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Of Kings and Prophets is an American television drama based on the Biblical Books of Samuel that premiered on ABC.[1] The series follows an ensemble of characters including Saul and David, the successive Kings of Israel, their families, and their political rivals. Of Kings and Prophets is set in the Kingdom of Israel, but filmed in Cape Town, South Africa.[2]
Biblical Drama
Bible, Books of Samuel
Bill Collage
Olly Rix
Simone Kessell
James Floyd
Haaz Sleiman
Maisie Richardson-Sellers
Mohammad Bakri
Louis Talpe
Nathaniel Parker
Lyne Renée
Mark Kilian
9 (list of episodes)
Michael Offer
Maynard Tousi
Jason T. Reed
Chris Brancato
Tina Grewal
Vlokkie Gordon
Paul Eckstein
Production location(s)
George Steel
Sidney Sidell
Trevor Michael Brown
Adam Bluming
Tim Mirkovich
BoomGen Studios
Philotimo Factory
Jason T. Reed Productions
Disney-ABC Domestic Television
Original network
720p (16:9 HDTV)
March 8 (2016-03-08) –
March 15, 2016 (2016-03-15)
The series was originally scheduled to premiere in late 2015. However, due to creative changes, it was moved to mid-season in the 2015–16 television season,[3][4] and premiered on March 8, 2016. Due to low ratings, ABC canceled the series after airing two episodes.[5] All nine episodes aired in New Zealand in March–May 2016.[citation needed] As of February 2018, all nine episodes were available for rent or purchase on Amazon Prime, Google Play, iTunes, Vudu and YouTube.
1 Cast and characters
1.2 Recurring
3.2 Parental group reaction
Cast and charactersEdit
MainEdit
Ray Winstone as Saul, the king of Israel
Olly Rix as David, a shepherd and the future king of Israel
Simone Kessell as Ahinoam, the queen of Israel and Saul's wife[6]
James Floyd as Ishbaal, the younger son of Saul and Ahinoam
Haaz Sleiman as Jonathan, the elder son of Saul and Ahinoam
Maisie Richardson-Sellers as Michal, the younger daughter of Saul and a Kushite concubine
Jeanine Mason as Merav, the elder daughter of Saul and Ahinoam
Mohammad Bakri as Samuel, the prophet of Israel
David Walmsley as Yoab, the nephew of David
Nathaniel Parker as Achish, the king of Philistine
RecurringEdit
Louis Talpe as Eliab,[7] the eldest brother of David and soldier in Saul's army.
Christina Chong as Rizpah, the concubine of Saul
Rowena King as Zaphra
Lyne Renee as The Witch of Endor
Élodie Yung as Rizpah
Alex McGregor as Sarah[8]
ProductionEdit
Writers Adam Cooper and Bill Collage said at the Television Critics Association press tour that they hope to push the envelope "as far as we can" in regards to the amount of sex and violence featured on the series.[9] Showrunner Chris Brancato later clarified "This story is an Old Testament [one that's] violent [and] sex-drenched. It's one of the world's first soap operas. ... You will watch a show that is tasteful but that also tells the story you can read if you want to pick up the Bible."[9] Then-ABC president Paul Lee (who was removed from the network before the show premiered) described the pilot episode simply as "muscular".[10]
Cooper suggested that if need be, some of the more graphic scenes on the series may be edited for public broadcast, and release the originally intended scenes for online viewing.[11] This did indeed occur with the first episode, which was released online with additional sexual content and nudity that was not seen in the ABC broadcast.
Critical responseEdit
The show has received below average reviews from critics, with some critics negatively comparing it to Game of Thrones.[12][13] On Metacritic, the first season of Of Kings and Prophets received a score of 47/100 based on 16 media reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[14] On Rotten Tomatoes, it holds a 29% approval rating based on 17 media reviews with its critical consensus: "Of Kings and Prophets tries to add a Game of Thrones-inspired spin to the Old Testament, but ends up an aimless muddle."[12] In the show's favor Variety wrote "Its courtly sets, tents, and marketplaces often have a pleasingly realistic level of detail, and some glimpses of the outdoor scenery of South Africa (which stands in for ancient Israel) are breathtaking."[15] IGN noted, "It does have a few things going for it, including high production values and intriguing political and religious themes. Winstone (as Saul) brings a very human quality to the character that is usually left out of other depictions."[16]
Parental group reactionEdit
The Parents Television Council criticized the series for scenes of sex and violence and called for it to be removed from the network's schedule.[17][18] The PTC has compared the show's content to a "broadcast" version of Game of Thrones.[13]
RatingsEdit
The first episode opened up to 3.32 million viewers. The second episode had lower ratings, having live viewing of 2.42 million viewers, assuring the show's cancellation. Beyond the Tank, which had aired several episodes in the fall and early winter in the same timeslot, returned for the remainder of the season.
EpisodesEdit
US viewers
"Offerings of Blood" Michael Offer Adam Cooper & Bill Collage March 8, 2016 (2016-03-08) 3.33[19]
In order to defend his kingdom, King Saul of the Israelites arranges a strategic marriage for his daughter Merav to the Eitan of Judah's son Mattiyahu in hopes it will unify the 12 Israelite tribes against their enemies, the Philistines. In the midst of the wedding preparations, Prophet Samuel brings the king a message from God—to destroy the Amalekites. Meanwhile, after his flock of sheep was killed by a lion, the shepherd David travels to the king's palace in Gibeah to settle his family's debt. But when he can't afford his taxes, he must pay the penalty with a flogging. To settle the matter, he makes a deal with Ahinoam, the queen to either kill the beast or perish.
"Let the Wicked Be Ashamed" Duane Clark Theresa Rebeck March 15, 2016 (2016-03-15) 2.42[20]
"Lest I Sleep the Sleep of Death" Michael Robison Adam Cooper March 23, 2016 (2016-03-23) (New Zealand) N/A
"Beasts of the Reeds" David Boyd Dan Dworkin & Jay Beattie March 30, 2016 (2016-03-30) (N.Z.) N/A
"Little Lower than the Angels" Jean de Segonzac Janet Lin April 6, 2016 (2016-04-06) (N.Z.) N/A
"Honor in the Dust" Romeo Tirone Theresa Rebeck April 13, 2016 (2016-04-13) (N.Z.) N/A
"Train My Hands for War" Duane Clark Zach Calig April 20, 2016 (2016-04-20) (N.Z.) N/A
"Broken Teeth of the Ungodly" Bobby Roth Dan Dworkin & Jay Beattie April 27, 2016 (2016-04-27) (N.Z.) N/A
"No King is Saved" Ericson Core Paul Eckstein & Angela LaManna May 4, 2016 (2016-05-04) (N.Z.) N/A
^ Andreeva, Nellie (May 12, 2015). "ABC Fall Schedule 2015 — First Look". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 12, 2015.
^ Andreeva, Nellie (March 4, 2015). "TV Pilot Locations 2015: New York Slips, LA Rebounds & More". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
^ Andreeva, Nellie (May 7, 2015). "ABC Orders Six Drama Pilots To Series". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved May 9, 2015.
^ Andreeva, Nellie (June 2, 2015). "'Of Kings and Prophets' Pulled From ABC Fall Schedule, 'Quantico' Goes To Sunday". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved June 2, 2015.
^ Keveney, Bill (March 18, 2016). "ABC cancels 'Of Kings and Prophets' after two episodes". USA Today. Retrieved March 20, 2016.
^ "About Of Kings and Prophets". abc.go.com. Retrieved 13 November 2015.
^ Denise Petski. "The Walking Dead Adds Jay Huguley - Deadline". Deadline Hollywood. Retrieved 21 October 2015.
^ "This SA actress just landed a MAJOR international TV role". News24. 6 March 2017. Retrieved 2 February 2019.
^ a b Sandberg, Bryn Elise (January 8, 2016). "'Of Kings and Prophets' Boss Talks Sexually Explicit Bible Series: "We're Going to Go as Far as We Can"". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
^ Hughes, WIlliam (January 9, 2016). "ABC's Of Kings And Prophets might shove all its sex and violence online". The A.V. Club. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
^ Wagmeister, Elizabeth (January 9, 2016). "ABC Drama 'Of Kings and Prophets' May Offer Racier Edits of Episodes Online". Variety. Retrieved January 10, 2016.
^ a b Of Kings and Prophets at Rotten Tomatoes
^ a b Henson, Melissa (March 1, 2016). "ABC's "Of Kings and Prophets", Broadcast TV's Version of HBO's Explicit "Game Of Thrones"". Parents Television Council. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
^ Of Kings and Prophets at Metacritic
^ Ryan, Maureen (2016-03-06). "TV Review: 'Of Kings and Prophets'". Variety. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
^ Nicholson, Max (2016-03-08). "Of Kings and Prophets: "Offerings of Blood" Review". IGN. Retrieved 2018-04-15.
^ Goldberg, Lesley (March 8, 2016). "Parents Television Council Blasts ABC's Biblical Drama 'Of Kings and Prophets'". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved March 10, 2016.
^ Pena, Jessica (March 9, 2016). "Of Kings and Prophets: PTC Wants ABC TV Series Cancelled". TV Series Finale. Retrieved March 11, 2016.
^ Porter, Rick (March 9, 2016). "Tuesday Final Ratings: 'Limitless' and 'NCIS: New Orleans' rerun adjust up". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved March 9, 2016.
^ Porter, Rick (March 16, 2016). "Tuesday Final Ratings: 'Crowded' adjusts down". TV by the Numbers. Retrieved March 16, 2016.
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When a writer writes a story one of the most powerful tools that an author could use is the use of symbols. The use of symbols in a story helps the reader engage in the story and help the reader to understand and make conclusions about the story. In this book Steinbeck uses symbols of puppies, mice and bunnies to show the reader Lennie's characteristics and physical traits of Lennie. Lennie is a grown man that doesn't know his own strength and still acts like a small child. In the book Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck uses mice, puppies, and bunnies as a symbol to show Lennie's traits. George and Lennie wanted to own a ranch and tend animals, that is what their dream was when they get enough money. As soon as George agreed to Lennie about their dream, Lennie could only think about that dream just like a kid would if their parents agreed to buy them something. This is relatable to an animal because animals are the same they are selfish and don't care about anything else until they get what they want even though it can harm others. Lennie loves the rabbits and puppies too much until he became oblivious to his surrounding and does not know about his living condition. While others are working hard to get food and money Lennie would be off into the barn and playing with the animals. Since this took place during the great depression, their living situation was very bad because they had to live on the owners land and work really hard just to get a little. During the great depression only the strong survive and not many can survive.
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The South Side is one of the three major sections of the city of Chicago, Illinois. Geographically, it is the largest of the three sections of the city, with the other two being the North Side and the West Side. It radiates and lies south of the city's downtown area, the Chicago Loop.

