Marvel Studios head honcho Kevin Feige knows what to say when talking the future of the MCU, something he proves once again in the most recent Avengers: Infinity War issue of Entertainment Weekly.
Feige was asked a bit about everything during the spotlight feature, because let's be honest, there's HOW MANY films still on the slate for this phase of the universe alone? Needless to say, it's a lot of ground to cover, so we're going to break up the piece into parts, because it'll make more sense that way.
In part 3, Kevin spoke a bit about what a Marvel "end" means, and how Avengers: Infinity War fits into that mold. Following up on that, Entertainment Weekly asked about a classic Marvel trope: "What If". As in, what if the Iron Man and Captain America films didn't end up meshing? What if the MCU never really came together?
Entertainment Weekly: You mentioned before that Marvel Studios was all-in at important junctures. What's the dark version of the Marvel Universe where you had to activate a backup plan for Avengers if Cap or Thor hadn't connected?
Kevin Feige: Well, not on Avengers necessarily. As we develop stories and develop scripts, you have to deal with the realities of deal making, and the realities of schedules, and the realities of budgets. We always have A, and B, and C plans. That doesn't mean the B or C plan wouldn't have worked. It just meant it would have been different.
EW: Had those movies failed, would Avengers have become basically Iron Man 3?
Feige: The real answer is we were all-in. God forbid those films had [flopped] … I think the marketing probably would have been different [for Avengers] and maybe the way the film was cut together or recut with additional scenes would have been different, but it was all-in on that one.
EW: What feels like the big gamble now?
Fiege: Every time you do a film that doesn't have a part two behind it or wasn't a sequel. After Iron Man, and certainly after Captain America and Thor, and certainly after The Avengers, Marvel Studios could have made, theoretically, a nice game plan only making sequels to those movies. A lot of studios would love to have four franchises that they can keep doing sequels to. We specifically didn't want to do that, because we wanted to keep bringing new characters to the forefront, because there's an embarrassment of riches in the comic books.
EW: Which of those new films felt like risks, felt uncertain?
Feige: You look at Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, Ant-Man … You look at Black Panther or Captain Marvel, that we have just started filming. One could consider those risks, whenever you're doing something new and it's not proven. Doing a third version of Spider-Man. Those are all things that have a certain amount of risk associated with them, but early on we decided we didn't want to be just the Iron Man studio or just the Avengers studio. We want to be the Marvel Studio.
EW: Years back, you listed all of those new movies as possible projects you wanted to make. Now most of them have happened. So, what's on your wish list now?
Feige: We're not ready to talk about what those are, but like the ones we've made in the first three phases, they're ones that are either just great concepts for a film, great characters with great supporting characters, like Panther. New locations and lands that have cultural significance all their own, and continuing to tell stories that represent the world as it is, that represent people who perhaps haven't seen themselves portrayed in this light in the past. We want to continue to do that.
Wow, now I'm even more curious as to what the things are that Kevin isn't ready to talk about. What do you think it was that he won't name?
Pick up your copy of Entertainment Weekly's Avengers: Infinity War issue out now.
Kevin Feige Says Marvel Makes Movies "We Believe In", Russo Brothers Call It "Grand Narrative Experiment"


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Federal Government deliberately using Soot to depopulate Rivers State— Governor Wike
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Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike has made a disquieting declaration that the APC-led Federal Government deliberately plans to eliminate a large percentage of the state's population by her failure to resolve the menance of the soot condensation of the atmosphere in major parts of the state.
The governor announced that the Attorney General of Rivers State has been directed to sue the federal government and International oil companies operating in the state over the soot.
Addressing a delegation of the United Nations at the Government House Port Harcourt on Wednesday, Governor Wike called on the United Nations to prevail on the federal government to act on the soot.
The governor said: "Thank God that the United Nations has come in view of the issues we have raised. We thank the United Nations for their concern on the Rivers Environment as it relates to the soot. "If we must move on, we must situate the cause of the soot and the fact that the Federal Government has decided to make sure that a greater percentage of the state dies.
"The Federal Government wants to eliminate a greater percentage of the state. The problem of soot is not caused by the Rivers State Government. It is caused by Federal Agencies. " The governor said that the Federal Government and her agencies are practically damaging the environment by their illegal activities.
"The Rivers State Government do not own companies that refine crude. We have made representations to the Federal Government and her agencies on the issue of soot, to no avail . "We have called on the security agencies to find more refined ways of destroying the illegal refineries. We have informed the National Council of Environment, the military and all Federal Regulatory Agencies, but they are not interested in intervening ", Governor Wike said.
The governor said that the refusal of the Federal Government to act on all data supplied on the soot is a deliberate ploy to make Rivers people suffer health hazards which will lead to untimely deaths. "We want the international community to come to our aid and pressure the Federal Government not to politicise environmental issues. We are ready to work with the international community to address this challenge. "All the Federal Government is doing is to chase shadows , organising people to protest. Until they stop politicising very serious issues and focus on governance, we will head nowhere", he said.
