Band 2: Erdverbundene Geschichte. Westfälisches Dampfboot. Münster 2021. (598 Seiten) https://www.dampfboot-verlag.de/shop/artikel/individualitaet-als-entwicklungsprinzip_1.

Sammelwerke
 Ulrich Eisel und Stefanie Schultz (Hrsg.): Geschichte und Struktur der Landschaftsplanung. Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin 1991, ISBN 978-3-7983-1461-0 (Landschaftsentwicklung und Umweltforschung Nr. 83).
 Ulrich Eisel und Hans-Dietrich Schultz (Hrsg.): Geographisches Denken. Gesamthochschul-Bibliothek, Kassel 1997, ISBN 978-3-8812-2891-6 (Urbs et regio: Kasseler Schriften zur Geografie und Planung, Sonderband).
 Ulrich Eisel: Landschaft und Gesellschaft. Räumliches Denken im Visier. IN: B. Belina, B. Michel und M. Wissen [Hrsg.]: Raumproduktionen: Theorie & gesellschaftliche Praxis. Band 5, Westfälisches Dampfboot Münster 2009, 308 Seiten. ISBN 978-3-8969-1772-0
 Ulrich Eisel und Stefan Körner (Hrsg.): Befreite Landschaft: Moderne Landschaft ohne arkadischen Ballast?. Technische Universität München, Freising 2009, ISBN 978-3-9314-7216-0 (Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Natur Nr. 18).

Aufsätze (Auswahl)
 Ulrich Eisel: Regionalismus und Industrie. Über die Unmöglichkeit einer Gesellschaftswissenschaft als Raumwissenschaft. In: Peter Sedlacek und Günther Beck (Hrsg.): Kultur-/Sozialgeographie: Beiträge zu ihrer wissenschaftstheoretischen Grundlegung. UTB/Schöningh, Paderborn 1982, ISBN 978-3-5069-9326-7, S. 125–150.
 Ulrich Eisel: Die schöne Landschaft als kritische Utopie oder als konservatives Relikt: Über die Kristallisation gegnerischer politischer Philosophien im Symbol "Landschaft". In: Soziale Welt. Band 38, Nr. 2, 1982, , S. 157–168.
 Ulrich Eisel: Landschaftskunde als "materialistische Theologie". Ein Versuch aktualistischer Geschichtsschreibung der Geographie. In: Gerhard Bahrenberg und Gerhard Hard (Hrsg.): Geographie des Menschen: Dietrich Bartels zum Gedenken, Universität Bremen, Bremen 1987, ISBN 978-3-8872-2168-3, S. 89–110 (Bremer Beiträge zur Geographie und Raumplanung Nr. 11).
 Ulrich Eisel: Warnung vor dem Leben. Gesellschaftstheorie als "Kritik der Politischen Biologie". In: Dieter Hassenpflug: Industrialismus und Ökoromantik: Geschichte und Perspektiven der Ökologisierung. Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag, Wiesbaden 1991, ISBN 978-3-8244-4077-1, S. 159–192.
 Ulrich Eisel: Individualität als Einheit der konkreten Natur: Das Kulturkonzept der Geographie. In: Bernhard Glaeser und Parto Teherani-Krönner (Hrsg.): Humanökologie und Kulturökologie. Grundlagen, Ansätze, Praxis. Westdeutscher Verlag, Opladen 1992, ISBN 978-3-5311-2375-2, S. 107–151.
 Ulrich Eisel: Die Schuld, die Heuchelei, die Korruption. Gedanken über die Deutschen und einen Christen. In: Kursbuch, H. 109, 1992, S. 111–127.
 Ulrich Eisel: Hat Goldmund jemals Narziss berührt? Über den Geschmack der Reflexion. In: R.-J. Heger, H. Manthey, [Hrsg.]: LernLiebe. Über den Eros beim Lehren und Lernen. Weinheim 1993, S. 192–206.
 Ulrich Eisel: Das Raumparadigma in den Umweltwissenschaften. In: Nachrichtenblatt zur Stadt- und Regionalsoziologie, Band 8, Nr. 1, 1993, S. 27–39.