Much of the South Side came from the city's annexation of townships such as Hyde Park. The city's Sides have historically been divided by the Chicago River and its branches. The South Side of Chicago was originally defined as all of the city south of the main branch of the Chicago River, but it now excludes the Loop. The South Side has a varied ethnic composition and a great variety of income levels and other demographic measures. It has a reputation for crime, although most crime is contained within certain neighborhoods, not throughout the South Side itself, and residents range from affluent to middle class to poor.
South Side neighborhoods such as Armour Square, Back of the Yards, Bridgeport, and Pullman host more blue collar and middle-class residents, while Hyde Park, the Jackson Park Highlands District, Kenwood, Beverly, Mount Greenwood, and west Morgan Park range from middle class to more affluent residents.

The South Side boasts a broad array of cultural and social offerings, such as professional sports teams, landmark buildings, museums, educational institutions, medical institutions, beaches, and major parts of Chicago's parks system. The South Side has numerous bus routes and 'L' train lines via the Chicago Transit Authority, it hosts Midway Airport, and includes several Metra rail commuter lines. There are portions of the U.S. Interstate Highway System and also national highways such as Lake Shore Drive.

Boundaries

There is some debate as to the South Side's boundaries. Originally the sides were taken from the banks of the Chicago River. The city's address numbering system uses a grid demarcating Madison Street as the east–west axis and State Street as the north–south axis. Madison is in the middle of the Loop. As a result, much of the downtown "Loop" district is south of Madison Street (and the river), but the Loop is usually excluded from any of the Sides.

One definition has the South Side beginning at Roosevelt Road, at the Loop's southern boundary, with the community area known as the Near South Side immediately adjacent. Another definition, taking into account that much of the Near South Side is in effect part of the commercial district extending in an unbroken line from the South Loop, locates the boundary immediately south of 18th Street or Cermak Road, where Chinatown in the Armour Square community area begins.

Lake Michigan and the Indiana state line provide eastern boundaries. The southern border changed over time because of Chicago's evolving city limits; the city limits are now at 138th Street (in Riverdale and Hegewisch). The South Side is larger in area than the North and West Sides combined.

Neighborhoods
Out of 77 community areas in the city, the South Side of Chicago comprises a total of 42 neighborhoods, with some divided into different regions of the area or consolidated into Chicago as part of the annexation of various townships within Cook County.

South Side
 Armour Square
 Bridgeport
 Douglas
 Englewood (half of Englewood on its far left is connected with the Southwest Side of Chicago)
 Fuller Park
 Grand Boulevard
 Greater Grand Crossing
 Hyde Park
 Kenwood
 Oakland
 South Shore
 Washington Park
 Woodlawn

Southwest Side
 Archer Heights
 Brighton Park
 Chicago Lawn
 Clearing
 Gage Park
 Garfield Ridge
 McKinley Park
 New City
 West Elsdon
 West Englewood
 West Lawn

Far Southwest Side
 Ashburn
 Auburn Gresham
 Beverly
 Morgan Park
 Mount Greenwood
 Washington Heights

Far Southeast Side

 Avalon Park
 Burnside
 Calumet Heights
 Chatham
 East Side
 Hegewisch
 Pullman
 Riverdale
 Roseland
 South Chicago
 South Deering
 West Pullman

Subdivisions

The exact boundaries dividing the Southwest, South, and Southeast Sides vary by source. If primarily racial lines are followed, the South Side can generally be divided into a White and Hispanic Southwest Side, a largely Black South Side and a smaller, more racially diverse Southeast Side centered on the East Side community area and including the adjacent community areas of South Chicago, South Deering and Hegewisch.

The differing interpretations of the boundary between the South and Southwest Sides are due to a lack of a definite natural or artificial boundary. One source states that the boundary is Western Avenue or the railroad tracks adjacent to Western Avenue. This border extends further south to a former railroad right of way paralleling Beverly Avenue and then Interstate 57.

The Southwest Side of Chicago is a subsection of the South Side comprising mainly white, black, and Hispanic neighborhoods, usually dominated by one of these races. On the Southwest Side exclusively, the northern portion has a high concentration of Hispanics, the western portion has a high concentration of whites, and the eastern portion has a high concentration of blacks. Architecturally, the Southwest Side is distinguished by the tract of Chicago's Bungalow Belt, which runs through it.

Archer Heights, a Polish enclave along Archer Avenue, which leads toward Midway Airport, is located on the Southwest Side of the city, as are Beverly and Morgan Park, home to a large concentration of Irish Americans.

History

With its factories, steel mills and meat-packing plants, the South Side saw a sustained period of immigration which began around the 1840s and continued through World War II. Irish, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian and Yugoslav immigrants, in particular, settled in neighborhoods adjacent to industrial zones.

The Illinois Constitution gave rise to townships that provided municipal services in 1850. Several settlements surrounding Chicago incorporated as townships to better serve their residents. Growth and prosperity overburdened many local government systems. In 1889, most of these townships determined that they would be better off as part of a larger city of Chicago. Lake View, Jefferson, Lake, Hyde Park Townships and the Austin portion of Cicero voted to be annexed by the city in the June 29, 1889, elections.

After the Civil War freed millions of slaves, during Reconstruction black southerners migrated to Chicago and caused the black population to nearly quadruple from 4,000 to 15,000 between 1870 and 1890.

In the 20th century, the numbers expanded with the Great Migration, as blacks left the agrarian South seeking a better future in the industrial North, including the South Side. By 1910, the black population in Chicago reached 40,000, with 78% residing in the Black Belt. Extending 30 blocks, mostly between 31st and 55th Streets, along State Street, but only a few blocks wide, it developed into a vibrant community dominated by black businesses, music, food and culture.
As more blacks moved into the South Side, descendants of earlier immigrants, such as ethnic Irish, began to move out. Later housing pressures and civic unrest caused more whites to leave the area and the city. Older residents of means moved to newer suburban housing as new migrants entered the city, driving further demographic changes.

