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Some exoplanets are found by measuring how their star wobble. I was wondering how much the Earth wobbles in orbit due to the Moon's gravity, how far it actually would move.
The Earth does wobble on its orbit due to the Moon's gravity. Below is a representation of Earth's trajectory around the Sun where the wobble has been amplified thousandfold.
Both the Earth and the Moon orbit around the Earth-Moon center of mass, but the Earth has a much smaller orbit because it is much heavier. The size of the wobble can be computed from the Earth-Moon distance multiplied by the mass ratio, which gives around 5,000 km (slightly less than the Earth's radius, 0.003% of the Earth's distance to the Sun). The timescale for one wobble is the same as the orbital period of the Moon, 27 days. It corresponds to a relative velocity of 0.01 km/s, which is small compared to the orbital velocity of the Earth around the Sun, which is about 30 km/s.
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Laetitia Rodet is a research associate at Cornell since 2019, after graduating from Grenoble-Alpes University in France. She is working on the orbital dynamics of exoplanets, focusing on the few that we can directly observe. Her research aims at using the available data to figure out the past and future evolution of exoplanet systems.
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Video Chat Solution for Hospital Patients Launched by eVideon in Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids-based eVideon, a patient engagement and digital workflow solutions company, has released HELLO (Health, Engagement, Learning, Loved Ones), a video visitor solution. It was designed to offer a way for hospitalized patients to visit with loved ones virtually.
eVideon has launched its HELLO platform, which is designed to help hospital patients stay in touch with loved ones. // Image courtesy of eVideon
The solution requires no downloads, accounts, or logins for patients or visitors and meets privacy and HIPPA requirements. Hospitals, which have had to restrict hospital visits due to the COVID-19 pandemic, can customize the platform with their own colors, logos, and images. It can be deployed in 24 hours.
HELLO also will enable virtual consultations with specialists using multi-way video call capabilities, reducing health providers' need for personal protective equipment and allowing family members to keep up to date on patients' conditions and treatments.
"We are pleased to bring to market this virtual visit solution as part of our COVID-19 rapid response effort to provide our customers with meaningful support during this uncertain and unprecedented time," says Jeff Fallon, CEO of eVideon. "This cutting-edge patient engagement technology reduces the risk of potential contamination through physical interaction and lets patients connect with loved ones virtually."
The interface can run on any device or operating system, whether on hospital or patients' personal devices, via QR code scans, or by visiting a website. HELLO is completing testing at Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital and now is available to hospitals nationwide through an early adopter program.
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> Genre: Fiction > Books about murders that aren't about murders at all
Books about murders that aren't about murders at all
In the Woods by Tana French
Faithful Place by Tana French
The Secret Place by Tana French
December 9, 2019 by alwaysanswerb 2 Comments
I feel a little bad this review, because these are excellent novels that deserve more than the fly-by treatment I'm about to give them. But I read these months ago, and I'm barely managing to accomplish a half Cannonball this year because writing reviews just isn't happening for me lately.
I have had the Dublin Murder Squad books on my TBR for some time, prompted by the positive reviews of many Cannonballers. Amusingly (to myself), putting the series out of mind for several years led to me completely forgetting what they actually were by the time I got them from the library, and I started reading them with the notion that they were supernatural mysteries. Point of information: they are not.
But — you'd be forgiven for getting the creepy crawlies anywyay, because Tana French's writing creates this uncanny feeling that the characters are inside you, haunting you. They're all a little bit (or in some cases, a lot) damaged in familiar ways. The mystery central to each book is tailor-made to gnaw at that protagonist's particular flaws and insecurities, and the ways that they imperfectly deal with these personal challenges are so achingly human. Practically speaking, these are mysteries where detectives investigate murders, but the real meat of the books are the character profiles of the detectives themselves. I read the first five in the series, and will read the sixth, but I needed a break, because they're great, but they're heavy.
In the Woods is fucked up emotionally. Detective Rob Ryan is a slow-motion car crash, and even though he starts his retrospective narration with the warning that this is the story of how things went very badly, it still doesn't prepare you for the destructiveness of his complete implosion. I, quite frankly, lack the energy and ability to convey the impact of this book. There is so much behind the inevitable tailspin, such backstory and trauma, and an incredible complexity of the psyche that French portrays so deftly. I'm having actual trouble composing simple thoughts to discuss it, because an interpretive summary of something this densely layered should be done thoughtfully or not at all. I want to fall back on a simple emotion and an easy judgement when it comes to Rob, because it means putting myself through quite a bit less emotional stress, but there isn't anything simple or easy about why Rob is the way he is. This story requires you to confront biases about how we classify and label human behavior, and it demands that you consider the context behind actions you'd otherwise put down to deceptively simple motives.
The shockwaves of Rob's self-destruction impart a new trauma onto his partner, Cassie Maddox. In The Likeness, she's working alone on a new case that takes her undercover and takes over her life. You don't need to read In The Woods to read The Likeness; it's a stand-alone, but it's a fact nonetheless that there is a direct, indelible line between what she experienced in the first book and her actions in this one. In her underground role, Cassie experiences true belonging in a seemingly indestructible group of friends who are suspects in a murder. After the loss of her former best friend in Rob, the case is both seductive and cruel. The line between Cassie and the identity she's assuming is razor-thin, and being convincing in her role requires that she genuinely befriends and cares about the people she's investigating. As with Into the Woods, there's so much more going on than a person becoming too close to their case. Cassie is in actual danger, not just from possible proximity to a murderer, but because the allure of the life her identity is a threat to her sense of self.
All of the books that come next feature characters that were introduced in the previous books, but none in my opinion are so closely linked by consequence as the first two. Faithful Place features Frank Mackie, the lead detective that oversaw Cassie's role in The Likeness. He returns home after new evidence is found from an old disappearance, and while he's looking into that, a new, related death occurs. Both cases affect Frank intimately: the person who went missing all those years ago was his girlfriend when they were both teenagers, and they had meant to run away together before she disappeared. The new death is also close to him, and while officially, he's not working, his involvement is inevitable: he can't not do his own investigating. It's instinctual, and it's the mystery that defines his own life. In the way of the books that came before, Faithful Place is partly about the cases, but it's so much more about cracking open Frank's relationships with his family and studying the damage. To Frank, they're better left in the past with the ghost of his girlfriend, and until he gets closure from that disappearance he's unwilling and unable to have them in his life. Working on the case is the pathway toward healing those broken bonds.