 Ulrich Eisel: Triumph des Lebens. Der Sieg christlicher Wissenschaft über den Tod in Arkadien. In: Ulrich Eisel, Hans-Dietrich Schultz [Hrsg.]: Geographisches Denken. Urbs et Regio, Kasseler Schriften zur Geographie und Planung, Bd. 65, Kassel 1997, S. 39–160. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Triumph_des_Lebens/Triumph_des_Lebens_PDF_2.pdf (Auszug: https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Das_Zeitalter_der_Woelfe/Eisel_Arkadien-Auszug_fertig_1.pdf)
 Ulrich Eisel: Unbestimmte Stimmungen und bestimmte Unstimmigkeiten. Über die guten Gründe der deutschen Landschaftsarchitektur für die Abwendung von der Wissenschaft und die schlechten Gründe für ihre intellektuelle Abstinenz – mit Folgerungen für die Ausbildung in diesem Fach. In: St. Bernard, Ph. Sattler [Hrsg.]: Vor der Tür. Aktuelle Landschaftsarchitektur aus Berlin. München 1997, S. 17–33. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Unbestimmte_Stimmungen/Eisel_Unbestimmte_Stimmungen_fertig.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel, D. Bernard, Ludwig Trepl: Theorie und Gefühl – Zur Anmutungsqualität innerstädtischer Brachflächen. In: BrachFlächenRecycling, H. 1, 1998, S. 51–59. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Theorie_und_Gefuehl/Eisel_Theorie_und_Gefuehl_fertig_1__BRACHNEU_.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Angst vor der Landschaft. In: Erdkunde, Bd. 55, H. 2, 2001, S. 152–171. http://www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/archive/2001/angst-vor-der-landschaft.-ein-wissenschaftlicher-essay
 Ulrich Eisel: Das Leben ist nicht einfach wegzudenken. In: A. Lotz, J. Gnädinger [Hrsg.]: Wie kommt die Ökologie zu ihren Gegenständen? Gegenstandskonstitution und Modellierung in den ökologischen Wissenschaften. Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Arbeitskreises Theorie in der Ökologie in der Gesellschaft für Ökologie vom 21.–23. Feb. 2001, Theorie der Ökologie, Bd. 7, Frankfurt am Main 2002, S. 129–151. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Das_Leben_ist_nicht_einfach/Eisel_Leben_nicht_weg_fertig_1.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Tabu Leitkultur. Natur und Landschaft, Jg. 78, H. 9/10, 2003 (Themenheft "Heimat – ein Tabu im Naturschutz?"), S. 409–417. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/Tabu_Leitkultur-2003.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Braucht Heimatliebe Fürsprecher? Über ein Tabu, das keines ist und eine Selbstverständlichkeit, die tabu ist. Natur und Landschaft, Jg. 78, H. 12, 2003, S. 543–545. Nachgedruckt in: In: R. Piechocki, N. Wiersbinski [Hrsg.]: Heimat und Naturschutz. Die Vilmer Thesen und ihre Kritiker. Naturschutz und biologische Vielfalt, H. 47, Veröffentlichungen des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz, Bonn – Bad Godesberg, S. 77–83.
 Nagel, A., Ulrich Eisel: Ethische Begründungen für den Schutz der Natur. In: S. Körner, A. Nagel, Ulrich Eisel: Naturschutzbegründungen. BfN-Schriftenreihe für Landschaftspflege und Naturschutz, Münster-Hiltrup 2003, S. 52–107.
 Nagel, A., Ulrich Eisel: Ökonomische Argumente im Naturschutz. In: S. Körner, A. Nagel, Ulrich Eisel: Naturschutzbegründungen. BfN-Schriftenreihe für Landschaftspflege und Naturschutz, Münster-Hiltrup 2003, S. 109–147.
 Ulrich Eisel: Naturbilder sind keine Bilder aus der Natur. Orientierungsfragen an der Nahtstelle zwischen subjektivem und objektivem Sinn. GAIA, Jg. 13, H. 2, 2004, S. 92–98. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/schriften/Naturbilder_sind_keine_Bilder_aus_der_Natur_-_Gaia.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Konkreter Mensch im konkreten Raum. Individuelle Eigenart als Prinzip objektiver Geltung In: H.-D. Schultz [Hrsg.]: ¿Geographie? Teil 3 (Ergänzungsband): Antworten vom 18. Jahrhundert bis zur Gegenwart. Arbeitsberichte, Geographisches Institut, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Heft 100, Berlin 2004, (ISSN 0947-0360) S. 197–210. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Konkreter_Mensch_in_konkreter_Natur/Eisel_Konkreter_Mensch_im_konkreten_Raum__umformatiert_.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Über Motive, Mängel, Missverständnisse, Marotten und Moden. In: S. Schöbel [Hrsg.]: Aufhebungen. Urbane Landschaftsarchitektur als Aufgabe. Berlin 2004, S. 5–14.
 Ulrich Eisel: Wann ist die Eigenart der Landschaft schön? Über die Nutzlosigkeit allgemeiner Vielfalt für die Landschaftserfahrung. In: S. Schöbel [Hrsg.]: Aufhebungen. Urbane Landschaftsarchitektur als Aufgabe. Berlin 2004, S. 15–37
 Ulrich Eisel: Replik: Von Gräben, Brücken und Bauarbeitern. GAIA, Jg. 13, H. 4, 2004, S. 239. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/schriften/Zur_Logik_gesellschaftlicher_Naturbilder-GAIA_4_04_p237_239.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Politische Schubladen als theoretische Heuristik. Methodische Aspekte politischer Bedeutungsverschiebungen in Naturbildern. In: Ludwig Fischer: Projektionsfläche Natur. Zum Zusammenhang von Naturbildern und gesellschaftlichen Verhältnissen. Hamburg University Press, Hamburg 2004, ISBN 978-3-9378-1601-2, S. 29–43 (Tagungsband).
 Ulrich Eisel: Das Leben im Raum und das politische Leben von Theorien in der Ökologie In: Michael Weingarten (Hrsg.): Strukturierung von Raum und Landschaft: Konzepte in Ökologie und der Theorie gesellschaftlicher Naturverhältnisse. Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster 2005, ISBN 978-3-8969-1580-1, S. 42–62 (Tagungsband).
 Ulrich Eisel: Die immerwährende Utopie. Landschaft als kulturelle Kraft. In: Landschaftskult. Natur als kulturelle Herausforderung. Politische Ökologie 96, 2005, S. 14–18. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/schriften/Die_immerwaehrende_Utopie.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Kurzkommentar zu Martin Gorkes Kritik am Kapitel "Ethische Begründungen für den Schutz der Natur" in der Schrift "Naturschutzbegründungen". Natur und Landschaft, Jg. 81, H. 1, 2006, S. 55–56.
