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Google Earth is a great tool for personal use so that students can explore various parts of the Earth on an interactive map just for fun. Then, it can also be used in the classroom as a teaching tool, especially for History/Geography teachers. In English classrooms, teachers can think of creative ways to implement Google Earth to look for countries or places of origin where a novel takes place.
There are only advantages to using Google Earth in the classroom. I would highly recommend it.
Google Earth is a useful tool that allows us to locate addresses from anywhere around the world. I know one of my employers has used this tool once when verifying my school address and afterwards describing to me the landscape of my school. It was amazing how he describes my school with pinpoint accuracy. The zoom in/zoom out feature is very useful and has a pretty amazing view. This tool is not just useful for employers, but also for anyone who wants to verify different places. If you want to go on a vacation and want to see the surrounding view beforehand, use this free tool. As a teacher, I can use this tool to show my students different locations. I highly recommend this tool for anyone who wants to see places where they're going beforehand or to anyone who just wants to see different views.
I teach a unit on genealogy where the students have to trace their roots to certain locations. It is awesome how faces light up when they use Google Earth to actually locate specific sites, homes, areas and other visual things about their family location histories. It is super simple to use and can be converted into maps and downloaded and printed as well. The value is great since many levels of cognitive learning are utilized and can be adjusted to all types of learners.
Google Earth is an online tool that allows one to explore our Earth. It is an easy tool to use as users can zoom in and out on various locations around the world. This tool can be useful in classes such as Social Science, History, English Literature, and English as a Second Language.
I can use this tool to show my students various locations around the world in relation to themselves. For example, as a teacher in South Korea, my students are not usually familiar with Western countries. This tool makes it easy for them to explore various places that we read about or discuss in the classroom.
I would recommend this tool for those teaching any subject in which a student must learn about a new country or city.
Google Earth is a tool that could be used by a science teacher, history teacher, language arts teacher, or mathematics teacher. For instance, the science teacher might want to talk about a particular lake and the animals that inhabit the lake. The teacher could check Google Earth for pictures of the lake and use these as a hook to grab students' attention and get them engaged in the learning process.
In another example, a language arts teacher might want to develop students writing ability. The teacher could use a Google Earth source (visual) in conjunction with a verbal prompt to spark her students' creative juices. Here the teacher uses a visual and verbal strategy to facilitate student learning.
I use this tool to identify the location of places around the world.It is convenient and highly useful and very accurate.What it does is to engage the students in a very stimulating and lively way.
I have used this tool in many ways most notably for teaching map skills, measuring geographical distance, and plotting locations.
It's strength is in its accuracy. It's weakness is its frequent overloading that can cause images to be blurry even from a panned out view.


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The State – 9/28/20
Lacie Hudson, Case deKoning
Movie theaters, bowling alleys and arcades are among the latest facilities set to reopen Oct. 9 after Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer signed an Executive Order which also requires face coverings for students in grades K-5.
The order allows for gatherings of up to 500 people indoors and up to 1,000 outdoors, although it all depends on the size of the venue however, with most venues having capacities much smaller than that.
James Madison College Student Senate released a statement Friday, criticizing Michigan State University Residential and Hospitality Services for furloughing more than 700 student employees on short notice.
The statement– accompanied by signatures of support from 14 student groups — claimed that the university was well aware of their fiscal budget for the Fall 2020 semester before September, all while directing RHS student workers to perform all tasks for on-campus move-in before exhausting students of their labor and liquidating them for University profit.
The JMC Student Senate has demanded that the university rehire all of the affected employees, along with a formal apology.
With many East Lansing businesses facing a financial crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic, a local business owner of a T-shirt company stepped up to help the community.
RetroDuck is currently offering a new line of shirts that prominently displays a different East Lansing business such as El Azteco or Ricks. For each purchase made, RetroDuck owner and President Luke Hackney said the store will be donating $5 to the business featured on the shirt.
Lacie Hudson
Lacie D. Hudson is a senior majoring in Journalism with a concentration in Broadcast, her ultimate career goal is to be a transparent and authentic communicator specifically in the form of reporting. She strives to be a trusted source in her role as The News Producer and Host for The State. Lacie enjoys relaying local news to students, faculty, staff and more. Lacie appreciates the platform that The State provides her with. She takes pride in being a reliable source of information through The State's...

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i am having problem.. actually i want to show order by alphabet . like
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You can achieve this by simply using pre_get_posts
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Remembering Bud Robertson
Dr. James I. "Bud" Robertson slipped the bonds of this earth on November 2, 2019, and took his place among the great historians of the ages. His boundless energy and passion for teaching our nation its history seemed to stem from an unfailing confidence in the greatness of our Country and a continued hope for its future. He believed that the key to understanding ourselves as a nation could be found in the study of our past and that the lock that fitted the key was the American Civil War. We knew him as a great historian and author; a courtly, soft-spoken gentleman who was not afraid to use his work to remind us of ourselves and push back against our country's selective memory; the voice of conscience calling to us from a more courteous time. The body of work that he has left behind – his books, his lectures, his lessons – will last far beyond the memory of the man himself. But today, we remember the man . . . husband, father, teacher, friend. . . . he will be greatly missed.
Dr. Robertson at Confederate Icons Conference
Dr. Robertson was generous in his support of the Battlefields Foundation, and spoke at many of our events over the years. His last appearance at an SVBF program was at our special conference, "Confederate Icons: History, Memory, and the Future of Our Past," which was held on July 28, 2018, at James Madison University in Harrisonburg. His talk, "The Monument War: History vs. Hypocrisy," was a memorable and stirring opening to the conference. You can watch Dr. Robertson's talk on the C-SPAN 3 (American History TV) website by clicking THIS LINK.
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"Now is the time to learn an instrument! Music is my passion, and I love to share it with my students," claims Ray Novack, who has been a musical instructor and band director for as long as Glen Urquhart, founded in 1977, has been a school. Prior to becoming the band director at GUS, Novack was the curriculum coordinator of the music department and the band director at Beverly High School for 35 years. And he's still going strong!
When he left Beverly High School five years ago, Novack wasn't ready to retire yet. He wanted to continue to practice and teach music at his own pace. Along with directing the GUS band, Novack offers private lessons for students in elementary school through college. He is also the band director at Endicott College. In addition, he manages and plays in his own band, Horizon & the Horns, which he formed in 1973. The band includes former students and Novack's daughter Kelly, which for Novack is "truly, a dream come true."
Many students, including former GUS Head of School Raymond Nance, who takes piano lessons from Novack, feel privileged to be learning from one of the best. Over his 40 year career, Novack has been lauded as an exemplary band director, much admired for his infectious positive energy. We asked Ray Novack to share "a few of his favorite things."
Favorite part about leading the band at GUS: "I love the kids' energy, their enthusiasm, and their willingness to learn. You see the smiles on their faces when they arrive, and they're ready to go, ready to learn. I love that!"
Favorite musical performances at GUS: "Solstice celebration and May Day, when the band marches through the streets of Beverly while students deliver May Day baskets to neighbors.
I was a marching band director for 35 years and believe me, it's not easy to march and play music at the same time. I'm amazed by GUS students being able to do this at such a young age."
Favorite instrument: "The accordion, because it was the first instrument I learned to play, but the piano is a close second." Novack plays eleven instruments. He learned to play five of them in high school and another six in college.