Broken Harbor comes across like the one that's most focused on the straightforward mystery, but even that is making a statement about its main character. Detective Kennedy is a by-the-book guy who is single-mindedly focused on his work and whose driving motivation is giving off the appearance of a competent, respected detective. He doesn't have a high solve rate for no reason: he's observant and smart, and he will work as hard and as long as he has to in order to get the solve. But he's also inflexible, and his rigidity led to him botching the murder case he was working in Faithful Place. The assignment in Broken Harbor is a chance for redemption, if only he can learn from his mistakes… which isn't always an easy thing for anyone to do, and it's especially not easy when you haven't even gotten so far as to acknowledging your mistake in the first place. Kennedy needs to get the new case right, not just for the obvious reasons like the general good of solving a shocking murder and for the improvement to his reputation, but also because the investigation forces him to interrogate his own convictions and evaluate himself and his moral code with brutal honesty.
Secret Place adopts a new format, jumping around between points of view along a non-linear timeline. A boy was murdered at the brother institution of St Kilda's, the school Frank Mackey's daughter Holly attends. The first investigation had gone cold, but was re-opened when a note was posted on an anonymous board at St Kilda's called "the Secret Place," with a claim that the poster knew who killed the boy. The present-day investigation is basically a bottle episode, while the book also goes back in time, following Holly and her group of best friends and slowly revealing everything that happened in the months leading up to the murder. It's clear to the detectives that Holly and her friends know more than they are letting on, but thanks in no small part to Holly's familiarity with law enforcement via her father, they know how to evade and lie with enough plausible credibility to avoid focused suspicion. This book tugs at the nostalgia of teenage friendships, especially those among girls, with that all-consuming promise of lifetime commitment to each other and the extreme loyalty that goes beyond the lines of adult good sense. It also nails the angst of being misunderstood, and the duality of confidence and insecurity of that age.
All of the books are heartbreaking, and each in their own way. You grieve for the people who damage themselves and others. The murders themselves are just the beginning — they're the most obvious source of tragedy, but even the detectives, who are supposed to be professionally unaffected by such things, bring so much of themselves to the work that the cases impact them no less. The humanity spilling out of these books is overwhelming. All of the characters are only trying to do good, the way they understand good to be, but with none of us being completely objective about the things that matter to us, they make mistakes that put themselves in their own way and damage their perspectives and future decision-making. It's all so painfully relatable.
Filed Under: Fiction, Mystery Tagged With: dublin murder squad, female author, Tana French
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Yes, another convert! I'm excited for you to read Trespasser and Witch Elm. I think she also has another one coming in Fall 2020, but no idea if it's another standalone like Witch Elm was, or if she'll go back to Dublin Murder.
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I really like these books too, but never quite as much as I think. Still, they're very good reads.


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So I've been toying with the idea of starting a DDO guild. Not so much for the new guild updates coming in with next update but its been there since I saw guild charters go on sale. With the guild update i'm hoping they'll do a once a year sale point so I can buy into it on the cheaper. Most likely it wouldn't be a very large guild, maybe a more of a gateway guild than anything. As such I have two names that I bounced around and decided that I like. Now what i'm looking for is what other people might like, as I would like my silly little guild to be more than just me and my Alts.
[M&M] can't go wrong* with an abbreviation like that. This would be your generic support guild. Ideally it would be full of unique character builds, things that go outside the box and might not be as effective as the exploiter builds. Thus its the perfect name for the group, they don't fit in regular parties and they're not content with the typical character designs. This guilds main purpose would be to give players with unique yet fun for them better access to other players who understand that you don't have to be a copy of something in the Character Builds section to have fun in DDO.
*Ideally the guild wouldn't be seen as a threat to Mars Incorporated.
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Rate of spontaneous hemorrhage in histologically proven cases of pilocytic astrocytoma
J. Bradley White, David G. Piepgras, Bernd W. Scheithauer, Joseph E. Parisi
Object. Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage is an uncommon but recognized initial presenting sign of both primary and metastatic brain tumors. The rate of tumor-related intracranial hemorrhage is variably reported from < 1 to 14.6%. Hemorrhage in primary gliomas occurs in 3.7-7.2% of gliomas, mainly in glioblastoma muliforme and oligodendroglioma with low-grade astrocytomas accounting for < 1%. Hemorrhage associated with pilocytic astrocytomas (PAs) is only sporadically reported. The authors report on a series of patients in whom PAs presenting as hemorrhages prompted them to examine the incidence of bleeding in these tumors. Methods. Cases involving a confirmed tissue diagnosis of PA from 1994-2005 were reviewed retrospectively. The authors included only patients with evidence of hemorrhage on computed tomography and/or magnetic resonance imaging seen prior to biopsy or resection and in the absence of trauma or other vascular pathological entities. Results. In 138 patients with histologically proven PAs, the mean age at diagnosis was 23 years. In 11 patients (8%; 5 male and 6 female) there was evidence of hemorrhage at presentation. There were no locations more susceptible to hemorrhage than any other, although no bleeding occurred within the cerebellum. All but 1 patient was treated with a gross-total resection. Conclusions. Hemorrhage in association with PAs likely results from the frequently observed abnormal vasculature in these tumors, occurs with a greater frequency than previously thought, and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.
https://doi.org/10.3171/JNS/2008/108/2/0223
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White, J. B., Piepgras, D. G., Scheithauer, B. W., & Parisi, J. E. (2008). Rate of spontaneous hemorrhage in histologically proven cases of pilocytic astrocytoma. Journal of neurosurgery, 108(2), 223-226. https://doi.org/10.3171/JNS/2008/108/2/0223
Rate of spontaneous hemorrhage in histologically proven cases of pilocytic astrocytoma. / White, J. Bradley; Piepgras, David G.; Scheithauer, Bernd W.; Parisi, Joseph E.
In: Journal of neurosurgery, Vol. 108, No. 2, 02.2008, p. 223-226.
White, JB, Piepgras, DG, Scheithauer, BW & Parisi, JE 2008, 'Rate of spontaneous hemorrhage in histologically proven cases of pilocytic astrocytoma', Journal of neurosurgery, vol. 108, no. 2, pp. 223-226. https://doi.org/10.3171/JNS/2008/108/2/0223
White JB, Piepgras DG, Scheithauer BW, Parisi JE. Rate of spontaneous hemorrhage in histologically proven cases of pilocytic astrocytoma. Journal of neurosurgery. 2008 Feb;108(2):223-226. https://doi.org/10.3171/JNS/2008/108/2/0223
White, J. Bradley ; Piepgras, David G. ; Scheithauer, Bernd W. ; Parisi, Joseph E. / Rate of spontaneous hemorrhage in histologically proven cases of pilocytic astrocytoma. In: Journal of neurosurgery. 2008 ; Vol. 108, No. 2. pp. 223-226.