 Ulrich Eisel: Die Struktur politischer Geltung des Bürgers und die Struktur der Erfahrungswissenschaft. Teil I in: Eisel, U., Körner, S., Die Versachlichung der Welt. Über die Rolle der Wissenschaft in der Demokratie. In: U. Eisel, S. Körner [Hrsg.]: Landschaft in einer Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit, Band 1. Die Verwissenschaftlichung kultureller Qualität. Arbeitsberichte des Fachbereichs Architektur Stadtplanung Landschaftsplanung, Heft 163, Universität Kassel, Kassel 2006, S. 8–17. http://kobra.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/bitstream/urn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2008031720776/1/DieVerwissenschaftlichungKulturellerQualitaet.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Landschaftliche Vielfalt mit und ohne Sinn. Über den Nutzen einer Methode in der Landschaftsplanung und im Naturschutz. In: U. Eisel, S. Körner [Hrsg.]: Landschaft in einer Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit, Band 1. Die Verwissenschaftlichung kultureller Qualität. Arbeitsberichte des Fachbereichs Architektur Stadtplanung Landschaftsplanung, Heft 163, Universität Kassel, Kassel 2006, S. 92–119. http://kobra.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/bitstream/urn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2008031720776/1/DieVerwissenschaftlichungKulturellerQualitaet.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Emanzipation und Würde in einfachster Form. Die philosophische und politische Struktur funktionalistischer Ästhetik. In: U. Eisel, S. Körner [Hrsg.]: Landschaft in einer Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit, Band 2. Landschaftsarchitektur im Spannungsfeld zwischen Ästhetik und Nutzen. Arbeitsberichte des Fachbereichs Architektur Stadtplanung Landschaftsplanung, Heft 166, Universität Kassel, Kassel 2007. S. 56–75.
 Ulrich Eisel: Die fachpolitische Situation der Landschaftsarchitektur. Teil 2 von Eisel, U., Körner, S.: Die Gestaltung der Welt im Spannungsfeld zwischen Versachlichung und individueller Ausdruckskraft. Bedingungen für eine theoretische Auseinandersetzung in der Landschaftsarchitektur. In: U. Eisel, S. Körner [Hrsg.]: Landschaft in einer Kultur der Nachhaltigkeit, Band 2. Landschaftsarchitektur im Spannungsfeld zwischen Ästhetik und Nutzen. Arbeitsberichte des Fachbereichs Architektur Stadtplanung Landschaftsplanung, Heft 166, Universität Kassel, Kassel 2007, S. 26–41. https://kobra.bibliothek.uni-kassel.de/bitstream/urn:nbn:de:hebis:34-2008080723169/1/LandschaftKulturNachhaltigkeitII.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Heimatliebe diesseits von rechts und links. Eine Replik auf zwei Anwälte des richtigen Lebens. In: Piechocki, R., Wiersbinski, N. [Hrsg.]: Heimat und Naturschutz. Die Vilmer Thesen und ihre Kritiker. Naturschutz und biologische Vielfalt, H. 47, Veröffentlichungen des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz, Bonn – Bad Godesberg 2007, S. 147–193. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Heimatliebe_diesseits_von_rechts_und_links/Eisel_Heimatliebe_diesseits_2.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Der aufrechte Gang eines Weltbürgers im tiefen Jammertal und ein entschlossener Phänomenologe im Widerstand. Über Selbstmitleid und Verfolgungswahn als theoretische Basis. In: R. Piechocki, N. Wiersbinski [Hrsg.]: Heimat und Naturschutz. Die Vilmer Thesen und ihre Kritiker. Naturschutz und biologische Vielfalt, H. 47, Veröffentlichungen des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz, Bonn – Bad Godesberg 2007, S. 225–234. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Der_aufrechte_Gang_eines_Weltbuergers/Eisel_Jammertal.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Gesundes Volksempfinden unter der Knute intellektueller Arroganz? Replik auf Hans-Joachim Schemel. In: R. Piechocki, N. Wiersbinski [Hrsg.]: Heimat und Naturschutz. Die Vilmer Thesen und ihre Kritiker. Naturschutz und biologische Vielfalt, H. 47, Veröffentlichungen des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz, Bonn – Bad Godesberg 2007, S. 111–117.
 Ulrich Eisel: Politisch korrekte Heimat? Ein polemischer Essay über politisches Engagement in der Wissenschaft sowie einige Gedanken über die Funktionsweise von Ideen. In: R. Piechocki, N. Wiersbinski [Hrsg.]: Heimat und Naturschutz. Die Vilmer Thesen und ihre Kritiker. Naturschutz und biologische Vielfalt, H. 47, Veröffentlichungen des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz, Bonn – Bad Godesberg 2007, S. 353–402. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Heimat_politisch_korrekt/Eisel_Politisch_korrekte_H__ohne_Silbentrennung_.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Landschaft – darum weiterdenken! Bemerkungen zur Diskussion über die Begriffe "Landschaft 2" und "Landschaft 3". Stadt und Grün. 56. Jg., H. 10, 2007, S. 50–57.