He reiterated that the soot is non discriminatory as it affects everyone irrespective of status and political affiliation. He said that the Rivers State Government has taken all necessary steps, pointing out that the remaining steps rest with the Federal Government.
Wike said: "The federal government is using the soot as a political strategy, not knowing that it will fail woefully. "I have directed the Honourable Attorney General to brief an environmental lawyer to sue the Federal Government and the international oil companies over the issue of soot".
He wondered why the Federal Government would withdraw $1billion for security challenge and not withdraw same amount for environmental challenge in the Niger Delta. He said the $1 billion withdrawn by the Federal Government is mainly for election purposes and not for security.
Leader of the United Nations Delegation to Rivers State, Charles Ekong appreciated the steps already taken by the Rivers State Government . He said that the mission of the delegation is investigative in nature, so as to determine a lasting solution to the soot challenge in the state.
In his remarks, Assistant Director, Federal Ministry of Health, Mr Adebayo Durojaiye said that the United Nations Delegation met with officials of the Rivers State Government on the soot challenge.
He said: "We have met with the Rivers State Commissioner of Environment and Commissioner of Health on the soot challenge. They have briefed us on the efforts of the Rivers State Government to address the soot and to
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Panel Reports—New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (2011)
Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." National Research Council. 2011. Panel Reports—New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/12982.
PANEL REPORTS—New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Science Frontiers Panels
Program Prioritization Panels
Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics
Board on Physics and Astronomy
Space Studies Board
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This study was supported by Contract NNX08AN97G between the National Academy of Sciences and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Contract AST-0743899 between the National Academy of Sciences and the National Science Foundation, and Contract DE-FG02-08ER41542 between the National Academy of Sciences and the U.S. Department of Energy. Support for this study was also provided by the Vesto Slipher Fund. Any opinions, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the organizations that provided support for the project.
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Panel on Cosmology and Fundamental Physics
DAVID N. SPERGEL,
Princeton University,
DAVID WEINBERG,
Ohio State University,
RACHEL BEAN,
NEIL CORNISH,
JONATHAN FENG,
ALEX V. FILIPPENKO,
WICK C. HAXTON,
MARC P. KAMIONKOWSKI,
LISA RANDALL,
EUN-SUK SEO,
DAVID TYTLER,
CLIFFORD M. WILL,
Washington University
Panel on the Galactic Neighborhood
MICHAEL J. SHULL,
University of Colorado,
JULIANNE DALCANTON,
University of Washington,
LEO BLITZ,
BRUCE T. DRAINE,
ROBERT FESEN,
Dartmouth University
KARL GEBHARDT,
JUNA KOLLMEIER,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington
CRYSTAL MARTIN,
JASON TUMLINSON,
DANIEL WANG,
DENNIS ZARITSKY,
STEPHEN E. ZEPF,
Panel on Galaxies Across Cosmic Time
C. MEGAN URRY,
Yale University,
MITCHELL C. BEGELMAN,
NETA A. BAHCALL,
ANDREW J. BAKER,
ROMEEL DAVÉ,
TIZIANA DI MATTEO,
HENRIC S.W. KRAWCZYNSKI,
JOSEPH MOHR,
Ludwig Maximilian University
RICHARD F. MUSHOTZKY,
CHRISTOPHER S. REYNOLDS,
ALICE SHAPLEY,
TOMMASO TREU,
JAQUELINE H. VAN GORKOM,
ERIC M. WILCOTS,
Panel on Planetary Systems and Star Formation
LEE W. HARTMANN,
DAN M. WATSON,
University of Rochester,
HECTOR ARCE,
CLAIRE CHANDLER,
National Radio Astronomy Observatory
DAVID CHARBONNEAU,
EUGENE CHIANG,
SUZAN EDWARDS,
ERIC HERBST,
DAVID C. JEWITT,
JAMES P. LLOYD,
EVE C. OSTRIKER,
DAVID J. STEVENSON,
JONATHAN C. TAN,
Panel on Stars and Stellar Evolution
ROGER A. CHEVALIER,