GUS band for beginners starts up in January, and Novack encourages any and all students to sign up and give it a try. The GUS band admits students in fifth through eighth grade and, potentially, fourth grade, if the student has had previous lessons. For more information, please contact Ray Novack at rnovack@gus.org and let the music play!
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John's poetic practice includes traditional and experimental forms.
His first collection Briefcase (AUP, 2011) won the NZSA Jessie Mackay Prize for Best First Poetry Book in the NZ Post Book Awards. The judges commented: "What makes Briefcase extraordinary is the way Adams' experimentation depends upon the heart as much as it depends upon the intellect. This is a debut collection that moves you as much as it challenges you, surprises you as much as it entertains you."
Hugh Roberts in New Zealand Listener described Briefcase as "intriguing and accomplished."
The poetry in Briefcase arises out of an imagined incident of domestic violence. John's legal knowledge informs poems that showcase the languages that erupt from these circumstances.
John's second collection Proving Rumpelstiltskin (currently unpublished) includes songs. Its themes explore injustices, the plight of the outsider, and longing for a lost child.John's poetry has also been published in A fine line, Brief#42, http://jacket2.org/feature/look-and-look-again and http://www.nzepc.auckland.ac.nz/features/home&away/adams-sydney.asp
John was a guest artist at Whanganui Literary Festival 2013.
He enjoys the creative opportunities of collaboration and entertaining performance. He relishes audience participation and music. John sometimes perform his poetry with the band Don't judge me!
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This blog post is a personal perspective of the Campus Safety East conference and how community involvement can positively impact school safety.
I was thrilled when I learned that Campus Safety East would be held in Philadelphia, PA. I had never visited the historical city before and couldn't wait for the experience. The city definitely lived up to my expectations. I was in awe of the older buildings and the way their architecture blended with the modern skyline. This setting reminded me of Ben Franklin and other founding fathers who built our country by challenging the status-quo, which was precisely my reason for attending this conference in the first place.
School safety is not static or stuck in time, much like the city of Philadelphia, it grows and changes.
There are some risks that are as old as our country but they have evolved in step with civilization. Every day there are new risks -- but there are also new ideas. To address risk we must collaborate and learn from each other which is what we aimed to do at Campus Safety East. The ballroom was filled with technology providers and first responders with a wide variety of products and solutions, some as old as the walkie talkie and some as new as the School Solutions Network.
We sponsored a round-table discussion for a non-profit organization that we are proud to support and work with, Safe and Sound Schools. One of the co-founders, Michele Gay, spoke on the need for schools to engage with their surrounding communities. As various School Resource Officers and mental health providers weighed in, it became clear that no one had a solution or an easy way to do what Michele was suggesting. It was at this point in the conversation that Michele turned towards me and asked me to share what we have been up to. I explained how learning from Michele had prompted our company to launch a community engagement initiative, School Solutions Network, which helps schools start or stay in communication with local businesses, non-profit organizations, and law enforcement officials. I described how providing situational awareness to an entire community could help deem their schools safe and sound. It was clear that everyone at our table agreed that schools should not be left alone in pursuit of safety and was ready to challenge the status quo by collaborating with each other, thus engaging in an ecosystem of mutual benefit.
It's a child's responsibility to go to school and pay attention, it's a teacher's responsibility to provide an education, but it's the community's responsibility to take care of them.
My history knowledge is a bit fuzzy but I'm fairly certain that building this country and keeping it safe was not the sole responsibility of Benjamin Franklin or George Washington. What would the city of Philadelphia look like today if no one challenged the status quo?


Hi folks, Basil from Manila here. Been using Excel for more than a decade now but I'm far from being an expert as my knowledge is limited to our applications of spreadsheets in our office.
Very cool forum you got here. I like the fact that you could get credible advice from experts through the internet.
I normally use Google whenever I encounter problems with Excel, or anything else for that matter. But I seem to have encountered a problem that Google doesn't have an answer to, something that's probably elementary for the members of the forum. Hope you guys could help me.
The spreadsheet that I am having a problem with is a time log tracker that basically computes for total minutes spent per work done, and also computes for the accumulated mins doing all the tasks. Users enter the start / end time of their work, the "Minutes Spent" column computes (="end time cell" - "start time cell") correctly but for some reason, the sum of the minutes spent just gets messed up when a certain cell, and all the cells that come after it, is filled in with data. Please see screenshot. The 1st image shows the sum of column G upto cell g53...but normally I use =sum(g:g). Upto this point the sum I'm getting is correct. But once I include cell g54 in the equation, the total gets messed up (bottom image). I tried tweaking the cell format, checking for discrepancies in the formulas, but can't seem to find a problem. The "total unpaid hours" column seems to be computing correctly but It might eventually get the same problem. I created the file using Excel 2010 and tried using Excel 2003 (copy pasted the data and applied the formulas) and still encountered the problem. Thanks in advance.
so that it will display hours greater than 24.


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The group will meet in Dan & Molloy's Pub on Thursday 29th October at 4:30pm.
Mass will be offered for deceased colleagues in the Church of the Assumption, Tullamore on Thursday 5th November at 12 noon.
The KWG monthly meeting will take place on Tuesday 3rd November at 8pm. At 8:30pm Christina will be giving a demonstration on how to use ready to roll fondant icing for Christmas cake decorations. All welcome to attend.
Celebrate Halloween with your children in a fun and safe environment at our disco in St. Joseph's Community Centre on Friday 30th October from 6:00pm – 7:00pm. For children aged 0-12years. Fancy dress disco €5 per child or €10 per family. Free Treat bags, Free tea/ coffee for the adults. Come along and join the fun.
The public meeting called to see what ideas people had to boost Kilcormac and the opportunities that are on our doorstep was very well attended on Thursday 15th of October last. Following a very open and frank meeting where all attending expressed both the positives and negatives about the area and came up with some very worthwhile and thought provoking ideas it was decided that the group would meet again to try and progress some of the ideas further. The next meeting is on Thursday 5th November 2015 at 8.30pm in St. Joseph's Community Centre and again anyone still interested in attending are very welcome to come along on the night.
The chiropodist will be in St. Joseph's Community Centre on Wednesday from 10am – 1pm.
Kilcormac Men's Shed had a general meeting last Thursday night, 22nd October. We had our best turnout to date and there were numerous suggestions for projects in our community. We are very thankful for the support and good will from our community. We would especially like to thank Kilcormac Development Association and Offaly Local Development Company for their continued help and support. We are looking forward to getting stuck in over the coming months. If you would like to be part of the shed call into us any Monday or Thursday evening after 7pm. If you would like further information please contact Sean on (089) 4052528.
On Thursday 12th November are going to Fernhill Garden Centre, Athlone for the launch of their Christmas Fair. The bus will be leaving the Square Kilcormac at 5:30pm sharp, the bus fare is €8. Names as soon as possible to Eileen 057 91 35152 or 086 8417617 or Rose 085 1596689.
We wish to give our sincerest apologies for the cancellation of our meeting which was due to take place on Monday 19th October, due to unforeseen circumstances we were forced to cancel, again our apologies.
Due to the mid-term break, the group will not be meeting on Thursday 28th October, our next day to meet in on Thursday 5th November from 11am – 12:30pm in St. Joseph's Community Centre. It is for children aged 0-5years, €3 per family.