 Ulrich Eisel: Vielfalt im Naturschutz – Ideengeschichtliche Wurzeln eines Begriffs. In: Thomas Potthast (Hrsg.): Biodiversität – Schlüsselbegriff des Naturschutzes im 21. Jahrhundert? Erweiterte Ergebnisdokumentation einer Vilmer Sommerakademie. Bundesamt für Naturschutz, Bonn 2007, ISBN 978-3-7843-3948-1, S. 25–40 (Naturschutz und biologische Vielfalt Nr. 48).
 Ulrich Eisel: Moderne Geographie mit atavistischen Methoden. Über die undeutliche Wahrnehmung eines deutlichen Paradigmas. In: Ulrich Eisel und Hans-Dietrich Schultz: Klassische Geographie: Geschlossenes Paradigma oder variabler Denkstil? Eine Kritik von Ulrich Eisel und eine Replik von Hans-Dietrich Schultz. Humboldt-Universität, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-9809-9588-7, S. 1–37 (Berliner Geographische Arbeiten Nr. 111).
 Ulrich Eisel: Pluralistischer Schein mit praktischem Geltungsanspruch ohne Geltung. Eine Antwort auf Martin Gorkes Stimmungsbild. In: R. Piechocki, K.-H. Erdmann [Bearb.]: Naturschutzbegründungen im Visier. Konflikte um ökologische und ethische Argumentationsmuster. Veröffentlichungen des Bundesamtes für Naturschutz, BfN-Skripten 254, Bonn – Bad Godesberg 2009, S. 53–71. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Gorke-Replik/Gorke-Replik_und_Annes_Replik.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Objektivismuskritik. In: U. Eisel, S. Körner [Hrsg.]: Befreite Landschaft. Moderne Landschaft ohne arkadischen Ballast? Beiträge zur Kulturgeschichte der Natur, Band 18, 2009, S. 7–79. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Objektivismuskritik/Eisel-neuzsges_mail2009-10-15__Gueltiger_Sonderdruck.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Orte als Individuen. Zur Rekonstruktion eines spatial turn in der Soziologie. In: Ulrich Eisel: Landschaft und Gesellschaft. Räumliches Denken im Visier. In: B. Belina, B. Michel und M. Wissen [Hrsg.]: Raumproduktionen: Theorie & gesellschaftliche Praxis, Band 5, Münster 2009, S. 226–279. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Orte_als_Individuen/Eisel_Orte_als_Individuen_pdf.pdf
 Ulrich Eisel: Die Hintergründe des Raumes. Eine Einführung in die Verflechtung von einigen Gedanken. In:  Ulrich Eisel: Landschaft und Gesellschaft. Räumliches Denken im Visier. B. Belina, B. Michel und M. Wissen [Hrsg.]: Raumproduktionen: Theorie & gesellschaftliche Praxis, Band 5, Münster 2009, 15–40. https://ueisel.de/fileadmin/dokumente/eisel/Die_Hintergruende_des_Raumes/Hintergruende.pdf
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About:Memoria Press presented me with the Book of Astronomy Set to review. This comes with the student guide as well as the teacher guide. The student guide is intended for one student but you can purchase additional student books for $14.95. It is recommended for grades 3 to 5 but I think older could use it as well and still learn from it. The book goes over constellations, names of stars, motion of the earth, the seasons, and the zodiacs.
How we used: The book is broken down into four units. Each of those units are then broken down into lessons with in that unit. Each one focuses on a star, planet or constellation or like. When the lesson is presented it is then followed by an activity. These are things like drawings, questions, charts, or discussions. At the end of the completed unit there is then a complete review over the unit. The student book also contains an appendix that contains extra activity sheets. The teacher books contains all the lessons as well as the answers to the activities. There are also unit tests and a complete final test for the whole book.
We really enjoyed the lessons. They were short and to the point. This kept the daugher interested and there was not to much information thrown in at once ro confuse her. He do not own an overhead so when that was mentioned to use we just had to look at the sheet. The lessons were all fun and went nicely with the lesson. She really enjoyed drawing the constellations. This prompted her to try to find them of a night. I really love that it perked her intrest in something outside of "school time" and made her want to learn more and want to ask more questions. Our discussions at the end of lessons I think lasted much longer than the lessons did. We worked on the lessons daily. She was ready for more every day and to make sure she remembered everything we learned the day before. We didn't do the test because tests make her anxious and nervous but I don't think excluding them from the units took away from the work. I think it would work great for other kids that need that accountability though. It would also work well if you need those types of things to show in portfolios or end of the year evaluations in your homeschool.
Memoria Press is a Christian company and this book would work well for a child curious about Astronomy or for a homeschooler needing to add this into their lessons. They also offer other great topics and you can check out a few others from my crew mates by clicking the banner below. There is also other reviews on Astronomy as well. So don't just take my word for it, see what others have to say, you won't be sorry.


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Myanmar reportedly will release 4 foreigners as part of a broad prisoner amnesty
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Prison security officials prepare for the release of inmates outside Insein prison in Yangon on November 17, 2022. / AFP via Getty Images
BANGKOK — Myanmar's military government said Thursday that it will release and deport several foreigners, including an Australian economist, an ex-British ambassador and a Japanese filmmaker. Myanmar media says the releases are part of a broader amnesty of thousands to mark the country's National Day.
Australian economist Sean Turnell was a prominent adviser to deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi, who was detained the day the military seized power on Feb. 1, 2021. The 58-year old Turnell was seized by security forces at a hotel in Yangon a few days later.