The South Side was racially segregated for many decades. During the 1920s and 1930s, housing cases on the South Side such as Hansberry v. Lee, , went to the U. S. Supreme Court. The case, which reset the limitations of res judicata, successfully challenged racial restrictions in the Washington Park Subdivision by reopening them for legal argument. Blacks resided in Bronzeville (around 35th and State Streets) in an area called "the Black Belt". After World War II, blacks spread across the South Side; its center, east, and western portions. The Black Belt arose from discriminatory real estate practices by whites against blacks and other racial groups.

In the early 1960s, during the tenure of then Mayor Richard J. Daley, the construction of the Dan Ryan Expressway created controversy. Many perceived the highway's location as an intentional physical barrier between white and black neighborhoods, particularly as the Dan Ryan divided Daley's own neighborhood, the traditionally Irish Bridgeport, from Bronzeville.

The economic conditions that led to migration into the South Side were not sustained. Mid-century industrial restructuring in meat packing and the steel industry cost many jobs. Blacks who became educated and achieved middle-class jobs also left after the Civil Rights Movement to other parts of the city.

Street gangs have been prominent in some South Side neighborhoods for over a century, beginning with those of Irish immigrants, who established the first territories in a struggle against other European and black migrants. Some other neighborhoods stayed relatively safe for a big city. By the 1960s, gangs such as the Vice Lords began to improve their public image, shifting from criminal ventures to operating social programs funded by government and private grants. However, in the 1970s gangs returned to violence and the drug trade. By 2000, traditionally all-male gangs crossed gender lines to include about 20% females.

Housing

By the 1930s, the city of Chicago boasted that over 25% of its residential structures were less than 10 years old, many of which were bungalows. These continued to be built in the working-class South Side into the 1960s. Studio apartments, with Murphy beds and kitchenettes or Pullman kitchens, comprised a large part of the housing supply during and after the Great Depression, especially in the "Black Belt". The South Side had a history of philanthropic subsidized housing dating back to 1919.

The United States Congress passed the Housing Act of 1949 to fund and improve public housing. CHA produced a plan of citywide projects, which was rejected by the Chicago City Council's white aldermen who opposed public housing in their wards. This led to a CHA policy of construction of family housing only in black residential areas, concentrated on the South and West Sides. Historian Arnold R. Hirsch said the CHA was "a bulwark of segregation that helped sustain Chicago's 'second ghetto'".

Gentrification

Gentrification of parts of the Douglas community area has bolstered the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District. Gentrification in various parts of the South Side has displaced many black citizens. The South Side offers numerous housing cooperatives. Hyde Park has several middle-income co-ops and other South Side regions have limited equity (subsidized, price-controlled) co-ops. These regions experienced condominium construction and conversion in the 1970s and 1980s.

In the late 20th century, the South Side had some of the poorest housing conditions in the U.S., but the Chicago Housing Authority (CHA) began replacing the old high-rise public housing with mixed-income, lower-density developments, part of the city's Plan for Transformation. Many of the CHA's massive public housing projects, which lined several miles of South State Street, have been demolished. Among the largest were the Robert Taylor Homes.

Demographics

Some census tracts (4904 in Roseland, 7106 in Auburn Gresham) are 99% black. The South Side covers over 50% of the city's land area alone. It has a higher ratio of single-family homes and larger sections zoned for industry than the North or West Sides.

Hyde Park is home to the University of Chicago, as well as the South Side's largest Jewish population, centered on Chicago's oldest synagogue, the Chicago Landmark KAM Isaiah Israel. The Southwest Side's ethnic makeup also includes the largest concentration of Górals, (Carpathian highlanders) outside of Europe; it is the location of the Polish Highlanders Alliance of North America. A large Mexican-American population resides in Little Village (South Lawndale) and areas south of 99th Street.

Ethnic parades

The South Side Irish Parade occurs in the Beverly neighborhood along Western Avenue each year on the Sunday before St. Patrick's Day. The parade, which was founded in 1979, was at one time said to be the largest Irish neighborhood St. Patrick's celebration in the world outside of Dublin, Ireland, and was—until being scaled back in 2012—actually larger than Chicago's other St. Patrick's Day parade in the Loop. The South Side parade became such an event that it was broadcast on Chicago's CBS affiliate. Following the 2009 parade, organizers stated the group was "not planning to stage a parade in its present form". The parade was cancelled in 2010 and 2011 before being revived with more strict security and law enforcement. The Bud Billiken Parade and Picnic, the second largest parade in the U.S. and the nation's largest black parade, runs annually on Martin Luther King Drive between 31st and 51st Streets in the Bronzeville neighborhood, through the main portion of the South Side.

Economic development
Neighborhood rehabilitation (and, in some cases, gentrification) can be seen in parts of Washington Park, Woodlawn (#42) and Bronzeville, as well as in Bridgeport and McKinley Park. Historic Pullman's redevelopment is another example of a work in progress. Chinatown is located on the South Side and has seen a surge in growth.  It has become an increasingly popular destination for both tourists and locals alike and is a cornerstone of the city's Chinese community. The South Side offers many outdoor amenities, such as miles of public lakefront parks and beaches, as it borders Lake Michigan on its eastern side.

Today's South Side is mostly a combination of the former Hyde Park and Lake Townships. Within these townships many had made speculative bets on future prosperity.  Much of the South Side evolved from these speculative investments. Stephen A. Douglas, Paul Cornell, George Pullman and various business entities developed South Chicago real estate. The Pullman District, a former company town, Hyde Park Township, various platted communities and subdivisions were the results of such efforts.

The Union Stock Yards, which were once located in the New City community area (#61), at one point employed 25,000 people and produced 82 percent of US domestic meat production. They were so synonymous with the city that for over a century they were part of the lyrics of Frank Sinatra's "My Kind of Town", in the phrase: "The Union Stock Yard, Chicago is ..." The Union Stock Yard Gate marking the old entrance to stockyards was designated a Chicago Landmark on February 24, 1972, and a National Historic Landmark on May 29, 1981.

Other South Side regions have been known for great wealth, such as Prairie Avenue. 21st century redevelopment includes One Museum Park and One Museum Park West.

The South Side accommodates much of the city's conference business with various convention centers. The current McCormick Place Convention Center is the largest convention center in the U.S. and the third largest in the world. Previously, the South Side hosted conventions at the Chicago Coliseum and the International Amphitheatre. The Ford City Mall and the surrounding shopping district includes several big-box retailers.

Political figures

The South Side has been home to some of the most significant figures in the history of American politics. These include Richard J. Daley and his son, Richard M. Daley; the first black U.S. President, Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama; the first black female U.S. Senator, Carol Moseley Braun; and the first black presidential candidate to win a primary, Jesse Jackson.  Before them, Harold Washington, a Congressman and the first black Mayor of Chicago, as well as groundbreaking Congressman William L. Dawson, achieved political success from the South Side.

Education

Colleges and universities
The University of Chicago is one of the world's leading universities, counting 97 affiliated Nobel laureates. At Chicago Pile-1 at the university, the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was achieved under the direction of Enrico Fermi in the 1940s.

Other four-year educational institutions there are the Illinois Institute of Technology, St. Xavier University, Chicago State University, Illinois College of Optometry and Shimer College. The South Side also hosts community colleges such as Olive-Harvey College, Kennedy-King College and Richard J. Daley College.

Primary and secondary schools

Chicago Public Schools operates the public schools on the South Side, including DuSable High School, Simeon Career Academy, John Hope College Prep High School and Phillips Academy High School.
The De La Salle Institute, located in the Douglas community area across the street from Chicago Police Department headquarters, has taught five Chicago Mayors: Richard J. Daley, Michael A. Bilandic, Martin H. Kennelly, Frank J. Corr and Richard M. Daley.  Three of these mayors hail from the South Side's Bridgeport community area, which also produced two other Chicago Mayors.

University of Chicago Lab School, affiliated with the University of Chicago, is a private school located there.

Landmarks

The South Side is home to many official landmarks and other notable buildings and structures. It hosts three of the four Chicago Registered Historic Places from the original October 15, 1966 National Register of Historic Places list (Chicago Pile-1, Robie House and Lorado Taft Midway Studios).