Killoughey Community Alert committee met to assess the progress of the community alert project. Signage announcing the parish is a community alert area are erected at most of the entrance roads to the parish and some of the major internal junctions. The text alert system is up and running and by most accounts is functioning well. If you have applied for the text messages and are not receiving them, or would like to get on the system, please contact Danny Owens, 0871271526, or Jim Casey, 0863852725. Personal alarms have been installed in many of the homes that requested them. Again, If you have not received yours, or did not apply for one and would like to do so, please contact Danny or Jim. The next project the committee is undertaking is to print a flyer with important community and emergency numbers. The last listing was printed before the change from 0506 to 057 93. If you have suggestions for inclusions please contact Imelda Rosney, Danny or Jim.
Guitar lessons with Daithi Melia will take place in Kilcormac Childcare on Wednesday evenings from 5.45pm. Each lessons has a group of 4/5 others, lessons lasting 45 minutes and costing €10 per person. Beginners and experienced students welcome. Please contact 086 8914392 for more details.
The widely sought after ECDL course is being offered in Kilcormac Childcare Centre from Wednesday 4th November. This course will run over 18 weeks from 7pm to 9.45pm covering six modules. Price is €245 which includes exams and laptops will be provided. Deposit of €35 payable to secure a place, weekly payments thereafter. Limited places available, so please contact us soon on 086 8914392 or email kilcormacchildcare@gmail.com.
The Chiropodist will be in Ard Aoibhinn on Friday 13th from 3:30pm onwards. There will be house calls on Monday 16th from 4:30pm.


The GSA will be holding its first ever Study Jam!
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Come take a study break from all your exams and final essays with the Greek Students Association! We will be providing free coffee and doughnuts for our members, so drop by our office at any time between 12 and 5 pm.


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Home Sweet Home: Kentucky Bridge Project Successfully Attracts Endangered Bats to Roost
FRANKFORT, Ky. – A Kentucky bridge with flaking concrete, large cracks and exposed, rusted steel was a growing safety concern for the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet (KYTC) and also home for thousands of endangered gray bats. Overcoming the infrastructure and environmental dilemma, a KYTC project team designed a bat-friendly bridge that has proven to be a successful habitat for the species and safe connection for local motorists.
"This bridge project is the first of its kind in Kentucky, using an innovative and collaborative approach to mitigate the effects of much-needed bridge repairs on an important endangered species," KYTC Secretary Jim Gray said. "KYTC delivered a new bridge that is not only safe for motorists but is now providing habitat for an estimated 1,100 gray bats."
The core of the gray bat population lies in the karst regions of Kentucky and Tennessee, roosting primarily in caves. Historically the species has been found in the midwestern and southeastern United States, in an area roughly from Kansas to West Virginia and from Indiana to Florida. Bats can also use bridges and culverts that have cave-like qualities for shelter from rain and predators.
To prevent interference with the bat habitat, KYTC is not releasing the location of the bridge. It is a two-lane, concrete box beam bridge carrying a state highway in a rural area. A 2018 inspection through the Bridging Kentucky program identified significant cracking and spalling of the concrete. Heavy guano staining was also visible underneath the bridge.
"Thousands of bats had made a home in the cracks and crevices between the deteriorating beams," said Danny Peake, Director of the KYTC Division of Environmental Analysis. "It was clear the bridge needed to be repaired, but we wanted to minimize adverse effects and be sensitive to the survival needs of the bats."
A project team comprised of engineers and ecologists reviewed similar structures in other states that had a habitat-focused design. KYTC also worked with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for biological expertise and guidance on the timing of the project.
"The gray bat has been on the Endangered Species list since 1976 and continues to face threats from habitat conversion and white-nose syndrome," said Lee Andrews, field supervisor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Kentucky Field Office. "KYTC's success in preserving bat habitat on this bridge is tremendous and could serve as a model for other projects."
The bridge rehabilitation involved repairs to the existing abutment and piers and replacement of the bridge superstructure with new beams, deck and railing. Rather than placing the box beams right next to each other, the new beams were set with 1.5-inch gaps. The intentional gaps do not affect the safety of the bridge, but they do provide more available roosting space than the bats previously had on the deteriorating structure.
Ecologists conducted a bat survey under a KYTC bridge that was repaired in 2021. The bridge was designed to create animal habitat for the gray bat, an endangered species.
Construction on the bridge took place in January and February of this year while bats were hibernating elsewhere in caves. Ecologists conducted bat emergence surveys throughout the summer to count how many bats had returned to the bridge. In June, the count was estimated at around 400 bats. By August, that number had nearly tripled. Ecologists also noted the presence of bat pups, an encouraging sign for the species and overall success of the project.
"The bat bridge project is another example of how Kentucky is working hard to repair and replace critical infrastructure across the state, and there's been significant activity – more than 300 projects completed – under the Bridging Kentucky program. Through a collaborative effort, we are building bridges that meet safety, budget, design and environmental requirements," said Royce Meredith, KYTC program manager for Bridging Kentucky.
KYTC will continue to monitor the bridge for bat activity over the next five years. A video highlighting the project can be found here.
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Here's how the H2O program works: After you register on H2O website, you can record your outdoor activities in Iowa parks and recreational areas. Each recorded activity counts as an entry into a prize drawing for outdoor gear– from bikes to binoculars to a vacation getaway. The more outdoor activities you register, the more chances you have to win. Log in today to get started! Participants who log activities between now and August 31, 2013 are eligible to win an Iowa State Park camping coupon book.
Des Moines Water Works and Iowa DNR is providing free water at the Iowa State Fair in the Department of Natural Resources building. Bring your reusable water bottle to the Fair and fill up!
Get Healthy and Happy Outdoors Today!
If you're looking for a way to get healthier, a new program from the Iowa Department of Natural Resources in partnership with Des Moines Water Works and several Iowa organizations, provides you resources and recognition for spending more time outdoors.
The Healthy & Happy Outdoors initiative, or H2O, connects you to Iowa's natural resources and helps you enjoy an active lifestyle.
Get outside. Log your outdoor recreation activities on the H2O website.
Need some recommendations? Find more than 1,600 recreation locations across the state in an interactive map (including Water Works Park and Maffitt Reservoir Park) along with suggestions for outdoor opportunities you might enjoy.
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BBVA's app exceeds 5 million individual Android users
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Our mobile phones have become an extension of ourselves. Even more so when looking at markets like Spain where there is significant smartphone market penetration. That's why BBVA has committed its firm support to creating a unique experience for its customers using mobile devices. The data validates the positive progress made by the business in this digital channel. The bank's app in Spain has just surpassed 5 million downloads by individual Android users, and at the close of March, the number of mobile customers exceeds 3.4 million.
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Android has just awarded BBVA with a seal recognizing that since it was made available, 5 million individual users in Spain have downloaded the bank's app from Google Play with the flow of downloads surging in the past two years. How does one tally these numbers? Google has found a reliable way to know how many users have an application, since they only count the download per user account. In other words, they do not count updates or the number of times the app is downloaded, but rather count the users who do the downloading.
Seals awarded by Android recognize those applications that have 1, 2, 5, and 10 million downloads, figures that no other Spanish financial institution has achieved. BBVA leads the ranking in downloads, and is looking to achieve the highest distinction awarded by Google for downloads.
The mobile phone, at the center of the customer relationship
According to the report, Sociedad Digital, recently published by Telefónica, half of Spanish youth are "mobile first", meaning that 90% to100% of the total time they spend on the internet, they are using their small screens. But the smartphone revolution has gone much further. The mobile device has managed to break through age barriers and has digitalized segments of the population that were harder to reach through computers.