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abstract = "Object. Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage is an uncommon but recognized initial presenting sign of both primary and metastatic brain tumors. The rate of tumor-related intracranial hemorrhage is variably reported from < 1 to 14.6%. Hemorrhage in primary gliomas occurs in 3.7-7.2% of gliomas, mainly in glioblastoma muliforme and oligodendroglioma with low-grade astrocytomas accounting for < 1%. Hemorrhage associated with pilocytic astrocytomas (PAs) is only sporadically reported. The authors report on a series of patients in whom PAs presenting as hemorrhages prompted them to examine the incidence of bleeding in these tumors. Methods. Cases involving a confirmed tissue diagnosis of PA from 1994-2005 were reviewed retrospectively. The authors included only patients with evidence of hemorrhage on computed tomography and/or magnetic resonance imaging seen prior to biopsy or resection and in the absence of trauma or other vascular pathological entities. Results. In 138 patients with histologically proven PAs, the mean age at diagnosis was 23 years. In 11 patients (8%; 5 male and 6 female) there was evidence of hemorrhage at presentation. There were no locations more susceptible to hemorrhage than any other, although no bleeding occurred within the cerebellum. All but 1 patient was treated with a gross-total resection. Conclusions. Hemorrhage in association with PAs likely results from the frequently observed abnormal vasculature in these tumors, occurs with a greater frequency than previously thought, and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.",
keywords = "Hemorrhage, Pilocytic astrocytoma",
author = "White, {J. Bradley} and Piepgras, {David G.} and Scheithauer, {Bernd W.} and Parisi, {Joseph E.}",
doi = "10.3171/JNS/2008/108/2/0223",
journal = "Journal of Neurosurgery",
publisher = "American Association of Neurological Surgeons",
T1 - Rate of spontaneous hemorrhage in histologically proven cases of pilocytic astrocytoma
AU - White, J. Bradley
AU - Piepgras, David G.
AU - Scheithauer, Bernd W.
AU - Parisi, Joseph E.
N2 - Object. Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage is an uncommon but recognized initial presenting sign of both primary and metastatic brain tumors. The rate of tumor-related intracranial hemorrhage is variably reported from < 1 to 14.6%. Hemorrhage in primary gliomas occurs in 3.7-7.2% of gliomas, mainly in glioblastoma muliforme and oligodendroglioma with low-grade astrocytomas accounting for < 1%. Hemorrhage associated with pilocytic astrocytomas (PAs) is only sporadically reported. The authors report on a series of patients in whom PAs presenting as hemorrhages prompted them to examine the incidence of bleeding in these tumors. Methods. Cases involving a confirmed tissue diagnosis of PA from 1994-2005 were reviewed retrospectively. The authors included only patients with evidence of hemorrhage on computed tomography and/or magnetic resonance imaging seen prior to biopsy or resection and in the absence of trauma or other vascular pathological entities. Results. In 138 patients with histologically proven PAs, the mean age at diagnosis was 23 years. In 11 patients (8%; 5 male and 6 female) there was evidence of hemorrhage at presentation. There were no locations more susceptible to hemorrhage than any other, although no bleeding occurred within the cerebellum. All but 1 patient was treated with a gross-total resection. Conclusions. Hemorrhage in association with PAs likely results from the frequently observed abnormal vasculature in these tumors, occurs with a greater frequency than previously thought, and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.
AB - Object. Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage is an uncommon but recognized initial presenting sign of both primary and metastatic brain tumors. The rate of tumor-related intracranial hemorrhage is variably reported from < 1 to 14.6%. Hemorrhage in primary gliomas occurs in 3.7-7.2% of gliomas, mainly in glioblastoma muliforme and oligodendroglioma with low-grade astrocytomas accounting for < 1%. Hemorrhage associated with pilocytic astrocytomas (PAs) is only sporadically reported. The authors report on a series of patients in whom PAs presenting as hemorrhages prompted them to examine the incidence of bleeding in these tumors. Methods. Cases involving a confirmed tissue diagnosis of PA from 1994-2005 were reviewed retrospectively. The authors included only patients with evidence of hemorrhage on computed tomography and/or magnetic resonance imaging seen prior to biopsy or resection and in the absence of trauma or other vascular pathological entities. Results. In 138 patients with histologically proven PAs, the mean age at diagnosis was 23 years. In 11 patients (8%; 5 male and 6 female) there was evidence of hemorrhage at presentation. There were no locations more susceptible to hemorrhage than any other, although no bleeding occurred within the cerebellum. All but 1 patient was treated with a gross-total resection. Conclusions. Hemorrhage in association with PAs likely results from the frequently observed abnormal vasculature in these tumors, occurs with a greater frequency than previously thought, and should be considered in the differential diagnosis of spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage.
KW - Hemorrhage
KW - Pilocytic astrocytoma
U2 - 10.3171/JNS/2008/108/2/0223
DO - 10.3171/JNS/2008/108/2/0223
JO - Journal of Neurosurgery
JF - Journal of Neurosurgery


Have you ever thought about taking a yoga teacher training (YTT)?
Some people dream about taking an in-depth 200 hour yoga teacher training for a decade before they are ready and able to invest the time and money. Others experience the incredible benefits of yoga and eventually reach a place in their practice where they feel ready to #GoDeep and start teaching.
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After several years, without decades of yoga experience or the desire to even teach yoga, I followed in her footsteps and signed up for a month-long YTT in the jungle of Costa Rica. The opportunity to explore, discover and experience the depths of yoga on and off the mat during that first YTT changed my life in all of the ways I hoped it would… and more! Unexpectedly, I fell in love with teaching. I started teaching yoga the week I returned home and haven't stopped.
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The intensive nature of a YTT will help you to discover the subtle energies of your being and understand the wisdom of your physical body. You will learn how to show up to your mat with all of that you carry and start listening to the cues coming from your body and heart. With the gentle and experienced guidance of your instructors, you will learn how to design your practice by listening to your body and knowing your Self deeply. After all, yoga is about revealing and knowing your Self (yes, capital S!).
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By taking a YTT, you are sowing the seeds of transformation. You become a student of yoga for life; and your capacity to learn and grow only deepens when you start teaching. By showing up to your mat and carrying your yoga into your world, you will create whatever personal (and possibly professional) transformation you most need. The beauty is that this cycle of transformation continues for the rest of your life. Yoga becomes a way of living that encourages and allows you to blossom, again and again.