One Museum Park, which is along Roosevelt Road, is the tallest building on the South Side. One Museum Park West, which is next door to One Museum Park, is another of Chicago's tallest. 1700 East 56th Street in Hyde Park is the tallest building south of 13th Street. This neighborhood hosts several other highrises.

Many landmark buildings are found in the Black Metropolis-Bronzeville District, including Powhatan Apartments, Robie House and John J. Glessner House. The South Side has many of Chicago's premier places of worship such as Eighth Church of Christ, Scientist, First Church of Deliverance and K.A.M. Isaiah Israel Temple.

The South Side has several landmark districts including two in Barack Obama's Kenwood community area: Kenwood District, North Kenwood District and (partially) Hyde Park-Kenwood Historic District. The South Side hosts the Museum of Science and Industry, located in the Palace of Fine Arts, one of the few remaining buildings from the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, which was hosted in South Side.

The South Side is the residence of other prominent black leaders such as Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan. It is also where U.S. Congressman Bobby Rush (a former Black Panther leader) serves.

The South Side has been a place of political controversy. Although the locations of some of these notable controversies have not become official landmarks, they remain important parts of Chicago history. The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 was the worst of the approximately 25 riots during the Red Summer of 1919 and required 6,000 National Guard troops. As mentioned above, segregation has been a political theme of controversy for some time on the South Side as exhibited by Hansberry v. Lee, .

President Obama announced in 2015 that the Barack Obama Presidential Center would be built adjacent the University of Chicago campus. Both Washington Park and Jackson Park were considered and it was announced in July 2016 that it would be built in Jackson Park.

Transportation

The South Side is served by mass transit as well as roads and highways. Midway International Airport is located on the South Side. Among the highways through the South Side are I-94 (which goes by the names Dan Ryan Expressway, Bishop Ford Freeway and Kingery Expressway on the South Side), I-90 (which goes by the names Dan Ryan Expressway and Chicago Skyway on the South Side), I-57, I-55, U.S. 12, U.S. 20 and U.S. 41.

Several Chicago Transit Authority (CTA) bus and train lines and Metra train lines link the South Side to rest of the city. The South Side is served by the Red, Green and Orange lines of the CTA and the Rock Island District, Metra Electric and South Shore Metra lines and a few stops on the SouthWest Service Metra line. Standard local metropolitan bus service and CTA express service bus routes provide service to the Loop.

Arts

Chicago's African American community, concentrated on the South Side, experienced an artistic movement from the 1930s until the 1960s. The movement was concentrated in and around the Hyde Park community area. Prominent writers and artists included Gwendolyn Brooks, Margaret Burroughs, Elizabeth Catlett, Eldzier Cortor, Gordon Parks, and Richard Wright.

Other Chicago Black Renaissance artists included Willard Motley, William Attaway, Frank Marshall Davis, and Margaret Walker. St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton represented the new wave of intellectual expression in literature by depicting the culture of the urban ghetto rather than the culture of blacks in the South in the monograph Black Metropolis. In 1961, Burroughs founded the DuSable Museum of African American History.  By the late 1960s the South Side had a robost art movement led by Jim Nutt, Gladys Nilsson, Karl Wirsum and others, who became known as the Chicago Imagists.

Music in Chicago flourished, with musicians bringing blues and gospel influences up from the South and creating a Chicago sound in blues and jazz that the city is still renowned for. The South Side was known for its R&B acts and the city as a while had successful rock acts. Many major and independent record companies had a presence in Chicago. In 1948, Blues was introduced by Aristocrat Records (later Chess Records). Muddy Waters and Chess Records quickly followed with Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Walter, Jimmy Rogers, and Howlin' Wolf.

Vee-Jay, the largest black-owned label before Motown Records, was among the post-World War II companies that formed "Record Row" on Cottage Grove between 47th and 50th Streets. In the 1960s, it was located along South Michigan Avenue. Rhythm and blues continued to thrive after Record Row became the hub of gospelized rhythm and blues, known as soul. Chicago continues as a prominent musical city.

Many other artists have left their mark on Chicago's South Side. These include writers Upton Sinclair and James Farrell, Archibald Motley, Jr. via painting, Henry Moore and Lorado Taft via sculpture and Thomas Dorsey and Mahalia Jackson via gospel music. The South Side has many art museums and galleries such as the DuSable Museum of African American History, National Museum of Mexican Art, National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum, and the David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art (known as the Smart Museum). In addition, cultural centers such as the South Shore Cultural Center, South Side Community Art Center, Harold Washington Cultural Center and Hyde Park Art Center bring art and culture to the public while fostering opportunities for artists. The Bronzeville Children's Museum is the only African American Children's museum in the U.S.

Parks

The Chicago Park District boasts  of parkland, 552 parks, 33 beaches, nine museums, two world-class conservatories, 16 historic lagoons and ten bird/wildlife gardens. Many of these are on the South Side, including several large parks that are part of the legacy of Paul Cornell's service on the South Parks Commission. He was also the father of Hyde Park.

Chicago Park District parks serving the South Side include Burnham Park, Jackson Park, Washington Park, Midway Plaisance, and Harold Washington Park. Away from the Hyde Park area, large parks include the  McKinley Park,  Marquette Park, the  Calumet Park, and the  Douglass Park. The parks of Chicago foster and host tremendous amounts of athletic activities.

The South Side has the only Illinois state park within the city of Chicago: William W. Powers State Recreation Area. Other opportunities for more "natural" recreation are provided by the Cook County Forest Preserve's Dan Ryan Woods and the Beaubien Woods on the far south side, along the Little Calumet River

Various events cause the closure of parts of Lake Shore Drive. Although the Chicago Marathon causes many roads to be closed in its route that goes as far north as Wrigleyville and to Bronzeville on the South Side, it does not cause closures to the drive. However, on the South Side, the Chicago Half Marathon necessitates closures and the entire drive is closed for Bike The Drive.

Beginning in 1905, the White City Amusement Park, located on 63rd Street provided a recreational area to the citizens of the area. Until the early 1920s, a dirigible service ran from the park, which was also where Goodyear Blimps were first produced, to Grant Park. This service was discontinued after the Wingfoot Air Express Crash. A fire destroyed much of the park in the late 1920s and more was torn down in the 1930s. The park filed for bankruptcy in 1933 and 1943. Despite attempts to resurrect the park in 1936 and 1939, by 1946 all the remaining equipment was auctioned off.

Sports

The South Side hosts three major professional athletic teams: Major League Baseball's Chicago White Sox play at Guaranteed Rate Field in the Armour Square neighborhood, while the National Football League's Chicago Bears and Chicago Fire FC of Major League Soccer play at Soldier Field, adjacent to the Museum Campus on the Near South Side. Nine other teams—five now defunct, two playing in other media markets, and two now playing in another part of Chicago—have called the South Side home. When the National League baseball team now known as the Chicago Cubs was founded in 1870, their first playing field was Dexter Park in the Back of the Yards neighborhood. From 1874 to 1877 they played at 23rd Street Grounds in what is now Chinatown, and from 1891 to 1893 they played some of their games at South Side Park, which was located in the same place that Comiskey Park was built for the Chicago White Sox in 1910. South Side Park was also home to the Chicago Pirates of the short-lived Player's League in 1890. Another baseball field, also known as South Side Park, stood nearby in 1884 and was home to the Chicago Unions of the equally short-lived Union League. The defunct Chicago American Giants baseball club of the Negro leagues played at Schorling's Park from 1911 to 1940, and then at Comiskey Park until 1952. In football, the Chicago Cardinals of the National Football League originally played at Normal Park but eventually moved to Comiskey Park in the late 1920s. The Cardinals left Chicago for St. Louis in 1960 and in 1988 for Phoenix, where they became the Arizona Cardinals. In hockey, the Chicago Cougars of the WHA played in the International Amphitheatre, located next to the Union Stock Yards, from 1972 until their demise in 1975.

Two NBA teams also briefly played on the South Side. The Chicago Packers played at the Amphitheatre in their inaugural season of . The following season, they changed their name to the Zephyrs and played at the Chicago Coliseum on the Near South Side. The team moved to Baltimore after that season and now plays in Washington, D.C., as the Washington Wizards. Chicago's current NBA team, the Bulls, played at the Amphitheatre during their first season before moving away from the South Side to Chicago Stadium and eventually to United Center.