Proof of these numbers lies in the exponential growth of BBVA mobile logins. A year and a half ago, 15 million monthly logins were registered on the web and 20 million through the app. Currently, web access has grown to 16 million logins per month, but mobile access has shot up to 43 million logins in a single month in Spain alone.
Both the surge of mobile devices, as well as the simplicity and usability of BBVA's app, have contributed to reaching the landmark of 5 million Android downloads by individual users since the launch of the application.
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In the coming years, customers will be much more demanding; they will expect not only new experiences, but also that all our services will be perfectly integrated and available on a smartphone.
Examples of this can be seen in some of the recent digital tools launched by BBVA, tools that are meant to accompany our customers during the most important moments of their lives.
BBVA users can access functionalities like BBVA Invest, a new, multichannel way customers can assess and sign up for investment funds; Baby Planner helps plan for the arrival of a new addition to the family; and BBVA Valora helps in the decision-making process when buying or renting a home, showing the customer the expenses associated with buying and its revaluation. Each quarter our digital tools have been improved and new tools have been introduced, showing the customer all the data needed in the decision-making process. Additionally, functionalities such as Bconomy keep the customer up to speed on his or her financial health so appropriate decisions can be made.
At present, more than 90% of the services that can be contracted in BBVA's network of physical branches are also available on the app. A focus that is already showing tangible results in the form of sales, since a third of sales come from digital channels.
With the aim of responding more quickly and appropriately to the challenges presented by customers, BBVA uses agile methodology to develop its tools. The results are telling: customers are recommending BBVA more and more; and the market and external consultancies like Forrester have also recognized the bank's progress.
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Last summer, Forrester Research recognized the BBVA app as the best financial sector app in the world. Among other factors, the report underscored the convenience associated with being able to do everything from the mobile phone (from signing up with a "selfie" to setting up a direct debit with only a photo). There is also personalized assessment for financial management and making important decisions (tracking deposits and expenses with "My Day to Day" or buying a home with the help of BBVA Valora).
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The pop culture/humor magazine that celebrates the stuff we loved when we were kids -- and still do!
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LOST IN SPACE-Through a (Magic) Mirror
By Bruce Fedow (8/27/20)
When you are a child of five most words spoken to you by well-meaning adults are heard in the voice of Charlie Brown's teacher. But images-now that's another story. At that age, an awesome (or frightening) image can be burned into your memory, sometimes forever. I remember little from those years, save images of monsters from television shows like The Outer Limits and from Lost in Space.
My father and brother loved sci-fi, and the night Lost in Space was to premiere, the male portion of my family was glued to the screen of the one black and white Zenith television that we owned. The one image that, fifty-five years later, still sticks in my mind is when Professor John Robinson, played by Zorro's Guy Williams, takes his walk in space and snaps his tether. After the climactic cliff-hanger — would his family rescue him or was he to be lost in space forever? — I ran to the kitchen holding a Kleenex box (my makeshift space pack) for my upcoming spacewalk. When you're five you are not allowed to walk in space alone, I soon learned.
Thus began the weekly ritual where we followed he adventures of
the Space Family Robinson until January, when HE arrived on the television screen…the Caped Crusader! Watching Lost in Space after that was sporadic to say the least, although I must admit I, along with the rest of the country, was enthralled with the adventures of Batman and Robin twice a week-almost but not quite as much as the Robinsons.
As Christmas approached I asked (begged) my parents to get me the Remco Lost in Space robot. As usual, my older brother got it instead of me but that was cool; we played with it together, gluing the claws back on after they snapped off and re-taping the stickers for his tread section onto his plastic body when they fell off. Selling that robot helped me pay for the first month's rent on my first apartment many years later!
During Lost in Space's third season we went to my Aunt Wanda's house on a Wednesday, where she let me watch my first episode of Lost in Space in color! Granted, it was "Deadliest of the
Species," a mediocre episode at best, where the Robinsons' robot falls in love with a malevolent female robot, but to see the actors, props and sets in color was a treat. Sadly, the great night came to a terrifying end when Aunt Wanda took out her false teeth and chased me around the living room with them until I cried. No day is perfect!
My father and brother collected and built a lot of models in those days (I was a year away from doing complicated stuff like that) and so we had an Aurora Plastics Corp. Lost in Space robot as well as the Cyclops and Chariot model on a shelf in "the boys" bedroom. The other collectibles from the series such as the board game and space helmet were not available in my neighborhood, but I did get a Lost in Space lunchbox a year or two after the series ended from the discount rack at the drugstore of all places. I still have it displayed proudly in my room, complete with thermos.
Lost in Space hit the syndicated air waves in 1969, and in New
York it was broadcast on WNEW channel Five every day after school. It was then I finally got to see all the episodes I had missed, this time in color, and recorded them all on audio tapes, first reel to reel then on audio cassettes, way before the advent of DVD or even VHS.
By 1974, after having seen other Lost in Space and sci fi home produced "fanzines" I decided to create my own, and Lost in Space Forever! was born. After eight or nine issues I called it a day and turned the reigns over to someone who got a lot more interviews with Lost in Space stars and guest stars then I ever did. My issues were still better!
My days as an editor at LISF! were very interesting, to say the least. I had limited access to celebrities for interviews, but Robert "Big Buck" Maffei was one of them. He played the Cyclops monster in the Lost in Space pilot for the scenes with the miniature Chariot model but was replaced by Lamar Lundy for the location shoots after he and Irwin had a disagreement. A friend in California interviewed Robert, sent me the tape, and gave him my phone number. He would call me "long distance" and we had a lot of great conversations and he sent me several different autographed pictures.
My friend David and I interviewed Stanley Adams, the infamous Tybo the Carrot Man in the "Great Vegetable Rebellion" episode of Lost In Space (and from the fan favorite Star Trek episode "The Trouble With Tribbles"), at the 1976 Star Trek Bi-Centennial Convention. Riding up in the elevator, David and I realized we had no questions to ask him (hey we were new at this!) so we quickly scribbled a few on a brown paper bag before we reached his suite. The first thing Stanley said to me was, "Your name is Bruce? You're not
gay are you?", an obscure reference to the belief that Bruce Wayne and Dick Grayson were homosexual lovers. Then he laughed. I didn't take it personally, and we got a great interview for the fanzine. I corresponded with him by mail several times until his untimely passing. I also interviewed Jonathan Harris/Dr. Smith in those days. More on that later.
Since then, real life showed up, and I got real jobs and a real family of my own. Occasionally I found time to meet the stars of Lost in Space and get an autograph and photo with them, as well as amass a good-sized collection of scripts, photos, etc, and contribute to several Lost in Space reference books.
My encounters with the stars of Lost in Space were stories in themselves. I waited in line at the New Jersey Chiller Convention to see June Lockhart (Maureen Robinson) and get her autograph. The gentleman ahead of me on line was having an animated if lengthy conversation with June, and at one point the exasperated lady behind me told him to shut up and leave so the rest of us could get our turn with Ms. Lockhart. June heard this and politely, if sternly, put the young woman in her place! I wanted to give the obnoxious young lady the finger but was afraid of the wrath of Maureen Robinson so I refrained.
Bruce Fedow with Bill "Will Robinson" Mumy
I met Mark Goddard (Major Don West) at Chiller as well, and his son took a picture of the two of us together. We had met previously backstage at a Broadway theatre, again thanks to my good buddy David, where Mark was a featured performer in Liza Minelli's Broadway show The Act. This time David and I forgot to bring a Sharpie so Mark signed our photos with an orange pen he had.