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The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights
Jami K. Taylor, Daniel C. Lewis, and Donald P. Haider-Markel
How a small, seemingly marginalized group becomes a political force
While medical identification and treatment of gender dysphoria have existed for decades, the development of transgender as a "collective political identity" is a recent construct. Over the past twenty-five years, the transgender movement has gained statutory nondiscrimination protections at the state and local levels, hate crimes protections in a number of states, inclusion in a federal law against hate crimes, legal victories in the courts, and increasingly favorable policies in bureaucracies at all levels. It has achieved these victories despite the relatively small number of trans people and despite the widespread discrimination, poverty, and violence experienced by many in the transgender community. This is a remarkable achievement in a political system where public policy often favors those with important resources that the transgender community lacks: access, money, and voters. The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights explains the growth of the transgender rights movement despite its marginalized status within the current political opportunity structure.
"The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights not only is the first comprehensive treatment of the success of the trans rights movement, but also serves as a blue print for any other 'essentially contested rights' movement. If I may make a bold prediction, this will become the model by which other rights treatment books are structured and judged."
—Charles Anthony Smith, University of California, Irvine
"The authors have done an excellent job in tackling a complicated and compelling set of issues with humanity, eloquence, and rigor. This book will be of interest to faculty, to students, and to members of the larger LGBTQ community, including activists. Highly recommended!"
—Craig Rimmerman, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
"How did a minority group within a minority group become recognized in a majoritarian political system? The Remarkable Rise of Transgender Rights details the complex path of this stunning development in the LGBT movement and U.S. politics over the past thirty years. This is an important book that should be read widely."
—Susan Burgess, Ohio University
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Jami K. Taylor is Professor of Political Science and Public Administration at the University of Toledo.
Daniel C. Lewis is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science & International Relations, and Faculty Fellow for the Community Policy Institute at Siena College.
Donald P. Haider-Markel is Professor and Chair of the Political Science Department at the University of Kansas.
"This is another book book backed up by an impressive array of quantitative and qualitative data, including several national surveys; the power of the various chapters is also supplemented by the authors' decision to coauthor several of them with noted experts in LGBT politics subfields, including Andrew Flores, Patrick Miller, and Barry Tadlock on public opinion; Jason Pierceson on judicial politics; Mitchell Sellers on executive branch politics; and Ryan Combs on health care politics...[which] allows for individual chapters to be strongly in conversation with their relevant literatures and enhances the overall quality of the book."
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"Careful organization lends academic heft and value to the volume ... This book is strongly recommended for academic and law libraries, attorneys with a civil rights practice, government and nonprofit leaders invested in greater equality, and anyone wishing to learn more about gender identity and the law."
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An inquest is to be opened next week into the death of a local woman who died after being involved in a van crash.
The woman who died after the collision at Metheringham Fen has been named as Tracey Fellows, 47, of Dunston Fen, was a passenger in a small blue Transit van involved in a single vehicle collision on Fen Lane near Fen Head Farm just before 11pm on Tuesday, September 4.
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Dell EMC is expanding their Ready Solutions lineup with new offerings designed to help organizations with AI tasks. The two new products they are offering are named Deep Learning with NVIDIA, and Machine Learning with Hadoop. The new solutions are aimed at delivering faster, deeper insight while helping companies realize their potential with AI.
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Ștefan Stoenescu (n. 30 ianuarie 1936, București) este un filolog, eseist și traducător (din și în limba engleză) american, originar din România.

Absolvent al Facultății de filologie română și engleză (catedra de limba și literatură engleză), Universitatea București (1962) (și ulterior al cursului de masterat în literatură comparată, Universitatea Cornell, SUA, 1990), a fost cadru universitar la Universitatea din București, Facultatea de Limbi Străine (1964-1987), până în septembrie 1987, când a cererut azil politic  în SUA.

Apartenențe
Membru titular al Uniunii Scriitorilor din România (1978);
Membru titular al Academiei Americano-Române de Stiințe și Arte (ARA) (1998)
Membru în comitetul editorial al revistei "Origini/Romanian Roots" (1997), Norcross, Georgia, SUA
Membru al comitetului editorial al anuarului "Caiete Internaționale de Poezie" (2000), Norcross Georgia, SUA

Bibliografie selectivă
 Proză eseistică victoriană. Antologie, (coeditor, cu Ana Cartianu),  Bucureșt, 1969
 Other Voices, Other Lines de Mircea Ivănescu, București, Editura Eminescu, 1983.
 Romanian Poetry in English Translation. An Annotated Bibliography Census ( 1740-1996), (coeditor), (1997), Centrul pentru Studii Românești, Iași
 Timpul – Rană Sângerândă. Poeți români în Lumea Nouă (coeditor), Criterion Publishing, 2006

Legături externe
 Interviu cu Ștefan Stoenescu

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Nașteri în 1936
Nașteri pe 30 ianuarie
Editori români
Traducători români
Eseiști români
Profesori universitari români
Angliști români
Români expatriați în Statele Unite ale Americii
Profesori români în viață

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A large mural of images and a display case illustrate NASA's exploration of space. Cronkite was fascinated by space and space travel, and was the "go to" anchor for CBS's coverage of the space program.
Kiosk: Walter Cronkite's Life
The kiosk features a touch screen television that plays autobiographical video of Cronkite talking about his childhood, family, interests and career.
The memorial houses caricatures drawn by well known artist Al Hirschfeld. These caricatures were commissioned by CBS for advertising in the 1960s.
Betsy Maxwell Cronkite Tribute
The photographic display tells the story of Mary Elizabeth "Betsy" Cronkite, Walter's wife of nearly 65 years, and mother of his three children, Nancy, Kate and Chip.
The display cases house items owned by and related to Walter Cronkite, including eight of his Emmys and his CBS office desk. The items currently on display reflect aspects of his life as a journalist [...]
WWII Waco Combat Glider
The glider that hangs near the front entrance of Spratt Hall Atrium, approximately 14 feet from wingtip to wingtip and 10 feet from nose to tail, is a replica of a glider that Cronkite used [...]
The large timeline chronicles Cronkite's life from his birth November 4, 1916, to his death July 17, 2009. The timeline not only includes photos and information from his life as a news reporter and anchor, [...]
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Take a 360° virtual tour of the CBS newsroom replica. Launch tour The newsroom is a replica of the CBS newsroom from which Cronkite broadcast the CBS Evening News in the late 1960s and [...]
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The memorial includes a display that lists Missouri's colleges and universities. It was formerly housed in the state capitol, and Cronkite lent his voice detailing the importance of Missouri higher education.