The Chicago Sky of the WNBA moved to Wintrust Arena, which opened in 2017 at McCormick Place on the Near South Side, in 2018. The venue is also home to both the men's and women's basketball teams of DePaul University, with the men exclusively using Wintrust Arena and the women splitting home games between that venue and DePaul's North Side campus.

The defunct Chicago Sting soccer club played at Soldier Field and Comiskey Park from 1974 to 1984.

In NCAA Division I sports, the Chicago State Cougars represent the South Side, competing in the Western Athletic Conference. As noted above, DePaul began playing its home men's basketball games on the South Side in 2017, though most of its other sports (including part of the women's basketball home schedule) remain on or near its main North Side campus.

2016 Olympic bid

The South Side played a prominent role in Chicago's bid for the 2016 Summer Olympics. The Olympic Village was planned in the Douglas (#35) community area across Lake Shore Drive from Burnham Park. In addition, the Olympic Stadium was expected to be located in the Chicago Park District's Washington Park located in the Washington Park (#40) community area. Many Olympic events were planned for these community areas as well as other parts of the South Side.

References in popular culture

The South Side's gritty reputation often makes its way into popular culture.

 The opening lines of Jim Croce's song "Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" state that the South Side is "the baddest part of town".
 Richard Wright's novel Native Son () takes place on the South Side and focuses on the plight of African Americans in the ghetto, including the housing practices that created such slums.
 Upton Sinclair's novel The Jungle () was a revelation about the Union Stock Yards at the turn of the 20th century.
 A Raisin in the Sun () is a story of Lorraine Hansberry's youth growing up in the Woodlawn community area.
 Barbershop and parts of The Blues Brothers take place on the South Side. David Auburn's play Proof takes place exclusively in the Hyde Park neighborhood; the film adaptation expands the setting.
 The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a novel and film dealing with the integration of the CIA. The majority of the story takes place on the South Side of Chicago where the sole graduating black cadet is from.
 The Boondocks, a comic strip and animated series, stars the Freeman family, who have recently moved from the South Side of Chicago to an affluent suburb.
 James T. Farrell's novels, collectively called the Studs Lonigan Trilogy, are set in an Irish neighborhood on the South Side.
 Iceberg Slim, the author of Pimp, was raised on the South Side of Chicago, which is the setting of most of his stories. He sold over six million books, which were translated, further disseminating his depiction of life of the South Side.
 Chicago's South Side is the setting for the Showtime series Shameless and the Chicago Fire, Chicago Med and Chicago PD TV series produced by Dick Wolf.
 The South Side is seen in Netflix's Sense8 series, in the scenes of Will.
 Kanye West was raised in Chicago's South Side and frequently mentions it in his music. His lyrical references are heard in the song "All Falls Down" where he can be heard saying "South Side, South Side, we gon' set this party off right". Other examples include "All Day" ("South, South, South Side") and "Feedback" (You borrow our motto, I'm a Chicago south sider).
 In the film Mean Girls, which takes place in Evanston, Illinois, Mr. Duvall responds to a school-wide fight with, "Oh hell no, I did not leave the South Side for this!"
 The TV series South Side was co-created and written by Bashir Salahuddin, who was born and raised on the South Side.
 Chief Keef was raised on the South Side of Chicago, in the Parkway Garden Homes. He references the South Side in his music, such as the song "South Side". He references the South Side in the song "Almighty Gnar", with Lil Gnar.

See also

Notes

References and further reading
 Bachin, Robin F. Building the South Side: Urban space and civic culture in Chicago, 1890-1919 (University of Chicago Press, 2020).
 Pacyga, Dominic A. Polish immigrants and industrial Chicago: Workers on the south side, 1880-1922 (University of Chicago Press, 2003).

 Rotella, Carlo. The World Is Always Coming to an End: Pulling Together and Apart in a Chicago Neighborhood (2020)  excerpt
 Borrelli, Christopher. "A writer comes home to ever-changing South Shore to find the middle class disappearing" Chicago Tribune May 9, 2019
 Rodkin, Dennis. "Why does South Shore resist gentrification? Carlo Rotella is a Boston-based author of a new book that explores race, class and history in the lakefront Chicago neighborhood where he grew up." Crain's Chicago Business June 26, 2019
 Small, Mario Luis. "Is there such a thing as 'The Ghetto'? The perils of assuming that the South Side of Chicago represents poor black neighborhoods." City 11.3 (2007): 413–421.

External links

Geography of Chicago
Neighborhoods in Chicago

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I need advices from experienced users of SX-70 on how to shoot with SX-70 and Polaroid Originals SX-70 160 ASA film.
I read everything in internet including all manuals old one and new one made by Polaroid Originals.
- the focus is great feature, but what happens if I don't want to put the focus on some particular place.I mean, when I shoot with OneStep+ I don't set the focus and all the picture is nice.
- regarding the exposure, in order to compensate the difference between old 100 ASA film and the new 160 ASA film, P.Originals recommend in bright day to set 1/3 toward dark. It's hard to judge wether is bright day or regular day. In MINT website they recommend for regular day to set the exposure in the middle.
Dernière édition par polaroidfan le lun. 15 octobre 2018 / 19:39 pm, édité 1 fois.
On OneStep+ the lens has two positions: close and far. With SX70 you do need to set the focus, it is not the same kind of lens.
Concerning the film ISO compensation, it has no importance: you can choose 1/3 or 1/2 as you want, the difference is 1/6 of EV (exposure value), and you probably won't notice it (EV difference is too small to be perceived when looking at photos).
Hi, thank you for your answer.I do notice the difference in some pictures.The sharpness and the colours of the SX-70 film look different.


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Le genre Pseudochelidon est formé de deux espèces d'oiseaux appelés pseudolangrayens et proches parents des hirondelles. Il constitue une sous-famille particulière, celle des Pseudochelidoninae, au sein de la famille des Hirundinidae. Les deux espèces le composant sont le Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique (Pseudochelidon eurystomina), trouvé en République du Congo et au Gabon, et le Pseudolangrayen d'Asie (Pseudochelidon sirintarae), connu seulement sur un site en Thaïlande.

Ce sont des Hirundinidae de taille moyenne au plumage principalement noir, qui ont un vol léger et qui se nourrissent d'insectes capturés en vol. Ces oiseaux semblent être plus terrestres que les autres genres d'hirondelles, car on les observe plus souvent au sol que perchés, et l'espèce asiatique pourrait être de mœurs crépusculaires. L'espèce africaine creuse des trous pour faire son nid dans les bancs de sable des rivières, tandis que les sites de reproduction et les habitudes de l'espèce asiatique ne sont pas connus.

Lorsque le Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique a été découvert au , Gustav Hartlaub le rapproche des rolles, et il est plus tard placé soit dans sa propre famille, ou avec les langrayens. L'étude de son anatomie a ensuite révélé que l'espèce était plus proche des hirondelles, mais qu'elle possédait un certain nombre de traits distinctifs, comme ses pattes robustes et son gros bec, ce qui lui a valu d'être placée dans une sous-famille distincte. Les deux pseudolangrayens sont généralement considérés comme appartenant à un seul genre, Pseudochelidon, en raison de leurs nombreuses similitudes structurelles. Cependant, Richard Kendall Brooke a proposé de placer le Pseudolangrayen d'Asie dans un genre monotypique propre, Eurochelidon.

L'espèce africaine a une aire de répartition restreinte, mais semble être localement trouvée en grand nombre, bien que son véritable statut n'ait pas été entièrement déterminé. L'espèce asiatique a été découverte en 1969 et n'est connue que de spécimens et d'observations anecdotiques ; aucun ornithologue moderne n'a vu l'espèce à l'état sauvage, et ses zones de reproduction sont inconnues. L'espèce a peut-être disparu, mais une possible observation a été signalée en 2004.