I first encountered Marta Kristen (Judy Robinson) and Angela Cartwright (Penny Robinson) at Chiller as well. A few years later they saw photos I had of each of them for sale on eBay and through mutual friends requested copies of these as they had never seen these pictures before! I sent them two copies of each photo-one to keep and one of each to autograph for me…hey, when Judy and Penny ask you for a favor how can you say no?
Bill Mumy (Will Robinson) and I first met at a New York convention years before Chiller. A group of his admirers and I treated Bill to lunch at an East side deli that I knew that served Beck's Beer, Bill's beer of choice at the time. We all chatted and later posed with him for pictures.
Seeing Bob May, the man inside the Lost in Space robot for the first time at Chiller was a treat. I saw him many times after that at New York conventions, and he always remembered my name when I stopped by his table to say hello. He was a real sweetheart.
Last but not least, Jonathan Harris (the nefarious Dr. Zachary Smith)…our friendship began in the 1970's when I interviewed him for my Lost in Space Forever! fanzine by mail. I sent him a cassette tape and a list of
Bruce Fedow with Mark "Don West" Goddard
questions, but, as his recorder was on the fritz, I instead got back the interview with answers, typed by himself, in a large envelope with a recent autographed photo. As he did with almost all his fans, he wrote me a letter or two after that and even sent a Christmas card.
It's easy to explain why five-year-old me was fascinated with the Robinsons, Don, Dr. Smith and the robot, but why, all these years later, now that I have aged like a fine bottle of Ripple, does it still appeal to me so much? Part of it is nostalgia…my parents are long gone, my siblings have moved away with lives of their own, and although life has been very good to me since then, I can never get those Wednesday nights in front of the Zenith with my family back. Part of it is the wonderful actors, along with their costumes, gadgets and sets that still thrill me even though I've seen every episode a hundred times. And part of it is the future world of 1997 that never came to be-twenty-three years after the fact, we still don't travel in jet packs or Chariots or flying saucers. Maybe, just maybe, someday I will slide into an alternate universe with an alternate Earth, and if I'm lucky can stowaway on the spaceship carrying America's first family into space and share in their adventures.
(c) Greasy Kidstuff Magazine 2020


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Publications by: Richard Arculus
Also publishes as (Richard J. Arculus)
Price, Richard, Spandler, Carl, Arculus, Richard, and Reay, Anthony (2011) The Longwood Igneous Complex, Southland, New Zealand: a Permo-Jurassic, intra-oceanic, subduction-related, I-type batholithic complex. Lithos, 126 (1-2). pp. 1-21.
Spandler, Carl, Hermann, Joerg, Faure, Kevin, Mavrogenes, John A., and Arculus, Richard J. (2008) The importance of talc and chlorite ''hybrid'' rocks for volatile recycling through subduction zones; evidence from the high-pressure subduction melange of New Caledonia. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 155 (2). pp. 181-198.
Keller, Nicole S., Arculus, Richard J., Hermann, Jorg, and Richards, Simon (2008) Submarine back-arc lava with arc signature: Fonualei Spreading Center, northeast Lau Basin, Tonga. Journal of Geophysical Research: solid earth, 113. pp. 1-28.
Spandler, Carl, Mavrogenes, John, and Arculus, Richard (2005) Origin of chromitites in layered intrusions: evidence from chromite-hosted melt inclusions from the Stillwater Complex. Geology, 33 (11). pp. 893-896.
Spandler, Carl, Worden, Kurt, Arculus, Richard, and Eggins, Steve (2005) Igneous rocks of the Brook Street Terrane, New Zealand: implications for Permian tectonics of eastern Gondwana and magma genesis in modern intra-oceanic volcanic arcs. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics, 48 (1). pp. 167-183.
Spandler, Carl, Hermann, Joerg, Arculus, Richard, and Mavrogenes, John (2004) Reply to comments on ''Redistribution of trace elements during prograde metamorphism from lawsonite blueschist to eclogite facies: implications for deep subduction zone processes''. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 148 (4). pp. 506-509.
Spandler, Carl, Hermann, Joerg, Arculus, Richard, and Mavrogenes, John (2004) Geochemical heterogeneity and element mobility in deeply subducted oceanic crust; insights from high-pressure mafic rocks from New Caledonia. Chemical Geology, 206 (1). pp. 21-42.
Spandler, Carl, Hermann, Joerg, Arculus, Richard J, and Mavrogenes, John M (2003) Redistribution of trace elements during prograde metamorphism from lawsonite blueschist to eclogite facies; implications for deep subduction-zone processes. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 146 (2). pp. 205-222.
Spandler, Carl J., Arculus, Richard J., Eggins, Stephen M., Mavrogenes, John A., Price, Richard C., and Reay, Anthony J. (2003) Petrogenesis of the Greenhills Complex, Southland, New Zealand: magmatic differentiation and cumulate formation at the roots of a Permian island-arc volcano. Contributions to Mineralogy and Petrology, 144 (6). pp. 703-721.


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The Intellectual Position of Christians
by E. M. Caillard
Volume 7, 1896, pgs. 538-544
IX-THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY
The briefest reflection suffices to make evident the deep and intimate connexion which the Christian doctrine, forming the title of the present essay, bears to the whole subject which we have now for many months been considering. That subject is the Intellectual Position of Christians,--the position which belongs to them in virtue of their religious belief, and which therefore cannot belong to any who are not Christians. Now the resurrection of the body may justly be regarded as a test--article of the Christian creed viewed in relation to the intellectual position of those who hold it, and that for two reasons: (1) Because from the earliest times was proclaimed as fundamental, [See I Cor. xv. 12-20; Rom. viii. 11; Acts xiii. 34-38; xvii. 31, 32; Phil. iii. 21, and many other passages.] and (2) Because of the profound and characteristic significance which, in view of modern scientific knowledge, it gives to the belief in immortality.
This belief is, of course, not peculiar to Christianity. We find it in one form or another in nearly all the great religions of the world; sometimes taking the form of re-absorption into the Divine universal Being, sometimes in the sensual delights of a Mahommedan paradise, sometimes in the melancholy survival in shadowy regions of "bloodless, bodiless ghosts," deprived with the loss of the body of all those warm and intimate connexions with the physical environment which enter so largely into our ordinary human idea of life.
In turning from these various conceptions to examine that which is characteristic of Christianity, we find a recognition all consecration of what is highest in them all.
Before pursuing the subject further, however, it will be of advantage to recapitulate, very briefly, the line of thought hitherto followed, and state the conclusions which have been arrived at.
In Essays I. and II. it was pointed out that there is a fundamental contradiction in the ordinary scientific conception of the Order of Nature, because the human attributes of self-conscious intelligence and volition, which, according to the theory of evolution, are the outcome of that Order find no place in it. In Essays III. and IV. we found that according to the Christian Revelation the Personal Being of God is the basis of the Order of Nature, of that variety in unity, whose fit and necessary culmination is the personality of the creature. In Essays V. and VI. it was shown that in the deeper teachings of science there is nothing to contradict, but much to corroborate this view of the matter. In Essay VII. we reviewed the ethical aspect of the question, and found that the very ideal Creation, Sonship, implies and necessitates a freedom which can be abused, that it have been abused, and that the only remedy lies in a return to obedience through the things which we suffer. Finally, in Essay VIII., the necessity of realizing the universal and eternal aspect of the Life of Christ, instead of resting in the partial and historical aspect, was shown, while at the same time it was pointed out that only through the historical can we reach the universal.