Bronze Bust on a Granite Pedestal
The bust of Cronkite is slightly larger than life-size and is phenomenally accurate. The artist, Eric Fuson '88 worked with the Cronkite family in its creation.
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In front of the St. Joseph Chamber of Commerce, Cronkite expressed his views about what he perceived as an attack on freedom of speech in 1969.
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A kiosk with touch-panel controls and a video display system is dedicated to the news reports depicted in the Historical Photograph Display. The videos detail the events that Cronkite covered as anchor of the CBS [...]
Walter Cronkite Memorial TV Display
The photographic display, approximately 9 feet wide by 21 feet tall, is the centerpiece of the Walter Cronkite Memorial. Cronkite served as anchor of the CBS Evening News from 1962-1981, and the display contains 39 [...]
Dr. Vartabedian's Vision
The Walter Cronkite Memorial was the vision of Dr. Robert Vartabedian, President of Missouri Western State University, to create a fitting memorial to St. Joseph's beloved native son and one of the most important and trusted voices in our country's history. Dr. Vartabedian's vision was captured by Missouri Western art faculty members Eric Fuson and David Harris, who designed the unique artistic display illustrating Cronkite's distinguished career with CBS television.
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Love and Rockets: The Anarchist's Cookbook Revisited
by Benjamin N. Schachtman
Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing. -Joseph Heller
He moved from Brooklyn to the suburbs in West Orange, New Jersey. He assembled model rockets and launched them across the soccer fields. He graduated from hobby-kits to building his own, putting cockpits for mice into the nosecones, equipping them with heart-monitors and altimeters and – because he was bright, and a little nebbish, but big-hearted – multiple parachutes.
Faded, sepia Polaroids: watching Kennedy inaugurate the Apollo program, reading Heinlein's Have Space Suit – Will Travel, at a wooden bench with a soldering iron, lugging the launch pad out into the grass, standing with his hand against his brow, staring up into the cloudless blue sky.
What had he seen? Rockets landing on Mars? Or raining down on Khe Sahn? Woodstock? Or Altamont? It's hard to say. Fathers are notoriously opaque. But we did build model rockets together – sans lab mice, as suburban PETA moms would hardly have stood for it – and launched them in a park in South Jersey. When our mail order launch system failed we went to our neighboring town, to Edmund Scientific – an electronic warehouse and DIY mecca – and got the parts and forklift scales to start our own.
What my father had dreamed, what dreams he had buried, of these I cannot speak. But I had watched Reagan commission the space shuttle; I had read the same orange-jacketed copy of Heinlein. I had stood by my father's side and stared up at the sky, still cloudless, still blue.
My father's child, I loved tinkering. I got my Ham Radio license – N2VOD – and spent many nights in my basement, talking to strangers. There was a lot of chatter about something called 'packet radio', an underground version of the world-wide-web that utilized amateur radio instead of phone lines. I rode my bike to Edmund Scientific and got the parts to build an aerial and started saving for the equipment to hook up the family's old IBM PS2 to my radio. A neighbor, an old Morse-code junkie, heard what I was up to and gave me a milk-crate full of vacuum tubes and resistor coils. It was that kind of time, that kind of town.
Then the usual introductions: handshakes with sex, drugs and rock'n'roll, the beginning of a beautiful friendship for which I had high hopes. But spring came, and a young man's mind turned to death. On April 19th, Timothy McVeigh used a fertilizer bomb to destroy the Oklahoma City Federal Building. Two days later, a woman named Leslie Nelson (formerly Glen Nelson, until his '92 sex-change) machine-gunned two of our local cops – including my former elementary school D.A.R.E. officer – and a county investigator after they tried to serve her a warrant. Before the day was over ATF tanks rolled through the streets of our quiet suburban town. Later that week, a good friend of mine was busted by the FBI for hosting ripped copies of Microsoft Windows on his website, which up until that month had been a private Bulletin Board. In a panic, he smuggled his computer hard-drive to me before the FBI raided his house. On the drive: low-quality porn (lots), shareware (Spear of Destiny, Doom) and the Anarchist's Cookbook. The Cookbook, originally a print manuscript published by William Powell to protest the Vietnam war, had spread across the early network of Bulletin Board Services (BBSs), collecting other articles and recipes – the majority by the pseudonymed Jolly Roger and Exodus. By the nineties it had become a strange, somewhat bi-polar, multi-media, multi-author text. [For a fuller history of Cookbook, check out this VICE article.]
About half of the Cookbook was dedicating to 'phreaking', the art of unauthorized manipulation (i.e. hacking) of large telephone networks using a combination of tones at certain frequencies. Though the internet had gone live a year prior, there were still a lot of dial-up BBSs; access to phone networks, thus, meant access to the ever-increasing number of things that were controlled by computer: from pizza-delivery to NORAD. The Cookbook contained enticing, but unsubstantiated, stories of hacking into power-grids and 'the President's Bomb Shelter'. It also contained blue-prints for increasingly sophisticated devices for getting around the roadblocks that Ma Bell and her associates had set up for Phreaks. All of the parts necessary to build these 'Blue Boxes' were available – the Cookbook pointed out – next door to me, in Barrington, New Jersey.
I was fascinated and delighted with the Cookbook until I got to the second half (largely authored by 'Exodus'), comprised of recipes and designs for high-explosives, lethal-booby traps, nail-bombs, pipe-bombs, fertilizer bombs, even a fuel-air bomb (remember Outbreak?). All you needed was a steady hand, house-hold chemicals, and an electronic goods store. One of Cookbook's contributors noted that Edmund Scientific was his hands down favorite.
I read the Cookbook twice. The only thing I saved was a recipe for LSD that turned out to be highly – although, thankfully, not dangerously – inaccurate. I deleted the text file and then scrubbed the drive and threw it out. That night I dreamt in pixilated hermaphroditic erotics. Then the dreams turned to nightmares. I dreamt of firing a rocket into my high-school. In the rubble I saw broken bodies, shattered bones. A severed head with my own face. Even my Id thought it was a bit much.
I wondered then, and I wonder now, if McVeigh and Nelson had dreams like mine when they read their copies of the Cookbook.
A heavy trip: the Fall of 2001 made the Spring of '95 seem like a student prank. The death of irony (short lived, thankfully). The death of bomb jokes in airports (not short lived, alas). During the Clinton years of internet hyper-investment the primary online concerns were child pornography and fraud. With the world aptly terrorized, the Anarchist's Cookbook made it back into the limelight – though the Al Qaeda crew hadn't read a single page. (It had also popped up after Columbine, although those malcontent sociopaths had failed to successfully build a bomb but did successfully use their parents' legally purchased shotguns and assault weapons.) Details hardly matter that year, the Patriot Act was already being whipped up to suppress and disenfranchise, although little was being done to curtail gun sales. But this is not a story about the extravagant defense of the 2nd Amendment at the expense of the 1st Amendment.