Description

Les deux espèces sont de taille moyenne, mesurant entre 14 et  de long. Le plumage est principalement noir, et les oiseaux sont peu susceptibles d'être confondus avec une quelconque autre espèce d'hirundinidé dans leurs aires de répartition respectives. Les adultes des deux espèces ont de grandes têtes bleu satiné, des reflets verts sur le plumage du corps, et des ailes brunes. Aucun dimorphisme sexuel n'existe dans le plumage ; mâles et femelles sont similaires. Le Pseudolangrayen d'Asie a des rectrices externes allongées, un croupion blanchâtre, un œil et un cercle oculaire blancs, un bec jaune et présente un long filet sur chacune des deux bordures de sa queue. L'espèce africaine est pourvue d'un cercle oculaire et d'un bec rouges, mais n'a ni croupion blanc, ni filet sur la queue. Les juvéniles des deux espèces sont semblables aux adultes mais avec des têtes brunes, et les jeunes Pseudolangrayens d'Asie ne possèdent pas les longs filets de la queue des adultes.

Écologie et comportement

Chant et locomotion
Le Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique possède un cri court en tchi tchi, rendant un tchir-tchir-tchir quand il se déplace en groupe. Il est très bruyant au cours de sa migration, émettant des cris discordants semblables à ceux des mouettes. Aucun cri n'a encore été décrit pour le Pseudolangrayen d'Asie.

Le vol du Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique est puissant et rapide, entrecoupé de glissades ; l'espèce asiatique est décrite comme gracieuse et dynamique en vol. Le Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique ne se perche que rarement sur les zones de reproduction mais marche plutôt au sol. Les oiseaux d'Asie semblent également réticents à utiliser des perchoirs. Ce comportement, associé à la forme inhabituelle de l'extrémité de la queue et à la boue trouvée sur les doigts de l'un des premiers spécimens capturés, permet d'envisager qu'il puisse être relativement terrestre. Les oiseaux africains se perchent cependant régulièrement sur les cimes des arbres, sur les fils ou les toits dans leurs quartiers d'hiver.

Alimentation

Le Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique se nourrit en groupe, au-dessus des rivières et des forêts, souvent loin de l'eau. Il consomme des insectes en vol, et attrape principalement des fourmis volantes. Le Pseudolangrayen d'Asie se nourrit d'insectes, dont des coléoptères. Compte tenu de sa taille et de la longueur inhabituelle de son bec, il pourrait être capable de prendre de plus gros insectes que les autres espèces d'hirondelles. Pamela C. Rasmussen a suggéré que, compte tenu de ses yeux inhabituellement grands, l'espèce asiatique pourrait avoir des mœurs nocturnes ou au moins crépusculaires, facteur qui pourrait la rendre très difficile à observer et expliquer en partie pourquoi elle est restée si longtemps inconnue ; même si les premiers spécimens ont été capturés perchés durant la nuit dans des roselières, il est possible qu'ils n'aient en fait pas été pris au nid. Il est possible également que cette espèce soit crépusculaire, ou encore qu'elle puisse être active de jour comme de nuit selon la saison ou les circonstances.

Reproduction
Le comportement reproducteur n'est connu que pour le Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique. Il niche en colonies importantes comptant jusqu'à , de décembre à avril quand les niveaux d'eau sont bas. Chaque couple creuse un tunnel d'un à deux mètres de long dans les bancs de sable qui bordent les cours d'eau. La chambre au bout du tunnel est garnie de quelques brindilles et de feuilles qui font office de nid, sur lesquelles la femelle pond deux à quatre œufs blancs, sans taches. La durée d'incubation et l'âge de l'envol des jeunes ne sont pas connus, mais on pense que les deux parents s'occupent des oisillons. Le Pseudolangrayen d'Asie pourrait avoir des comportements de reproduction similaires, mais la morphologie des pattes et des doigts semble peu adaptée au creusement.

Habitat et répartition

Les deux membres de la sous-famille ont des aires de répartition complètement séparées géographiquement. Le Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique se reproduit le long du fleuve Congo et de son affluent l'Oubangui en République démocratique du Congo. Il est migrateur, hivernant dans la région de savane côtière dans le sud du Gabon et de la République du Congo. On a trouvé aussi des oiseaux nichant en grand nombre dans les prairies herbeuses à l'est de Gamba. Le Pseudolangrayen d'Asie n'est connu que par son site d'hivernage, au bord du Bueng Boraphet, en Thaïlande, où il a été observé entre les mois de novembre et février. Il pourrait être migrateur, mais son aire de nidification, son type de nid et le lieu de son implantation sont inconnus, bien que les vallées fluviales du nord de la Thaïlande ou du sud-ouest de la Chine soient susceptibles de l'abriter, comme pourraient l'être le Cambodge et la Birmanie. Des doutes subsistent cependant quant à savoir si l'oiseau est réellement migrateur.

L'habitat des zones de reproduction du Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique se compose de rivières boisées, comptant des îles pourvues de bancs de sable dans lesquels l'oiseau creuse son terrier. L'habitat de reproduction de l'espèce asiatique est inconnu, mais s'il ressemble à celui de son homologue africain, il pourrait également nicher dans les vallées boisées des grands fleuves ; ceux-ci peuvent fournir des bancs de sable et des îles pour la nidification, et des bois dans lesquels les oiseaux peuvent attraper des insectes. En dehors de la saison de reproduction, le Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique utilise des roselières ou les ripisylves comme dortoir. D'après le seul site d'hivernage connu du Pseudolangrayen d'Asie, ce dernier est supposé rester à proximité de l'eau douce pour se nourrir, utilisant les roselières comme dortoir pour la nuit.

Taxinomie et systématique

Gustav Hartlaub décrit le Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique au , d'après un spécimen gabonais, sous le nom de P. eurystomina). Il le pense intermédiaire aux hirondelles (Hirundinidae) et aux rolles et rolliers (Coraciidae), et le rapproche de ces derniers. Plus tard l'espèce est placée dans sa propre famille ou avec les langrayens (Artamidae). L'étude de l'anatomie de l'espèce par Percy Lowe en 1938 révèle qu'elle est plus proche des hirondelles, mais suffisamment différente pour être placée dans une sous-famille distincte, celle des Pseudochelidoninae. Le nom du genre Pseudochelidon vient du préfixe grec  (pseudo) pour « faux » et de  (chelidôn) signifiant « hirondelle ».

Pendant de nombreuses années, le Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique reste le seul membre de son genre et de sa sous-famille jusqu'à la découverte du Pseudolangrayen d'Asie (P. sirintarae), par l'ornithologue thaï Kitti Thonglongya en 1968. Bien que certains suivent une proposition de Richard Kendall Brooke et placent cette espèce dans un genre distinct, Eurochelidon, en raison de ses différences significatives par rapport à l'espèce africaine, il reste un membre de la même sous-famille. Les études génétiques ont confirmé que les deux pseudolangrayens forment un clade distinct des hirondelles typiques de la sous-famille des Hirundininae.

Les deux pseudolangrayens sont en quelque sorte intermédiaires entre les hirondelles typiques et les autres passereaux. L'importance de leurs différences avec les autres hirondelles et la séparation géographique étendue des deux espèces de pseudolangrayens suggèrent qu'ils sont des populations reliques d'un groupe d'espèces ayant divergé de la lignée principale des hirondelles au début de l'histoire évolutive de ce groupe, et ils pourraient être les plus « primitifs » des Hirunidinidae. À l'instar d'autres espèces ayant divergé tôt parmi les autres hirondelles, ils nichent dans des terriers, quand d'autres utilisent des trous ou construisent leur propre nid en boue.

Selon le Congrès ornithologique international et Alan P. Peterson, les deux espèces sont monotypiques :
 Pseudochelidon eurystomina Hartlaub, 1861 – Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique ;
 Pseudochelidon sirintarae Thonglongya, 1968 – Pseudolangrayen d'Asie.

Menaces et conservation
Découvert en 1968, le Pseudolangrayen d'Asie a été observé à nouveau en Thaïlande en 1972, 1977 et 1980. Une observation non confirmée dans ce même pays est signalée en 1986 et une autre observation incertaine au Cambodge en 2004. L'Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature (UICN) le classe comme en danger critique d'extinction (CR), soit la catégorie de risque la plus élevée pour les espèces sauvages et qui regroupe celles dont les effectifs ont diminué ou diminueront de 80 % en trois générations. L'UICN ne considère pas qu'une espèce soit disparue jusqu'à ce que de vastes recherches soient menées, mais le Pseudolangrayen d'Asie pourrait bien ne plus exister à l'état sauvage.