The argument thus briefly recapitulated, must have been even more inadequate to its subject than the writer fears, if it has not to some extent made clear that the great strength of the intellectual appeal of Christianity lies in its comprehensive. No part of our complex nature is left out of account; and, moreover, the intimate connexion between ourselves and the rest of the creation is fully acknowledged, the latter being specially included in that "redemption of the body," which is so profoundly characteristic of Christian hope and faith. The recognition of the material is therefore a distinguishing mark of Christianity, and of the inspired Christian writings. Man is never treated in the New Testament as if he were only "an immortal soul" as so many expounders of and commentators on the New Testament have treated him, to the great detriment both of faith and practice. The words in which our Lord proclaims His own relation to the resurrection,--those great words which stand at the head of our Burial Service, and which have afforded such unspeakable consolation to countless mourning hearts: "I am the Resurrection and the Life; he that believeth on Me though he die yet shall he live, and he that liveth and believeth on Me shall never die," would be strained out of all natural connexion with the peculiar circumstances under which they were spoken, and deprived of their most obvious sense if we did not understand them to refer to the whole man, soul and body alike. [St. John xi. 17-45] Again, in His answer to the hypothetical case with which the Sadducees, who believed neither "in angel nor spirit," endeavoured to perplex Him, He enters into no argument, and adduces no considerations in favour of the immortality of the soul, but simply reminds His questioners that the living God cannot be the God of the dead, and that since they call Him the God of Abraham, of Isaac and of Jacob, they themselves testify that Abraham, Isaac and Jacob live as "all live, unto Him." Not more in those days than in these would "life" be separated in the minds of ordinary men from all that makes life a reality to them under actual conditions. If desire, love, hope, memory could not be annihilated without the annihilation of the individual soul which desires, loves, hopes, remembers, neither could they, failing of any physical expression, be what men, being men, mean by them.
Now this same truth is what modern science is constantly reiterating in the assertion that mind and body,--so far as our experience goes,--are inseparable, and that we cannot have a human mind apart from the human brain, which is its necessary correlative. There is not the smallest shadow of a doubt that this teaching, becoming almost daily more wide-spread and irrefutable, does undermine the doctrine of "the immorality of the soul"; but then this doctrine is not Christian. What the Christian creed teaches is the indestructibility of both soul and body, which have alike received the Divine impress, and are alike included in the all-embracing redemption of the "Word made flesh." The difficulties that are supposed to surround the subject are almost all shadows, which, once brought into the light, are immediately recognized for the unsubstantial illusions which they are. Not of course that we are freed from mystery; that confronts us here and everywhere. The fact that soul and body are united now, is quite as much beyond explanation as that once united they are inseparable, and that death destroys neither. In fact the first mystery is by far the most profound: on the two last modern science does throw some light if we will avail ourselves of it.
It is of course true that at one time the great body of the Christian Church believed, as the ignorant and unreflecting among its members believe to this day, that the resurrection of the body meant the re-informing with organic life of the very same material particles which entered into the constitution of the body at the time of its death. It is quite possible for Christians to hold this belief, if they are not sufficiently instructed to perceive its intrinsic absurdity, just as it was possible for Christians to hold the opinion that the sun revolved round the earth. But we have no right at all, because want of knowledge and thought, or crude and unverified scientific theories have fathered upon Christian doctrines impossible interpretations of the truths which they express, to look upon the doctrines as standing or falling with the false interpretations. Those persons who hold that the Resurrection means the revivifying of the same material particles which compose the body at the time of death, would also naturally believe that at that period all the particles of matter which had ever formed part of the body since birth, did so still. Now we know on the contrary that the matter composing the body at any given instant, is in a continual state of change. Waste, decay, repair go on all through life, and a man who dies at an average age has certainly changed his whole body several times. This has not interrupted the continuity of either his mental or his physical existence. We are therefore making a very unwarrantable assumption if we assert that it must even be interrupted, much less annihilated, because a more comprehensive and apparently more sudden change takes place at death than during life. What we are assuming is that life and consciousness are indissolubly associated with a particular agglomeration of material particles. This is demonstrably untrue, because life and consciousness have preserved their continuity ever since birth in association with different material particles. What they are apparently indissolubly connected with is some kind of formative power which builds up the body. We have no data whatever upon which to found the assertion that because we do not see that formative power at work upon one particular set of particles, therefore it has ceased to exist. On the contrary, analogy would lead us to precisely the opposite conclusion, for the very essence of this power appears to consist in perpetually utilizing fresh and fresh matter. Without doubt we have here a profound mystery: it is the mystery of life, which not the wisest and most diligent students of nature have yet arrived even at stating in terms that do more than reveal the complete ignorance of those who formulate them. How foolish then to perplex ourselves by defining and measuring the scope of that whose most familiar manifestations lie so far beyond our understanding, and of which one of the most certain and important things we know is that it is not dependent for continuance upon association with any special portions of matter.
Perhaps one difficulty which the writer has heard stated in connexion with this subject may be mentioned here. It is that if the union between soul and body is not an arbitrary connexion, lasting for the short period of life on earth and then dissolved, but a union which belongs to "the nature of things,"--in fact, an expression of the will of God,--how can we reconcile this with the axiom which is one of the cornerstones of physical science, that the quantity of matter in the universe is constant: i.e., that none is ever either created or destroyed. Granting this, must there not come a time when all the available matter will be used up by the continually increasing demand upon it? Without going into any speculations, dangerous in the present state of knowledge, as to what the functions of the "ether" might be in this respect,--that invisible, intangible medium which pervades all space, and interpenetrates all matter, and through whose agency we are sensible alike of heat, of light, and of electrical phenomena, it suffices to remark that the axiom of the uncreatibility of matter belongs only to the known universe. However far we may extend its boundaries, we cannot now persuade ourselves that they are all embracing, so that beyond what we know or can infer there lies nothing. The late Professor Clifford has some striking observations on this subject which well deserve attention: "Before the time of Copernicus," he says, "men knew all about the universe. They could tell you in the schools pat off by heart all that it was, and what it had been, and what it would be......Its history could be traced back to a certain definite time when it began; behind that was a changeless eternity that needed no further history. Its future could be predicted in general terms as far forward as a certain epoch,.....but after that would come again a changeless eternity, which was fully accounted for and described. But in any case the universe was a known thing. Now the enormous effect of the Copernican system and of the astronomical discoveries that followed it is, that in place of this knowledge of a little which was called knowledge of the Universe, of Eternity and Immensity, we have now got knowledge of a great deal more; but we only call it the knowledge of Here and Now. We can tell a great deal about the solar system, but after all it is our house and not the city. We can tell something about the star-system to which our sun belongs, but after all it is our star-system and not the universe. We are talking about Here with the consciousness of a There beyond it, which we may know some time, but do not at all know now." Professor Clifford then goes on to show that even our knowledge of space is limited in the same way: "The geometer of to-day knows nothing about the nature of actually existing space at infinite distance . . . He knows indeed that the laws assumed by Euclid are true with an accuracy no direct experiment can approach, not only in this place where we are, but in places at a distance from us that no geometer has conceived; but he knows this of Here and Now. Beyond his range is a There and Then of which he knows nothing at present, but may ultimately come to know more." [Clifford "Philosophy of the Pure Sciences." in vol. I. of "Lectures and Essays."]