It is, in a way, the story of Edmund Scientific, in fact, the end of that story. In 2001, Edmund closed its doors. It had nothing to do with the Patriot Act or Al Qaeda. Homeland Security had no fears of sleeper agents or home-grown suicide bombers gearing up in Barrington, New Jersey. No more aisles of resistors and capacitors, no more Russian Sovtek tubes, no more Electro-Harmonix circuitry. No more goofy hall of mirrors. No more rockets.
And not because the government had anything to fear. Despite what the paranoid brain-stems in Arizona and Montana seem to think, even a fuel-air bomb couldn't dislodge the powers that be from their entrenchments. In fact, if you want to look at things dystopically (or despotically), history is pretty clear: fascists love bombings, it justifies their worst excesses (if they can't elicit a bombing, they'll stage one). Survivalists and Militiamen keep copies of The Anarchist Cookbook because they are too myopic to understand this, or because they are psychotic, or because the Cookbook is a fetish against their impotence. They represent the sad, dark side of anarchism; they've murdered children, assassinated heads of state and started wars. Still, in the end, they're doomed to the backwoods, the ass-end of history. They couldn't even cause the closure of a warehouse in the 'burbs.
What closed Edmund was a greater – perhaps the greatest – historical force: apathy. Ham Radio was never going to replace the internet: the fetishistic devotion to Morse code keep most at arm's length, DSL and cable were exponentially faster than radio, especially over the shit-end of the spectrum that Congress had set aside for amateurs before selling the rest off to a handful of corporations. The technology got away from the average tinkerer – even an industrious nerd is no match for the complexity of a fiber-optic router – but it was easier. When Ma Bell and her anti-trust children switched from tone-based to digital systems, the Phreaks fell behind. The charm of the Phreaks is the Jules Verne quality of their obsolescence and the disproportion of their curiosity to the potential gain. Most Phreaks broke into phone-systems to see if they could, to see if their home-made equipment would work. The politics – the anarchy, the anti-corporatism, the saber-rattling – all came after the fact, if they came at all. This was the other face of anarchy – subversion for subversion's sake, experimentation as an end in itself – the face of the curious, the weirdos, the DIYers, the nerds. The rocket builders.
What can we say of the Phreaks, those sad anachronisms? The fields are empty; the rocket builders are gone. They play video games now.
A decade after Edmund Scientific closed, I ran across the Anarchist's Cookbook again, researching the differences between Palahniuk's Fight Club and Fincher's adaptation (Palahniuk gets dynamite right from the Cookbook, Fincher lost his nerve and left out key information – weight ratios – from the formula). Again I was struck by the horror of what a few 'motivated individuals' could do, even after years of legislation curtailing access to explosives and their component ingredients. And, again, I was touched by the childish glee with which the Phreaks approached their craft, their excitement in boasting, but also in sharing, and most of all in doing. And I was a little more honest about that duality: I had both strains of anarchy running in my blood.
Of course, it's easy to valorize Phreakers, perhaps easier still to lionize all weirdos. The kids making noise-rock, unintelligible student films, graphic novels, skate videos and ersatz scribbling and notebooks of all sorts – it's all masturbatory and self-involved and pretentious. Self-amusement. Self-love. Acknowledged. But self-love is better than hate, better still than apathy and boredom. At the least, it's no worse than the monoculture run by the handful of corporations that own television and radio and that – give it time – will own the internet before most of my generation is in the grave. No one's even fighting it very strenuously, and – after all – corporations have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.
But let's stop that rant before it starts; it's fashionable to be dystopian about the internet, or about the world, but – ye fucking gods – it's wearisome to keep it up. So it's worth remembering that the moral of Heller's book cuts both ways. While it lasts, we can use the internet for whatever we can get away with. You can even order a rocket-kit from the company that bought Edmund Scientific, although the models are small, sanitized miniatures. And, when the web is gone or co-opted, we'll have to find something else. That's okay: that's the moral of the story, the resilient yin to the yang of anarchy's dark, inbred violence. Anarchy never wins – in fact, it loses as soon as it imagines it can – but it never stops. It's the counterforce. It's something to do on a Saturday night besides huffing glue and jacking off. It's not heroic but it's better than nothing.
I dream I see my father, standing in a field. He's twelve years old. He holds his hand against the sun. The rocket's trail fades into the summer haze. He waits and waits, but it never comes down. In his mind, it travels up and out of the atmosphere. It crosses the sub-zero void and lands on Mars. The young offspring of some ancient, alien race finds the rocket. He stares up at the Martian sky and smiles.
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This Shop Uses an Old-World "Three Olives" Machine to Do Period Restorations
To properly restore classic cars, you need classic machinery.
By Ken Gross
LUCY HEWITT
Some of the best restorers are a bit off the beaten track. Take David Cooper's shop, Cooper Technica, in Bristol, Wisconsin, about 65 miles northwest of Chicago. Cooper focuses on pre-World War II French and Italian custom coachwork, and is probably the only American restorer with a second restoration shop in France.
This story originally appeared in the February 2020 issue of Road & Track.
Cooper Technica has three distinct specialties: custom metal shaping, vintage paint work, and Cotal electromagnetic and Wilson pre-selector gearboxes. The shop has been in business for 30 years, and Cooper comes from a line of machine builders—his family's business was a machine shop that focused on custom work. When Cooper started racing vintage cars, he bought a Porsche 356 that required restoration work; that work became his personal project. "When it needed parts that were no longer available," he says modestly, "I started making them myself." After that, he began crafting parts for other people.
"One of my projects was a nickel-plated brass part that had been missing from a Bugatti Type 35B," Cooper says, explaining that he found in old Bugatti literature a record of the original metallurgy. He then located the correct brass stock—a material not commonly used today—machined the part to match, and then had it nickel-plated. Not long afterward, a friend asked him to mechanically restore a BMW 328. Two other jobs quickly followed, and Cooper had to rapidly set up a shop and acquire tools. Eventually, he started doing the bodywork "because I couldn't find anyone who would do the work to my standards."
Shortly after that, Cooper transitioned to using a little-known, old-world French panel-forming device called a "three olives" machine. The 1930s-era metal-shaping machine resembles two giant toothpicks piercing six large motorized steel rollers. The top three rollers are convex, olive-shaped; the bottom three are concave. Two workers, one on each side, feed raw, flat sheet metal between the rollers, often drawing the part through multiple times until the requisite shape is formed.