Both were convicted by a military-backed court of violating a state secrets law and sentenced to three-year terms. Though Turnell will now be deported, Suu Kyi has been convicted on several more charges and faces decades in prison, with several more court cases still pending.
Former British ambassador Vicky Bowman and her husband, artist Htein Lin, are also among those being released after being detained in August for immigration violations. Japanese filmmaker Toru Kubota is also being released and deported, according to state run media. Burmese-American Kyaw Htay Oo, a former 88 Generation student activist who returned to Myanmar from the U.S. in 2017, is also being released. The 88 Generation Students is a pro-democracy movement known for its activism against the country's military junta and is named after the 1988 student-led protests against the junta in the country.
Several prominent local celebrities are also among the more than 5,770 prisoners to be set free, according to state-run MRTV, all being released, state media reported, on "humanitarian grounds."
In July, Myanmar's military executed four opponents of the regime, the first executions in the country in several decades in an effort widely seen as an effort to intimidate opponents of the regime. The four had been convicted early this year in closed door trials. Two of them were prominent democracy activists. The regime said all four had been executed in secret for carrying out "brutal and inhumane terror acts," a charge rejected by their defenders.
Myanmar has been mired in chaos since the coup, with armed resistance to the military growing by the day and no clear path to victory for either side, either as the military ramps up its attacks against those that oppose it, especially in the so-called dry zone where that resistance has been fierce.
"They've been burning down hundreds of villages, thousands and thousands of homes, displacing a huge proportion of the population in that area in an attempt to make it just impossible for people to resist, to break the connection between the armed resistance forces and the local population," says Richard Horsey, senior Myanmar analyst for the International Crisis Group, who says 20 months after the coup, the situation for many of Myanmar's people is getting more bleak by the day.
"State services continue to be in a perilous shape. The health and education systems have almost collapsed," Horsey adds, "And there are millions of internally displaced people now as well across the country. So, for many people in many parts of the country, life is really very grim."
Today's prisoner release is an exception to that trend, even as the regime continues to ignore calls for it to implement a five-point plan it agreed to with the Association of Southeast Asia nations in April 2021 to bring an immediate cessation to the violence and begin a constructive dialogue among all parties to seek a peaceful solution to the crisis.
More than 16,200 people are thought to have been detained on political charges since the coup, according to the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners. Another 2,465 civilians have been killed since the coup, according to the group, which added that the figure is thought to be higher.
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A court in Myanmar again finds Aung San Suu Kyi guilty of corruption
A court's conviction against Aung San Suu Kyi leaves her with 33 years to serve in prison following a series of politically tinged prosecutions since her government was toppled in February 2021.
Aung San Suu Kyi is convicted again in Myanmar, alongside an Australian adviser
The former prime minister was sentenced to three years for violating the official secrets act, on top of a 20-year sentence already handed down by the military junta that took power in 2021.
Myanmar authorities detain the UK's former ambassador to the country
Vickie Bowman and her husband were detained for sending information to an activist group and others opposed to military rule, a senior military official said.


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Sectors That Make Up the Dow Jones
1. Dow Jones & The Dog Theory
2. What Are the Differences Between the Dow Jones, NASDAQ & S&P 500?
3. Interesting Stock Market Facts
"The Dow" and "the market" are often used to describe fluctuations in the prices of company stocks. Both originated with the New York Stock Exchange, which for decades was the dominant stock trading system. Today both incorporate other aspects, such as the Nasdaq automated market. "The Dow" actually is the Dow Jones industrial average, one sector of Dow indexes that are used to indicate stock market trends.
Dow Start
Charles H. Dow, a co-founder of The Wall Street Journal, initiated a stock average in 1896 as a benchmark for the direction of stock prices. It originally had 12 stocks. Over the years, the industrial average was expanded to 30 stocks and two other sectors were added: transportation with 20 companies, and utilities with 15. Combined they form the Dow Jones Composite Average.
Sector Divisions
Today, Dow Jones sector indexes classify stocks in four levels: 10 broad industries, 19 supersectors, 41 sectors and 114 subsectors. The oil and gas industry, for instance, has a single supersector, oil and gas, with three sectors: producers, equipment and services and alternative energy. Each sector is split into two subsectors on specific fields.
Worldwide Indices
Now the Dow Jones Indices are a family of 830,000 indexes covering a wide range of assets around the world. It is largely owned by McGraw-Hill, publisher of the Standard & Poor's family of investment publications and producer of the Standard & Poor's 500 index, another major indicator of market activity. The two dominant index companies merged in June of 2012.
Dow Components
Until 1999, the DJIA covered only NYSE issues, but that year Microsoft and Intel from the Nasdaq market were added. The average is "weighted," so it is not computed by simply adding the prices of the stocks and dividing by 30. The 30 stocks make up about 30 percent of the total market capitalization. Of the 12 stocks in the original Dow Jones industrial average, only General Electric remains a component.
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The Handmaid's Tale season four has been delayed - find out why
The Mad Men actress has spoken about the delay filming the popular Channel 4 show
February 25, 2020 - 14:49 GMT Emmy Griffiths Elisabeth Moss has opened up about what is taking The Handmaid's Tale season four so long
The Handmaid's Tale is one of television's most popular series, but the show's star Elisabeth Moss has recently revealed that season four has been delayed - and why. Chatting to Digital Spy about why the series won't air until late 2020, she explained: "Part of the reason why it's taken a little bit longer, besides just timing, is that we are making it a bit of a bigger season this year. We're really stretching the limits of our capabilities, production wise, and we're on the move a lot."