Malgré la protection juridique dont le Pseudolangrayen d'Asie bénéficie en vertu de son classement en annexe I (la catégorie la plus élevée) de la Convention sur le commerce international des espèces de faune et de flore sauvages menacées d'extinction (CITES), il a été capturé par les autochtones, comme d'autres hirondelles, pour la vente en tant que nourriture ou pour les lâchers d'oiseaux des fêtes bouddhistes. Ainsi, après sa découverte par les ornithologues, des trappeurs en auraient capturé près de 120 pour les vendre au directeur de la station de pêche de Nakhon Sawan qui n'a pas su les garder vivantes en captivité. La petite population a donc pu devenir non viable.

Les populations d'hirondelles du Bueng Boraphet ont connu des déclins énormes, entre les centaines de milliers estimées autour de l'année 1970 et les  maximum comptées dans l'hiver 1980-1981. Cependant il n'est pas certain que cela corresponde à une baisse réelle des effectifs ou à un changement de site. Parmi les autres causes possibles du déclin de l'espèce figurent la perturbation des bancs de sable des bords des cours d'eau, la construction de barrages qui inondent les zones en amont et modifient l'hydrologie en aval, la déforestation et la transformation croissante de son habitat en terrains agricoles. Très peu d'hirondelles trouvent maintenant refuge dans les roselières du Bueng Boraphet, préférant les plantations de canne à sucre et, malgré les recherches, le Pseudolangrayen d'Asie n'a pas été repéré parmi les autres grands rassemblements d'hirondelles à proximité.

La taille de la population totale du Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique est inconnue. Dans les années 1980, il semblait être localement commun, et était observé en grand nombre en migration au Gabon. Il est cependant particulièrement mal connu en République démocratique du Congo, et on ne sait pas s'il y a une relation entre les oiseaux nicheurs dans ce pays et ceux des zones côtières du Gabon et du Congo. Un groupe de  oiseaux a été vu en 1997, et une volée mixte avec des Guêpiers gris-rose (Merops malimbicus) a été estimée à  individus. Plusieurs centaines d'oiseaux ont également été observées en 1996 dans le parc national de Conkouati-Douli, en république du Congo. Néanmoins, en raison de l'absence d'informations détaillées, l'espèce est classée par l'Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature comme en « données insuffisantes » (DD).

Annexes

Références taxinomiques

Liens externes

Articles connexes
 Pseudolangrayen d'Afrique | Pseudolangrayen d'Asie

Bibliographie

Notes et références

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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on transparency, developers, multi-cloud
In this Q&A, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels dishes on transparency, technology roadmaps, developers, multi-cloud and more.
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Amazon CTO Werner Vogels is known for his work with Amazon Web Services, but he actually leads technology innovation across the entire company. In a keynote talk at this week's AWS Summit event in New York City, he outlined new product directions and his philosophy for the future of cloud computing.
Vogels sat down with TechTarget to discuss a wide range of issues, from transparency into future development of AWS services to customers' multi-cloud plans.
In December 2018, AWS posted a public roadmap for its container strategy on GitHub. This was seen as an unusual, maybe unprecedented move. Talk about transparency in terms of a philosophy -- will we see more of this kind of thing out of AWS?
Werner Vogels: As always, with respect to customer interaction, we try to experiment. The whole thing with roadmaps is that once you produce it, you have to stick with it. And historically, we've always tried to be more secretive. We've always tried to keep the roadmap with customers under NDA. Mostly so we could have the opportunity to change our minds.
Because once you promise customers you're going to deliver X, Y and Z in September, you have to deliver X, Y and Z in September for them.
And so I think given the tremendous interest of developers in containers, this seems like a really great space to start with giving the community access to a roadmap, knowing what's coming. And I think definitely given our close cooperation with that group we need this sort of ecosystem. I think it was really important to show what our plans are there.
One critique of AWS is that CloudFormation lags too much with regard to support for new AWS features. In response, AWS pledged to provide more transparency around CloudFormation, including a roadmap. What's going on from your perspective with CloudFormation?
Werner Vogels, vice president and CTO of Amazon
Vogels: Often we have a number of innovations scheduled for CloudFormation, but as you can see we put a lot of effort into the Cloud Development Kit, or CDK. One thing we've gotten from developers is that they prefer to write code instead of these large, declarative JSON and XML files. I showed it onstage this morning, with the demo that we did. We've put most of our effort in actually going the CDK route more than sort of extending CloudFormation.
Most customers have asked for new features in CloudFormation to get sort of parity with what Terraform is doing. I have great respect for HashiCorp and the speed at which they're innovating. They're a great partner. And as such, we're working with CloudFormation to take it in the direction that customers are asking for.
I think overall, we're on a good path, the right path. But I love the fact that there is a long list of requests for CloudFormation. It means that customers are passionate about it and want us to do more.
There is a sense these days that enterprises should look to be multi-cloud, not tied to a single provider, for reasons such as cost, vendor management and richer opportunities for innovation. One of your competitors, Google, hopes to be a middleman player with its Anthos multi-cloud deployment platform. What is your stance on multi-cloud, and can we see something like Anthos coming out of AWS someday?
Vogels: It depends a bit on how you define multi-cloud. If you think about if you have this one application that you want to run on any of the providers, you pretty quickly go to a lowest common denominator, which is to use a cloud as a data center. You just use instances as a service. Now you get some elasticity, you get some cost savings out of it, maybe some more reliability, but you get none of the other benefits. You can't use any of the security tools that Amazon is giving you. Plus, you need to have your workforce, your development force able to be proficient in each and every one of these clouds that you're using, which seems like a waste.
Given the tremendous interest of developers in containers, this seems like a really great space to start with giving the community access to a roadmap, knowing what's coming.
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The few companies that I've seen being slightly successful with having a multi-cloud approach are ones that say, oh this is one particular thing that this particular provider is unique in and I really want to make use of that. Well, sometimes that's as some sort of a vertical, or it might be in a particular location.
The other thing that we're working with most of our enterprise customers is, what is an exit strategy? What do I need to do, if one moment I decide that I would like to move over to another provider? That for any large enterprise is just good due diligence. If you start using a [SaaS application], you want to know about what do we need to do to get my data out of there, if I want to move let's say from Salesforce to Workday.
It's the same for most large enterprises. They want to know how much work is it actually for me to actually move if I decide to go from cloud provider A to cloud provider B, or maybe bring it back on premises.
That's something that we've been working on with most of our large customers, because that's just good due diligence.
You talked about your strategy for developers today [in the AWS Summit keynote]. Are you satisfied with where AWS is with regard to developer experience?
Vogels: I'm never satisfied. I think this is mostly focused on serverless. Anything serverless is still so much in flux. We see customers building more and more complex and larger applications using only serverless components, and we're learning from that. What are the kinds of things that customers want?
For example, when we launched [Lambda] Layers, that was purely from feedback from customers saying, 'Hey you know, we have this whole set of basic components that we are always using for each of our applications, but it doesn't allow us to actually easily integrate them.' So we built Layers for customers.
We continue to look at how we can do these things. The same goes for building Custom Runtimes. There [are] only so many languages you can do yourself, but if there's someone else that wants to do Haskell or Caml, or any let's say, less popular language, we should be able to enable them. And so we built Custom Runtimes.
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I Heart Design. No, really I do. I design every day, spend my spare time obsessing about typography, and could never imagine doing anything else. Design holds a near and dear spot in my heart. But this isn't about me. It's about a book. I Heart Design by Steven Heller is a collection of, as it boldly proclaims on the cover, "80 remarkable graphic designs". Each piece of graphic design was selected by a different person, at the request of the author, as something that was unique and influential in their own lives and careers.
The pieces of design were selected by a range of different people and different professions including various designers, illustrators and critics. All of the names are notable, some random excerpts include James Victore, Kelly William Purcell, Rudy Vanderlans, Ivan Chermayeff, George Tscherny, Gail Anderson, Jessica Helfand, and a few selected by Steven Heller himself. Each selected work includes the thoughts of the person whom selected it and, as would be expected with such a range of personalities, the descriptions vary in length from a few paragraphs to a few pages.
The different writing styles of each author and the different lengths of the descriptions make for a nice change in pace as you turn the pages of the book. Some include personal stories about the influence of the piece on the person writing about it while others include details about the specific piece and the designer. The following excerpt is from Reto Caduff's selection, a poster for Pontresina, designed by Herbert Matter.
With this work, Matter secured himself a place in the graphic design pantheon early on. A few years later, he interviewed with Alexey Brodovitch for a job at Harper's Bazaar in New York. His Pontresina poster hung on the wall behind Brodovitch's desk.
I enjoyed the personality that each person brought to the book and the intimacy of some of their stories about the first time they saw the piece they selected and how it affected them. Several designers selected works of their own which I found quite self-indulgent and narcissistic, but design is a very vain profession and it would be ignorant to think otherwise. All of the content was edited by Steven Heller and the book was designed by Rick Landers.
The design of the book is well considered. While the content allows for a nice inconsistent pacing between the many different pieces the longer winded articles are spaced nicely between some of the shorter ones so that the pages keep turning. The page layouts take the same key and while they often share similar structures there is a nice inconsistency to the visual flow that keeps the reader interested. My only complaint with the design was that I did not enjoy the justification of every block of text in the book.
Included with each selection is a small piece of information about the person selecting it, which is always nice for the inquisitive reader. While many of the selected designs were familiar faces and old favorites there were quite a few that were new to me and I would encourage all designers to pick up a copy of the book as it will likely expose you to some influential pieces of design that you have never seen before.
I Heart Design is published by Rockport and you can purchase it from Amazon (US|CA|UK|DE).
About the Reviewer Dominic Flask is a designer by nature, a teacher by application and a thoughtful companion by friendship. You can find his work here, his thoughts here, and his passion on Design is History.