"These machines were originally developed in the mid-1800s to make tin cans," Cooper explains. "Because they could form large, complex curved shapes in both steel and aluminum, they were adopted by French coachbuilders and sheet-metal fabricators."
After Cooper hired a French craftsman who had been trained on this rare device, he acquired two of these machines—one to be used in France, the other destined for Wisconsin. In period, to build a custom body, a French carrossier would fabricate a maquette, or "fitting" buck, to establish the car's shape based on designer drawings. As pieces were shaped on the three olives machine, the craftsman would test individual part fits on the buck. There were also "hammer" bucks where workers would pound and shape the panels on the buck itself.
"Major French coachbuilders like Letourneur and Marchand, Figoni and Falaschi and Henri Chapron, and a few Swiss ones, all used this machine," Cooper says. "But the French ateliers kept it a secret and didn't permit photographs inside their shops. They didn't want their techniques known. This machine allowed them to make much more complex, intricately curved, and larger shapes for their cars. And they could do this relatively quickly. In contrast, it would have been a lot of work for a craftsman with an English wheel to fabricate the body for a large, curvaceous car like a Bugatti Atalante. With an English wheel, they had to make the individual panel parts smaller, then carefully weld them together. For competitors in other countries, working without this machine, panel shaping of complex curves was difficult and very time-consuming."
Cooper Technica has also developed unique processes for analyzing vintage automotive paint layers so that the correct original color for a classic car can be determined and mixed. It's almost like studying the growth rings on a tree. A current project involves analyzing myriad layers of paint on a 1914 Peugeot twin-cam racer owned by a prominent race-car collector. A century ago, this historic car competed in several Indianapolis 500s.
"We have some historic photos and documentation for this car, but they are black and white, so they don't show the original colors," he says. "Still, studying the photographs taken in various time periods, we've been able to date every photo we have, and that has assisted our analysis."
From a microscopic laboratory examination of the paint layers on the car, much more can be learned.
"We were able to determine all eight different times the car was repainted over the last 100 years," he says. The original 1914 finish was brushed on, the linseed oil and copal resin-based paint formulated to leave no visible brush strokes. "We know that, in 1919, the Peugeot was repainted in a glossier finish, which was done at the time by coating the paint with varnish. Varnish was the clear-coat of 100 years ago," Cooper says.
Next, the restorers will strip the car and repaint it the way they know it was done in period. This type of work is more common in Europe, but people are starting to do it in the United States.
Cooper's shop not only provides expertise in vintage metal-shaping and paint analysis, it offers maintenance and repair on complex Wilson and Cotal electromagnetic and pre-selector gearboxes. Cooper is probably the only such expert in the U.S. These quick-shifting transmissions, optional in a few luxury, high-performance cars between the wars, were very advanced for their era and require specialized knowledge to make them function properly.
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America's Wetland Foundation and Big Oil
America's Wetland Foundation looks like a typical conservation organization dedicated to saving the wetlands of coastal Louisiana. The front page of their site has an appeal to donate to help save the wetlands from the oil spill and a host of other nice-sounding links. But the page listing the corporate sponsors is, umm, err, interesting…and is not only a who's who of oil companies but still includes BP!!!
But that's fine, right, so long as the oil money doesn't effect the environmental mission…oh, wait, what is this? America's Energy Coast? With the slogan "Shore up. Fuel the Nation." You have got to be kidding me, right? Check out this from their "About Us" section in the "America's Laboratory for Sustainability" subsection:
America's Energy Coast is at the epicenter of solving crucial issues facing this nation: continued and future exploration and production of fossil fuels [bolding is mine] new and alternative energy sources vulnerable coastal communities and the workforce needed to support energy activities, national navigation needs, decaying and inadequate infrastructure, and imperiled coastal ecosystems.
Does anyone out there know anything about either America's Wetland Foundation or America's Energy Coast?
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their indoor cat, B.B. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Val Marmillion
June 30, 2010 10:52:55 am
Hi Corey:
Thanks for your questions. As you may know, many conservation and environmental organizations receive substantial funding from the energy sector. In the case of America's WETLAND Foundation, we launched our initiative in 2002 at an event where the Governor of Louisiana was flanked by the President of Environmental Defense Fund and Shell. This was intentional, as the severe loss of wetlands would require everyone at the table to ensure that we moved immediately to address the greatest rate of land loss on the planet. Since that time many wonderful conservation programs have emerged that otherwise would not be in the works without the support we get from individuals, foundations and industry. For example, we were able to leverage our work with Louisiana's Cultural Restoration and Tourism Department to create the America's WETLAND Birding Trail to complete the only missing link of the Great Gulf Coast Birding Trail. We approached the Shell Foundation and they agreed to provide $800,000 in funding for this purpose. Monies collected from individuals to support our effort go to a special fund to support the America's WETLAND Conservation Corp work which is a partnership between the LSU Ag Center and AmeriCorps that has logged tens of thousands of volunteer hours toward citizen restoration through in the ground projects. We created the America's Energy Coast initiative to build better cooperation among commercial and conservation/environmental interests in the region and to engender support from industry to push restoration as a top priority. Our groundbreaking report, Region at Risk, details some of the problems we have faced with restoration because of federal conflicting policy, such as we see with the Corps of Engineers not using Mississippi River dredge materials for restoration purposes. If you look carefully through our materials, you will find that our actions toward saving America's WETLAND are impressive. The company we keep is not a secret because we feel that solutions will come when all who have a stake in the region make saving it a top priority. I appreciate the sincerity of your questions and hope that this helps you to better understand our mission and the urgency of saving one of America's true environmental treasures. We encourage you to text $10, for our next planting when the oil spill issue allows us back into the marshes. Best.
America's WETLAND Foundation
As a non-profit you have to sometimes keep company with folks you would rather not. My Museum is non-sectarian and non-denominational, yet we happily cash the checks from groups that are. Why? Because even though we disagree with them on many issues, we do have common support for one another on certain issues.
There are people in Big Oil, even at BP who are appalled by this and are working hard to find solutions behind the scenes. You won't find these folk on TV or giving interviews, that gets left to the bungling PR department and the head idiots at these places, who have been exposed that they really have no idea how to run the industry they are in.
I'm sure your aware of the old saying, keep your friends close and your enemies closer, is something a lot of activist non-profits must do to survive and fulfill their mission.