What a comment is this language of agnostic science on our Lord's words to the Sadducees: "Is it not for this cause that ye err that ye know not.....the power of God?" [St. Matt. xii. 24] Here and Now, through the action of that Divine power, the union between spirit and matter is one of the great facts of the universe: it is the condition of self-conscious life as man knows it. There and Then we are told by the Christian revelation that, by the action of the same power, it will be one of the great facts of the universe still, that self-conscious life will still for man be human.
Thus we are comforted by the assurance, impossible to a science of Here and Now, that the mode of existence to which we are to look forward will not be altogether strange, but rather the perfecting and exalting of that with which in a lower stage we are already familiar. Further than this "it is not yet made manifest what we shall be," [1 John iii. 2] save that "we shall be like Him" in Whom we are created, and Who is "the Image of the invisible God, the Firstborn of all creation," [Col. i. 15] for "we shall see Him even as He is." [1 John iii. 2] In that vision all doubts will be answered, all difficulties resolved, all shadows dispelled. What wonder that in anticipation of its ineffable light and truth one apostle warns us that "he that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as He is pure;" [1 John iii. 3] and another cheers us with the encouraging words: "Be ye steadfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." [1 Cor. xv. 58]


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Naya Rivera: How "Glee" Helped Femme Lesbians Feel Seen
8/23/2020 by Sarah Rosenberg
Naya Rivera as Santana Lopez on "Glee." (Mike Ownby / Flickr)
The early 2000s can be described as both the best and worst of times with regard to the portrayal of lesbians and female sexuality in mainstream media. In the TV landscape, although many gay and lesbian centered shows were gaining mainstream appeal—partly due to the success of programs like "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy" and "The L Word"—it almost never accurately presented a picture of female homosexuality for coming-of-age youth.
During the decade, the three biggest networks aimed at kids, teens and young adults were Disney, Nickelodeon and MTV. Of the three, MTV was the only one to show homosexuality on-screen. However, when it came to lesbian and bisexual female representation, it largely presented female queerness in the most stereotypical, sexualized manner possible.
One of the most well-known examples of this was during the 2003 MTV Video Music Awards. During a performance, popstars Madonna, then 45, and Britney Spears, then 21, engaged in what we now know to be a pre-planned "faux-lesbian" kiss onstage in front of over ten million viewers. At the time, that five-second moment sparked backlash, with fellow artist Bette Midler calling the stunt "tacky and irresponsible."
A few years later, in 2009, a little show called "Glee" premiered on FOX, marking a significant milestone in the lives of LGBTQ+ teens and young adults. The show was often praised for its depiction of teen gay and lesbian characters, especially early on with Kurt's iconic coming-out scene in the fourth episode of the series.
While this scene and Kurt's status as a main character (virtually unheard of on cable TV at the time) were significant in terms of LGBTQ+ representation, Kurt was still portrayed as a stereotypical gay man: He loves fashion and musical theater, he's more comfortable in his friendships with girls and he often engages in "predatory" behavior towards heterosexual character Finn.
Meanwhile, one character who steered away from stereotypes—making many young lesbian women finally feel seen—was Santana Lopez, played by the recently-passed Naya Rivera.
In the beginning of the series, Santana was merely the shallow, sexually promiscuous, mean-girl sidekick to head cheerleader and queen bee Quinn Fabray (Dianna Agron). However, Santana quickly became a fan-favorite for her witty and hilarious one-liners and savage, spicy attitude.
(Mike Ownby / Flickr)
Her strengths, both as a character and musically, were revealed during the episode "Laryngitis" in the form of a duet rendition of Monica and Brandy's "The Boy is Mine" with Mercedes Jones (Amber Riley). In that moment, Glee fans—a.k.a. "Gleeks"—knew something special was happening.
And they weren't alone. The show runners also saw new potential for Santana that wasn't originally intended because of the way Rivera brought the character to life. As Rivera wrote in her autobiography:
"I tried to think of ways I could make Santana stand out, even though she didn't have any lines [in the pilot]. I figured that if she was the bitchy sidekick, then I was going to make her a megabitch with extra kick … My first line [in the second episode "Showmance"] was a snide, tossed-off 'get a room' as I walked by Will [Matthew Morrison] and Emma [Jayma Mays] talking in the hallway. Then the rest is bitchy history."
— Naya Rivera, "Sorry Not Sorry: Dreams, Mistakes, and Growing Up" (2016)
By season two, the romantic story arc between Santana and fellow cheerleader and BFF Brittany Pierce (Heather Morris) solidified Santana, as well as Rivera herself, as an icon for young lesbians.
Santana and Brittany's Valentine's Day kiss. (Fox)
In a tribute following Rivera's death, Glee show runners Ryan Murphy, Brad Falchuk and Ian Brennan recounted how Rivera pushed herself create a realistic depiction of a young, Latina, femme lesbian:
"It was one of the first times an openly lesbian, high school relationship was seen on network television, and Naya understood what 'Brittana' meant to the many young women who were seeing themselves represented on television for the first time. Naya always made sure that Santana's love for Brittany was expressed with dignity, strength and with pure intentions."
Rivera had shared similar sentiments in her book, recalling how early depictions of Santana and Brittany's relationship served as queerbait, saying that she and Brittany were only "allowed quick pecks" on screen because "the writers had to assure the network that they were just dipping their toes in the gay pool."
But over time, the impact of the relationship became clear:
"Like many things that went on to become major plot lines on "Glee," Brittany and Santana's relationship started out as a joke [in season one] … At first, [in season two] I was just happy that she was getting a story line … but as that story progressed, we all started to see how much it was resonating with people. It was no longer a joke or a way to spice things up, but something we should take seriously."
Prior to Santana, lesbians on TV were either relegated to paper-thin stereotypes or hyper-sexualized caricatures seen through the eyes of shallow male leads. In the modern era, far too many queer TV characters meet an untimely demise, as Buzzfeed writer Hannah Marder explains:
"Queer couples (often ones viewers love—like Willow and Tara on "Buffy the Vampire Slayer"—or have just gotten started, like Clarke and Lexa on "The 100″) have their relationships ended by one or both parties dying suddenly and unnecessarily, in a way that often doesn't further the plot. It's almost as if queer characters are expendable or the show doesn't actually know how to write a queer couple."
Marder also addressed disdain for when queer female characters end a relationship, only to have their sexuality never be addressed again:
"I really loved both Adrianna and Gia on "90210" and Marissa and Alex on "The O.C.," and both were cut too short. That's fine—not every relationship needs to last forever. But having these relationships never mentioned again made it feel like Adrianna and Marissa were just going through a 'phase.'
The shows acted like they were finally going to give some great pansexual or bisexual representation, and then they completely backed away and pretended it never happened. Even though these were actual queer relationships, it still felt like a form of queer-baiting to me."
And, of course, a conversation about the history of lesbians on TV would be incomplete without discussion of Ellen DeGeneres and her historic coming out on her self-titled sitcom in 1997. After the infamous "Puppy Episode," the show spent its last season trying to discuss "gay themes," but it was constantly a battle, as Degeneres told Diane Sawyer in 1998:
"The subjects that we dealt with [on the show] were the subjects that any other show on television deals with. You know, all these things that you go through when you feel something for another person. So, you know, if that's gay because it's the same sex that I'm dealing with, then it's gay … The comfort level of the audience is never going to say 'C'mon give us some gay stuff; we're ready for it now.'"
Over a decade later, Santana Lopez and her love story with Britanny became one of the most talked-about story lines on TV. Given the history of LGBTQ+ representation and the popularity of social media, the pressure was there for Rivera's character to be different from those who came before.