The United States is undergoing a transformation of its immigration policy that could prevent thousands of incoming refugees from gaining entry into the country. As legislative action continues to target refugees at the federal level, the need for state refugee integration and resettlement programs becomes increasingly salient.
It was relevant then that this year's Ford+SPPG conference—the annual case competition organized by the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy (Ford) and the School of Public Policy and Governance (SPPG)—focused on providing state-centered solutions to facilitate the economic empowerment and social integration of refugees in Michigan. Held in Ann Arbor, the two-day conference highlighted the importance of human rights in immigration policy, while providing a unique backdrop to the challenges facing refugees in America.
Unlike the majority of American states, Michigan has prioritized welcoming immigrants and refugees, with the hope of utilizing skilled immigrants to help grow Michigan's economy. This is reflected by current Governor Rick Snyder's efforts to sponsor bills with pro-immigrant language and launch programs aimed at leveraging the talents of immigrants and refugees.
This approach is understandable given Michigan's unique demographic makeup. As one of the top five states in terms of the total number of refugees accepted, Michigan is home to over 600,000 foreign born residents, which amounts to more than six per cent of the state's population. The number of people in Michigan who identified as having Arabic-speaking ancestry on U.S. census surveys also grew by more than 47 per cent between 2000 and 2013.
However, refugees continue to face a myriad of economic and social challenges upon arriving in the US. Initial struggles of refugees include language barriers, underemployment, discrimination, unfamiliarity with or inadequacy of transportation, and limited understanding of labour market processes and requirements. For instance, research reveals that level of English proficiency is still one of the main reasons preventing highly-skilled immigrants from receiving offers of employment.
It was in this context that eight teams comprised of both Ford and SPPG students aimed to provide solutions that would target these key issues.
Following the keynote panel discussing the recent changes in US immigration policy and refugee resettlement, students broke off into teams of five to form recommended strategies that would address the underlying challenges facing refugee success in Michigan.
With only four hours to prepare their presentations, the results were an impressive array of policy solutions that targeted specific aspects of language acquisition, employment, educational attainment, and health of refugees. Although all teams were applauded for their presentation and teamwork skills, the creativity of policy solutions became the deciding factor for determining the best recommended strategy.
Focusing on revitalizing employment opportunities, the winning team comprised of Samantha Chu and Michelle Rubin from Ford, and Blake Lee-Whiting, Priscilla Mak and Ali Nasser Virji from SPPG, utilized a three-pronged approach that would be spearheaded and coordinated by the Michigan Office for New Americans (MONA).
Their strategy began by creating pathways for refugees to start small businesses by providing financing opportunities through existing refugee development organizations. This would be complemented by sponsored mentorship programs that would connect high-skilled underemployed refugees to jobs in high growth sectors through specialized internship programs. The final part of their strategy concentrated on helping refugees build on their skills by connecting them to community organizations, consequently supporting the local economy.
Anna Kanduth, one of the co-chairs of the conference, believes the competition ended on a high note with both sides discovering new methods for improving refugee outcomes.
"When we chose this theme back in November, we had no idea just how relevant the topic of immigration integration and mobility in a populist era would be," she notes.
Kelly Rahardja is a Master of Public Policy candidate at the School of Public Policy and Governance, and a Junior Fellow at Massey College. She holds an Honours Bachelor of Arts with a Specialization in International Relations and American Studies from the University of Toronto. She has several years of experience editing publications, and was previously a Program Editor at the NATO Association of Canada. An avid traveler, her research interests include national security, intergovernmental relations, and the intricacies of policy implementation.


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"Squeeze Toy is a song by Canadian music production team the Boomtang Boys featuring vocals from Canadian Eurodance singer Kim Esty. Written by group members Rob DeBoer, Tony Grace, and Paul Grace, it was released in March 1999 as the second single from their first studio album, Greatest Hits Volume One. The song topped the Canadian Singles Chart for four weeks and became a top-10 radio hit, peaking at number 10 on Canada's RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart.  A French-language version of the song titled "Mon joujou" () was also recorded, featuring vocals from Diane DiVito.

Release
"Squeeze Toy" was released as a maxi-CD single in Canada on March 30, 1999. The CD includes additional mixes of "Squeeze Toy", including the French version, "Mon joujou", plus remixes of the Boomtang Boys' debut single, "Popcorn", and a multimedia element. On April 17, 1999, the single debuted at number one on the Canadian Singles Chart, where it stayed for four weeks and charted for a total of 10 weeks. The song was also popular on Canadian radio, reaching number 10 on the RPM 100 Hit Tracks chart, and in dance clubs, peaking at number five on RPMs Dance chart. The magazine ranked the song as the 77th-most-successful single of 1999 and the 46th-most-successful dance track. It has sold 20,000 copies in Canada according to Nielsen SoundScan. "Squeeze Toy" was also released commercially in Europe and Australasia, while in the United States, it was sent to contemporary hit radio on September 14, 1999.

Critical reception
Virgin Records America co-president Ray Cooper called the track "so damn catchy" while Mike Plen, senior vice president of the label's promotion, said that the song is a "fun dance record" despite the band's lack of pop music credibility. Billboard magazine reviewed the song on their September 11, 1999, issue, referring to the track as an "ultra-cutesy dance ditty" and commenting on its double entendre, saying that it is "naughty in the most genial of ways".

Music video
The music video for "Squeeze Toy" was added to the playlist of Canadian music channel MuchMusic on the week ending March 20, 1999, and to the playlist of American network The Box on the week ending August 15, 1999. The video shows live actors plus animated caricatures of the Boomtang Boys in a bedroom, a bathroom, a classroom, and a dance club. At the 1999 MuchMusic Video Awards, held on September 23, the clip won the award for Best Dance Video.

Track listings
Canadian, European, and Australasian maxi-CD single
 "Squeeze Toy" (featuring Kim Esty) – 3:38
 "Popcorn" (Like Butta mix) – 3:21
 "Squeeze Toy" (Free Style mix) – 4:06
 "Popcorn" (Microwave mix) – 3:39
 "Mon joujou" (featuring Diane DiVito) – 3:38
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European CD single ("Mon joujou")
 "Mon joujou" (Latin mix featuring Diane DiVito) – 3:21
 "Squeeze Toy" (Latin mix featuring Kim Esty) – 3:21

Credits and personnel
Credits are lifted from the Canadian maxi-CD single and Greatest Hits Volume One liner notes.

Studio
 Mastered at The Other Studio (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)

Personnel
 The Boomtang Boys – production, mixing
 Rob DeBoer – writing
 Tony Grace – writing
 Paul Grace – writing
 Kim Esty – vocals
 Bro Nick – mastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Year-end charts

Sales

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Release history

References

1999 singles
1999 songs
Canadian dance songs
Canadian pop songs
Canadian Singles Chart number-one singles
French-language songs
Virgin Records singles