Elisabeth opened up about the show's break
The star continued: "We're not sitting in a studio between four walls very much, so it really is a bigger season and that's taken a little [longer]. I've been in Toronto since mid-January prepping." Series three of the Channel 4 show ended on a major cliffhanger after Elisabeth's character, June, was shot after managing to help dozens of Gilead's children escape the cruel regime into Canada. Meanwhile, Serena Joy was arrested in Canada for crimes against humanity thanks to her treatment of June.
READ: The Handmaid's Tale star Elisabeth Moss calls the hit show 'shockingly relevant'
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The Mad Men actress has previously opened up about how relevant she thinks the show is to modern issues, explaining: "When people say the show is hard to watch, I get my hackles up. If you can't face our show, then how are you going to face what's actually happening in the world? It's shockingly relevant. It's important to hold that mirror up to society and to ourselves to try to get people to face what's going on, before it's too late." She added to the Radio Times: "The tougher scenes are my favourites to work on. I'm an actor, so I don't want to sit around looking happy all the time. If I do that, I get bored. I'm not a dark person, but my favourite days involve the emotional material."
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Canadian Employment Law Today
Focuses on human resources law from a business perspective, featuring news and cases from the courts, in-depth articles on legal trends and insights from top employment lawyers across Canada.
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PM41261516 Toronto police officer gets $85,000 for sexual harassment, discrimination PG.4 Worker faced sexualized comments, jokes — and even a forced kiss — from higher- ranking officers A FORMER supervisor at an Ontario group home must pay a former employee $170,000 after a campaign of sexual harassment and sexual assault against her. The worker was employed as a direct care worker for Alan Stewart Homes (ASH), a company that owns and operates a series of group homes for people with significant disabilities who are unable to live in - dependently. She started work for ASH on Jan. 28, 2016, on a three-month probationary period. The first location of her employment was a group home with eight non-verbal male residents, where she was responsible for bathing, changing diapers, dressing and feeding them. She reported directly to the residence supervisor, who was responsible for scheduling, assignment of shifts and hours for every - one working there. The scheduling was done at the discretion of the supervisor rather than seniority or any other basis. On the worker's first day of work, the supervisor remarked that she had "nice hands." This, along with some other things, made her think he was a little odd. This feeling was reinforced a few days later when he A BRITISH Columbia worker's termination was related to legitimate performance-related reasons and not because of a disability that had already been accommodated to a certain extent, the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal has ruled. FMC Canada operates a chemical plant in Prince George, B.C. It hired Neil Patzwald in March 2011 to be a maintenance team lead, managing the maintenance team at the plant and reporting to the plant manager. At the time of his hiring, Patzwald said he didn't have any management experience, but FMC said it would provide him with management training. Before FMC hired him, Patzwald had had four open-heart surgeries. However, he didn't tell FMC about them because he didn't think December 2, 2020 Termination clauses: Getting it right PG.3 Clarity is key when it comes to drafting and enforcing termination clauses in employment contracts WORKER on page 6 » CREDIT: ALEXEY REZVYKH iSTOCK SUPERVISOR on page 7 » with Stuart Rudner Sexually harassed worker gets $170,000 from supervisor Supervisor escalated unwanted behaviour; worker felt helpless and worried about losing job Ask an Expert PG. 2 Recalled worker refusing different position Disability not protection from dismissal for poor performance Employer raised concerns, developed performance improvement plan without knowledge of disability; also demonstrated willingness to accommodate BY JEFFREY R. SMITH BY JEFFREY R. SMITH
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Blinder, Alan. "After a Massacre, a Question of One More Death: The Gunman's." The New York Times, 24 February 2018, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/24/us/nikolas-cruz-parkland-florida.html. Accessed 26 Feb. 2018.
Garinger, Gail. "Juveniles Don't Deserve Life Sentences." The New York Times, 14 March 2012, http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/15/opinion/juveniles-dont-deserve-life-sentences.html?_r=0. Accessed 28 Feb. 2018.
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The first step in staying organized, keeping marketing processes consistent and focusing on data to drive results is to properly set up a Google Analytics account. It's critical to start off on the right foot when it comes to tracking how marketing efforts impact website traffic, so you can accurately measure success and make new plans down the line. That's where naming conventions come in, particularly for UTM parameters like source and medium.
Defining Google Analytics naming conventions comes in handy when you need to keep track of marketing campaigns in Google Analytics. Without them, your campaigns will become disjointed, making it difficult to accurately capture their success and how we'll they're adhering to your core strategy.
When introducing any new process to your team, you should always begin with a standard operating procedure (SOP) based on best practices. That way, all of your team members are on the same page. When people follow a clearly outlined SOP, your Google Analytics naming conventions will actually work.
The SOP should contain all of the instances where you will need to keep track of a digital campaign in Google Analytics. This especially needs to contain the standards for how paid traffic vs. organic social media should be labeled and tracked to give your team the clearest data possible.
We recommend using Google Analytics' Campaign URL Builder to create UTMs and avoid human error. This tool will do half of the work of making sure your URL follows the proper syntax and that the information you enter will match up to the correct final destination in GA.
Create a repository/library of past tracking links. This will help you to continue the naming convention standards you have set and to easily add additional assets to past campaigns.