Rivera wrote:
"As each new episode aired, I would get tweets from people thanking me and telling me how important the story line was to them. The writers would get similar praise—and also the occasional death threat from a lesbian warning them that they'd better not mess this up. I think we did a pretty good job."
Still, Santana's character was also successful because her sexuality was not her sole defining trait, writes Emily Browne:
"Over the course of three seasons, Naya's sensitive portrayal of a teenage girl coming to terms with a crush on her best friend had an immeasurable impact on a community of young women who saw themselves reflected in the narrative. They also saw a character who wasn't just boiled down to their sexuality, but a popular, confident, smart femme who was completely unapologetic about who she was."
Santana was an inspiration for many young, femme women to embrace their sexual orientation and come out—including me. I always knew I liked girls, but I never believed it would ever be a possibility to be in love with another woman.
When "Glee" first premiered, I was 13 and trying to mask my ever-growing feelings for other women by dating men. I tried to convince myself I wanted this—that this was what I was supposed to do.
When I was 18 and re-watching the second season of "Glee," one scene in particular stood out to me. In the scene, Santana, Brittany and substitute sex-ed teacher Holly Holiday (Gwyneth Paltrow) are discussing the possibility that Santana and/or Brittany could be a lesbian, to which Santana responds she's attracted sexually to both men and women. Holly's explanation of what sexual orientation actually boils down to changed my life forever:
"It's not about who you're attracted to, ultimately. It's about who you fall in love with"
— Holly Holiday, Glee S2E15 "Sexy"
In the years since Glee's departure from the airwaves, Santana Lopez is still making an impact in the lives of lesbian and bi women. As one of the few lesbian characters to ultimately have a happy ending (Brittany and Santana get married by the end of the series), her story was ground-breaking and impactful from start to finish.
Santana and Brittany's first kiss as a married couple. (Fox)
The story of "Brittana" (as fans lovingly called the couple) was a story of real love between two young women that was stronger than anything the world threw at them.
Santana made young femme lesbians feel seen. Santana made me feel seen—and helped me realize that finding real love with another woman was possible.
Thank you. Thank you. A giant lipstick lesbian thank you.
at this point we just vibin y'all
A post shared by Naya Rivera (@nayarivera) on Jul 5, 2020 at 2:18pm PDT
Rivera passed away on July 8 at the age of 33.
Naya Rivera: Rest in power.
Tagged: LGBTQ, Media Representation, Television, Women in Media
About Sarah Rosenberg
Sarah Rosenberg is an intern at Ms. Magazine. She graduated from Los Angeles Pierce College in June 2020. She holds an Associate of Arts for Transfer degree in Journalism and two Associates of Arts Degrees for Arts and Humanities, and Social and Behavioral Science, respectively. She has previously worked at Pierce College's Bull Magazine and Roundup Newspaper.
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Despite Growing Risks it's Still Janet Yellen's Market
03 Sep, 2014 by	John Browne
The current stock market is earning a deserved reputation as being coated in Teflon. Bad or disappointing news just doesn't appear to stick, and has done nothing to slow the market's upward trajectory. Bad news is good and good news is good news. But where does this all end? A minority of investors have begun to wonder whether negative geo-political risks, embodied in the steely-eyed stare of Vladimir Putin, are exerting more influence on the market than the sunny smiles of Janet Yellen. Just going by the market numbers, Yellen remains firmly in the driver's seat. Thus far this year, the S&P 500 is up more than 8% and there has been little evidence that investors fear a pull back.
But despite the surface enthusiasm, the hard-core data provides little to celebrate. At the end of last year, economic confidence for a strong 2014 was nearly universal. But so far this year the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has cut its forecast for US GDP growth from 2% to 1.7% It also cut its global forecast from 3.6% to 3.4%. Japan, which has been a key piston in the global economy, has seen its GDP collapse in the second quarter to an annualized -6.8%. Its outlook for the year doesn't look good either. Italy has gone back into recession, and the list goes on.
Last week, it was reported that the EU's three largest economies had fallen into negative growth. Germany, which was recently surpassed by China as the world's largest exporter, saw its quarterly GDP slip to a negative 0.2%. The quarterly GDP of France again saw no growth and that of Italy to negative 0.2%. Despite the quarterly increase of 3.2% in the GDP of Great Britain, the EU's fourth economy, EU growth has stalled.
The seriousness of a recession in the EU and its effect on an already unhealthy-looking world economy should not be underestimated. The U.S. and EU transacted some $650 billion of mutual trade in 2013 based on U.S. Census Bureau figures. According to the European Commission, "The EU and the U.S. economies account together for about half the entire world GDP and for nearly a third of world trade flows." The geo-political side of the equation is perhaps even worse.
In Iraq, an apparent tactical miracle was achieved in preventing the spread of the disgusting genocide of Christians. However, in politics such miracles are rare. The key question remains as to what key points the U.S. Administration may have yielded covertly in its nuclear negotiations with Iran. What bargaining points were given in return for Iran's backing of U.S. efforts to sack Nouri al-Maliki? In time, Americans and international financial markets may see the possibly frightening true costs of any such Obama deal that covertly may have increased Iran's chances of obtaining a nuclear weapon. With Russian help it may even become deliverable.
The Ukraine crisis is a child of Crimea. The Crimea was every bit as much a vital Russian interest as was Cuba to the U.S. in the 1960s. President Kennedy could not climb down even if it meant nuclear war. In the end the Russians had to back down. This time around it was Russia that could not climb down over the Crimea, even if it meant war. It was Obama that needed the "off-ramp." But the sanctions that Obama has used as smoke screen to cover this withdrawal have created a new series of problems.
The sanctions also have the potential to widen the gap between U.S. and European interests. The EU transacted some $326 billion of trade with Russia in 2013. According to the Bureau of Census, U.S. trade with Russia amounted to $38 billion, or only some 11.7 % of that of the EU. Clearly, the EU and especially Germany have far more to lose than the U.S. Consequently, Obama's sanctions exposed important latent political differences and potentially damaging military splits within NATO.
Putin now implies a return of the damaging Cold War and, with it, threatens the freedom of other East European nations recently freed from the Russian yolk. Likely, this will add significantly to NATO defense budgets at significant cost to members' economies. The sanctions have also re-energized Putin's objectives to partner with China to trade away from the dollar.
Furthermore, the advent of winter likely will favor Russia and its potential energy stranglehold on non-British and Norwegian Europeans.
Unlike Iraq, the Ukraine threatens major power conflict which could hurt badly the EU, the dollar, and the slowing global economy. Meanwhile, thin financial markets, fed by central banks with cheap easy money, continue to climb. Investors may ponder for how long.
But despite the increasing risks of war, recession and trade disruption, the U.S. stock markets continue to climb, especially on low summer trading volume. 2014 has also extended the extraordinarily low volatility that has been in place since the end of 2012. The only consistent answer to explain this result is that the markets only really care about one thing: Continued liquidity support from the Federal Reserve. On that front, there is very little for investors to fear. Yellen has studiously avoided any statement that would indicate policy reversal from the Fed. On the contrary, her statements continually soften the line that would cause the Fed to begin tightening policy.
But I believe that markets are getting far too complacent on how this Fed largesse and Russian currency strategy could negatively impact the U.S. dollar. That is where the real risks lie.
John Browne is a Senior Economic Consultant to Euro Pacific Capital. Opinions expressed are those of the writer, and may or may not reflect those held by Euro Pacific Capital, or its CEO, Peter Schiff.
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