June 30, 2010 1:12:23 pm
@Val: Thanks for your comment. My opinion (based on what little I can dig up) is that while your organization does good work restoring wetlands your mission is harmed by your association with oil companies.
Providing greenwashing for the worst polluters out there is not the route I would take. And it seems like from the very beginning of your organization's existence that greenwashing has been a service that you provide.
You've put out a study attacking the federal government for being slow in doling out money for wetland preservation while BP is listed as a sponsor of your organization (blame the feds not the oil companies?). Also, and this is telling, I can't find a single reference to climate change or global warming on your entire site; for an organization concerned about losing wetlands this is simply absurd. Does this have anything to do with the money from oil companies?
@Will: I absolutely hear you. But do (or would) you guys take money from organizations actively destroying (even unintentionally) what you are trying to preserve?
@ Corey: No we would probley not take the money from those organizations, but It wouldn't happen over night. In many cases when companies donate to non-profits there are contracts signed before money changes hands. These usually have a start date and an end date, breaking the deal before the end date could put us in the old Breach of Contract issue and possibly have to repay the grant, ie money we already spent.
While internally we would want to find ways to distance ourselves as quickly as possible, we may not be able to take the same stand publically. In that situation you do what Val has tried to do, respond to criticism by hammering home what good you have done and constantly remind people of your non-profit mission.
Its really a no win situation for the non-profit.
By the way… I'm not a BP apologist, I just want people to keep focused on whose at fault here.
Out of curiosity I looked up America's Wetland Foundation's 2008 Form 990 (the tax filing non-profits have to file with the IRS) and if they are in bed with big oil… they need their sugar daddies to start paying more.
The organization made approximately $300,000 in revenue in 2008, $177,869 was from the Government (Local, State and Federal) while $81, 259 came from private sources (other foundation grants, donations etc.) Thus they took in 2 times more money from the Government than business. At the end of the year, they had less than $20,000 in resources left.
Look at 2007, according to their 990… they were some $80,000 in the red. Sounds like a typcial non-profit to me.
Corey: I am not intent on this going back and forth, as our record speaks for itself. I also know that you are sincere in your concerns. Just a few more notes that I hope will help you to understand how hard we are committed to saving the wetlands. Our agenda is transparent and, like most environmental initiatives, appreciates the private support to build awareness but is not driven by funders. However, we do not hide under project names or various coalition titles. The America's WETLAND Foundation is guided by an independent board with environmental and conservation credentials dedicated to raising public awareness of the impact of Louisiana's wetland loss on the state, nation and world. We do not have large donors on the board. Earlier this year, we did have a hearing on climate change and how our region can create resilient communities. Co-chairing that hearing was Pew Center for Climate Change and Entergy Corporation. That is the way we conduct our hearings, with co-chairs including NGO and corporate representatives. We think that this builds understanding and cooperation in a very combative world. You may know that we have a trifecta: subsidence, sea level rise, and coastal erosion. We have the largest dead zone in the world growing in the Gulf of Mexico due to leveeing of the Mississippi River in 1927. Those toxins which could be beneficially applied as nutrients and sediments to our starving wetlands instead are trapped and not connected to the marshes. Our foundation brought the metaphor of a football field of land lost every 50 minutes to national attention; we work with all communities to save species and man alike. You could help us by encouraging elected officials to ensure that any monies spent for oil spill recovery include some percentage for coastal restoration and that includes BP's escrow fund. At the end of the day, the very survival of this region depends on restoration not attacking the symptoms and not the disease. We promote a change of posture away from consequence planning after disasters to forecasting our problems and having proactive solutions. Good science is critical as is comprehensive planning, all of which will be for naught if we don't immediate change the business of saving our coastal estuaries before it is too late…and, that is right around the corner. I hope that this is helpful. Finally, a word about greenwashing. None of us in this effort are naive and have solid credentials. We use funds received from individuals and certain foundations for on the ground restoration activities with plantings by our America's WETLAND Conservation Corps. When you see our appeal for donations, the money goes to restoration in partnership with AmeriCorps and the LSU AgCenter. In this way, volunteers who logged over 25,000 hours last year can get dirty while being educated about the issue. So, we do the real deal and there is no rhetoric or greenwashing involved when getting dirty and ending the day looking back at your dirty fingernails. Again, thanks for caring enough to ask about our work.
July 01, 2010 3:02:39 pm
Do not let this modern-day Edward Bernaysian con man fool you. Ask him about how Shell Oil has managed to privatize large swathes of land all over New Orleans, including our once publicly funded zoo (formerly known as the New Orleans Audubon Zoo). Ask him why it now costs $50 to attend Jazz Fest. Ask him why it is his "non-profit" front group for the oil industry thinks it's the U.S. taxpayers' job to restore Louisiana's wetlands that Shell destroyed. Got any answers to these questions, Val?
P.S.-Where's AWF's mainstream outrage over the oil that's hemorrhaging, non-stop, into the Gulf? Nowhere to be found, that's where.
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First Spanish Speaking Support Group
Ann's Place is excited to announce a great kick off to the Spanish Speaking Support Group in March 2016! The Spanish Speaking Support Group takes place the third Tuesday of every month at the Danbury Library; it is led by Bilingual Clinical Social Worker Candy Murias, LMSW.
Peggy O'Shea has volunteered to join the April meeting, on Tuesday April 19th, 2016. Attendees can look forward to a wonderful night discussing wellness techniques, and a holistic approach to better health. Ann's Place is excited to continue to grow the Health Equity Program by providing more services to meet our clients' needs!
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Health Equity Initiative Launches
The Board of Directors of Ann's Place is pleased to announce that Ann's Place will launch its new Health Equity Initiative, funded by the BI Cares Foundation, on July 22. A collaboration between Ann's Place and The Hispanic Center of Greater Danbury (Centro Hispano), the Health Equity Initiative will enable Ann's Place, a community-based cancer support center, to provide services at Centro Hispano, in downtown Danbury, as well as bilingual services onsite at 80 Saw Mill Road.
There will be an Open House to celebrate this new initiative at Ann's Place, 80 Saw Mill Road, Danbury on Wednesday, July 22, 2015 at noon. Members of the public are invited. Light refreshments will be served.
"Part of our vision at Ann's Place is to extend the reach of our services to patients and families who are not getting the support they need because of language barriers, poverty, or lack of access to transportation," said Anthony Zeolla, Ann's Place President & CEO. "We are delighted to be able to offer our services at Centro in the heart of Danbury. We hope that this collaboration with Centro—with its accessible location, varied programs, and its deep roots in the community—will help us to better serve populations that for too long have been overlooked and under-served."
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