The biggest benefit of using a clear framework is data consistency. No longer will campaigns be tracked in two separate groupings because someone mixed up the casing of a campaign name. It's easier for you to analyze data later if it is named the same way in every instance.
You're likely going to continue to add new tracking throughout the lifetime of your product. Having a standard naming convention means that each time an additional search ad or social post is created, adding UTMs will be simple and tracked in the same campaign in Google Analytics.
With organized and easy to find data, your team can easily run ongoing analyses. Teammates won't have to ask whoever implemented the tracking what's going on and where to find it. They can simply dive right in.
Hopefully with this background, you can now hit the ground running with your SOP on Google Analytics naming conventions. The specific naming conventions you define are up to you and what works for your organization. (And it's not just about UTMs, either. Don't forget your events, goals and other key GA elements.) So long as your team is on the same page with these standards and how to use them, you will be more organized and efficient with your tracking activities.
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Home » Soccer » Jamie Carragher brands Lord Sugar a 'f****** idiot' after Gerard Houllier tweet
Jamie Carragher brands Lord Sugar a 'f****** idiot' after Gerard Houllier tweet
Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher has taken a swipe at Lord Alan Sugar after his tweet regarding Gerard Houllier's death.
The former Reds manager, who managed and mentored Carragher during his early days at Anfield, passed this morning following recent heart surgery.
Lord Sugar took to Twitter to pay tribute to the Frenchman – but ended up using his message to mock long-time foe Piers Morgan.
"Sad news on Gérard Houlier. Nice fellow," The Apprentice host began by saying.
"I can imagine that @piersmorgan will devote half @gmb show telling every one how he knew him so well and go back ages."
Carragher, who had yet to tweet anything regarding Houllier's death, responded angrily to the TV host.
"Delete this you f****** idiot," Carragher tweeted in response.
Later, Carragher paid his own tribute to his former boss, saying: "Absolutely devastated by the news about Gerard Houllier, I was in touch with him only last month to arrange him coming to Liverpool.
"Loved that man to bits, he changed me as a person & as a player & got @LFC back winning trophies. RIP Boss."
Houllier became joint first-team manager of the Liverpool together with Roy Evans back in 1998, and became sole manager in November of the same year.
He went on to guide the club to FA Cup, League Cup and UEFA Cup glory before leaving the club in 2004 as Rafael Benitez led the club to a Champions League triumph.
Liverpool's official Twitter this morning tweeted: "We are mourning the passing of our treble-winning manager, Gerard Houllier.
"The thoughts of everyone at Liverpool Football Club are with Gerard's family and many friends. Rest in peace, Gerard Houllier 1947-2020."
Liverpool hero Danny Murphy said on talkSPORT: "He put in place what was needed for Liverpool to be where they are now.
"I can't even put into words the impact he made on my career. I'm the person I am now because of him."
Everton football club added: "Our thoughts are with the family of former France, Liverpool, PSG and Aston Villa manager Gerard Houllier, as well as those close to him on Merseyside. RIP Gerard."
Houllier was awarded the Légion d'honneur for his services to French football, and an honorary OBE for services to British football
Former Liverpool manager Gerard Houllier dies aged 73
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You are at:Home » Featured » Moved to give: Munsey youth help raise $60,000 for new homes
Moved to give: Munsey youth help raise $60,000 for new homes
By N&N Admin on	 November 3, 2016 Featured
Volunteers with Appalachia Service Project raise a wall in early October for a new home in Rainelle.
Cooper Reaves, right, and Maddison Kosh of Munsey Memorial United Methodist complete exterior repairs at a Rainelle, W.Va. home in mid-June. Deadly floods that hit during the church youth group's mission trip sent the group home early.
Whatever 14-year-old Cooper Reaves and his fellow youth group members from Munsey Memorial United Methodist Church may have expected when they traveled to Rainelle, WV for a mission trip in June, they got more than they bargained for.
Now, with the help of the entire church, the youth have spearheaded an effort that will give the citizens of the flood-ravaged town more than they likely expected from a group of kids from a few hundred miles away.
Reaves and his fellow students were helping repair homes in Rainelle, through a partnership with Appalachia Service Project (ASP), when it began to rain the night of June 23. It rained so much, in fact, that West Virginia experienced severe flooding that ultimately left more than 20 people dead, including five in Rainelle, and many families homeless.
Suddenly, the difficult conditions that poverty had visited upon some Rainelle residents had been dwarfed by the swift, sudden devastation flooding can bring. Reaves said the youth group initially wondered whether they would make it back to the church where they were staying, or wind up stranded at the house of a homeowner for whom they'd been doing major repair work.
Then the group members looked around at the devastation and realized how many of the people they'd met didn't have homes to return to, Reaves said. "It was pretty hard, and heartbreaking."
A day later, the group left the town – a day early, and emotionally moved by what they saw along the town's main streets.
"We just thought, 'these people are going to have to live with this for a long time, and there's not much they can do.' Once we looked around and saw, we just really knew the height of the flood and the real damage of it."
After the excitement of seeing their own families in Johnson City wore off, Reaves said, the reality of what they'd left behind set in. The youth told their parents about what they had seen and experienced. Over the next few days, the youth mission group and the church as a whole decided they needed to help Rainelle and those devastated by the flood, Reaves said.
Eventually, the group learned ASP planned a massive project to build new three-bedroom, one-bath homes for as many Rainelle residents as possible, provided they lacked insurance and sufficient means to fund the rebuilding themselves. The effort is modeled in some ways after the first "New Build" project that was borne of devastating floods in August 2012 just outside Johnson City, in Dry Creek.
In the case of "Rebuild Rainelle," thanks to other funding sources, in-kind donations and volunteer labor, a monetary match of $20,000 is enough to build a new home – and ASP hopes to build up to 50 in Rainelle. Work began in August, the first completed home was dedicated Oct. 14, and 14 others are under construction.
In early fall, an individual donor who is a Munsey member pledged enough for one house – as long as church members came up with $20,000 for a second one. The youth, with their Rainelle experience still fresh, had limited fundraising experience, but decided to host a luncheon in mid-October and dedicate proceeds to the effort.
Munsey representatives present a $60,000 check to ASP last Thursday – enough matching funds for three new homes in Rainelle, W. Va. Front (l-r): Amanda Onks (Munsey Youth Coordinator), Ashley Noe, Anna Marchessault, Katie Jackson (Munsey Youth Director), Walter Wiekel (JC UMC District Superintendent); back (l-r): Walter Crouch (ASP CEO), Blake Bullen, Cooper Reaves, Billy Crawford (Munsey Youth Director), and Abraham McIntyre (ASP Chief Volunteer Officer)
The effort gained momentum quickly, and by the date of the luncheon, a silent auction had been added into the mix. The result was nearly $12,000 in proceeds. Further motivated, the youth kept at it and by late October had been a pivotal part of raising not just $20,000, but $40,000, leaving ASP in receipt of enough matching funds to build three homes.
"You feel good, but I'm just really excited that we'll be able to build three homes for people who probably thought they were never getting their homes back," Reaves said. "That just gives me a good feeling in my heart, to know that we gave three (families) their home back and part of their life back that was taken away by the flood."
Reaves said the experience in Rainelle has changed him.
"It's really made me look at things in a new way. Before I went on the mission trip I would sometimes complain about little things in life. When I got back I realized I was just lucky to have a bed and a house to sleep in when so many people in Rainelle barely had enough money to get three meals a day and a lot of them didn't have the things we had. It really just changed the way I look at people and the things around me and really appreciate it."
Learn more about Rebuild Rainelle at asphome.org/flood.
To watch a video about the project, click here: Video
Editor's note: Abraham McIntyre of ASP contributed to this report.


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NOIA Applauds First Step Toward New 5-Year National Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program
For Immediate Release: Thursday, June 29, 2017
Contact: Nicolette Nye, (202) 465-8463, nicolette@nullnoia.org
Washington, D.C. – National Ocean Industries Association (NOIA) President Randall Luthi issued the following statement on DOI's Request for Information (RFI) on new 5-Year National Offshore Oil and Gas Leasing Program:
"Kudos to President Trump, Secretary Zinke and his team at the Department of the Interior for the forward-thinking decision to begin work on a new five year offshore oil and gas leasing plan. It is the right thing to do and Energy Week is the right time to do it.
"The Request for Information (RFI) is just the first step in a multi-year process that will involve several rounds of public participation from stakeholders, including local communities, as well as several layers of environmental review. It is also important to note this launches a process to determine a future leasing schedule, NOT a future drilling schedule. Future decisions on possible drilling must undergo their own series of public and environmental reviews. Similarly, any future efforts to actually produce offshore oil and natural gas will be subject to yet another round of similar review. Today's conversation is about assessing our options going forward, not about making any final decisions.
"A five year leasing plan is the most definitive policy action an Administration can take regarding our country's offshore energy development. Because the federal government completely controls the vast resources of the outer continental shelf (OCS), the five year plan is a greater measurement of an administration's policy decisions than current energy development seen in abundance on state and private lands elsewhere in this country, which are largely outside the scope of federal decision making.
"The energy resources on the OCS are vital to the nation's economic prosperity, and polls have repeatedly shown that most Americans want more energy to be produced domestically, including looking for more oil and natural gas resources off our shores. Opening more offshore areas for exploration would mean more jobs, new economic activity, increased energy security and the continued march towards U.S. energy dominance.
"The 2017-2022 outer continental shelf (OCS) leasing plan is one of the most energy damming actions taken in the last few years in that it actually reduced the offshore area available for potential exploration to an unprecedented low. As a result, 94% of our offshore areas are closed to any and all exploration for new sources of oil and natural gas. It appears that no other country with an offshore oil and natural gas program has closed so much of its offshore acreage. The Department of Interior now has the opportunity to begin the process to change that precedent and unleash more American energy.
"NOIA looks forward to working cooperatively and enthusiastically with stakeholders, including states, local communities, and consumer groups, and with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) to provide information about what areas to include in a new five year plan. NOIA will also continue to work closely with Congress on legislation to identify areas to include in the new program and improve the process for planning, exploring and developing our OCS resources for generations to come."
ABOUT NOIA
NOIA is the only national trade association representing all segments of the offshore industry with an interest in the exploration and production of both traditional and renewable energy resources on the nation's outer continental shelf. NOIA's mission is to secure reliable access and a fair regulatory and economic environment for the companies that develop the nation's valuable offshore energy resources in an environmentally responsible manner. The NOIA membership comprises about 300 companies engaged in business activities ranging from producing to drilling, engineering to marine and air transport, offshore construction to equipment manufacture and supply, telecommunications to finance and insurance, and renewable energy.


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Turn off heat and put a lid on the pot.
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