University of Virginia,
ROBERT P. KIRSHNER,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics,
DEEPTO CHAKRABARTY,
SUZANNE HAWLEY,
JEFFREY R. KUHN,
University of Hawaii
STANLEY OWOCKI,
MARC PINSONNEAULT,
ELIOT QUATAERT,
SCOTT RANSOM,
HENDRIK SCHATZ,
LEE ANNE WILLSON,
STANFORD E. WOOSLEY,
University of California, Santa Cruz
DONALD C. SHAPERO, Director,
Board on Physics and Astronomy (BPA)
MICHAEL H. MOLONEY,
Astro2010 Study Director and Director, Space Studies Board (SSB)
BRANT L. SPONBERG, Associate Director,
SSB (until December 2009)
ROBERT L. RIEMER, Senior Program Officer,
DAVID B. LANG, Program Officer,
CARMELA CHAMBERLAIN, Administrative Coordinator,
CATHERINE A. GRUBER, Editor,
CARYN J. KNUTSEN, Research Associate,
LaVITA COATES-FOGLE, Senior Program Assistant,
BPA (until October 2009)
BETH DOLAN, Financial Associate,
Panel on Electromagnetic Observations from Space
ALAN DRESSLER,
Observatories of the Carnegie Institution of Washington,
MICHAEL BAY,
Bay Engineering Innovations
ALAN P. BOSS,
Carnegie Institution of Washington
MARK DEVLIN,
MEGAN DONAHUE,
BRENNA FLAUGHER,
TOM GREENE,
NASA Ames Research Center
PURAGRA (RAJA) GUHATHAKURTA,
University of California Observatories/Lick Observatory
MICHAEL G. HAUSER,
HAROLD McALISTER,
PETER F. MICHELSON,
BEN R. OPPENHEIMER,
FRITS PAERELS,
GEORGE H. RIEKE,
Steward Observatory, University of Arizona
ADAM G. RIESS,
PAUL L. SCHECHTER,
TODD TRIPP,
Panel on Optical and Infrared Astronomy from the Ground
PATRICK S. OSMER,
MICHAEL SKRUTSKIE,
CHARLES BAILYN,
BETSY BARTON,
TODD A. BOROSON,
DANIEL EISENSTEIN,
ANDREA M. GHEZ,
J. TODD HOEKSEMA,
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
BRUCE MACINTOSH,
PIERO MADAU,
JOHN MONNIER,
I. NEILL REID,
CHARLES E. WOODWARD,
Panel on Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation
JACQUELINE N. HEWITT,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
ERIC G. ADELBERGER,
ANDREAS ALBRECHT,
ELENA APRILE,
JONATHAN ARONS,
BARRY C. BARISH,
JOAN CENTRELLA,
NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
DOUGLAS FINKBEINER,
KATHRYN FLANAGAN,
GABRIELA GONZALEZ,
JAMES B. HARTLE,
STEVEN M. KAHN,
N. JEREMY KASDIN,
TERESA MONTARULI,
ANGELA V. OLINTO,
RENE A. ONG,
HELEN R. QUINN,
Stanford National Accelerator Laboratory (retired)
Panel on Radio, Millimeter, and Submillimeter Astronomy from the Ground
NEAL J. EVANS II,
University of Texas,
JAMES M. MORAN,
Harvard University,
CRYSTAL BROGAN,
AARON S. EVANS,
SARAH GIBSON,
National Center for Atmospheric Research, High Altitude Observatory
JASON GLENN,
University of Colorado at Boulder
NICKOLAY Y. GNEDIN,
CORNELIA C. LANG,
MAURA McLAUGHLIN,
MIGUEL MORALES,
LYMAN A. PAGE, JR.,
JEAN L. TURNER,
DAVID J. WILNER,
MICHAEL H. MOLONEY, Astro2010 Study Director and Director,
Space Studies Board (SSB)
BRIAN DEWHURST, Program Officer,
ASEB (until July 2009)
JAMES LANCASTER, Program Officer,
ROGER D. BLANDFORD,
Stanford University,
MARTHA P. HAYNES,
Cornell University,
JOHN P. HUCHRA,1
MARCIA J. RIEKE,
University of Arizona,
LYNNE HILLENBRAND,
California Institute of Technology,
STEVEN J. BATTEL,
Battel Engineering
LARS BILDSTEN,
JOHN E. CARLSTROM,
DEBRA M. ELMEGREEN,
JOSHUA FRIEMAN,
FIONA A. HARRISON,
TIMOTHY M. HECKMAN,
ROBERT C. KENNICUTT, JR.,
JONATHAN I. LUNINE,
University of Rome, Tor Vergata
CLAIRE E. MAX,
DAN McCAMMON,
STEVEN M. RITZ,
JURI TOOMRE,
SCOTT D. TREMAINE,
MICHAEL S. TURNER,
NEIL deGRASSE TYSON,
Hayden Planetarium, American Museum of Natural History
PAUL A. VANDEN BOUT,
A. THOMAS YOUNG,
Lockheed Martin Corporation (retired)
BRANT L. SPONBERG, Senior Program Officer,
BPA (until December 2009)
BRIAN D. DEWHURST, Program Officer,
Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board (until July 2009)
JAMES C. LANCASTER, Program Officer,
This report is dedicated to John P. Huchra, who served as a vice chair for the Astro2010 decadal survey.
TERI THOROWGOOD, Administrative Coordinator,
BPA (from November 2009)
ADAM S. BURROWS,
PHILIP H. BUCKSBAUM,
RICCARDO BETTI,
PATRICK L. COLESTOCK,
Los Alamos National Laboratory (until June 30, 2010)
JAMES DRAKE,
JAMES EISENSTEIN,
PAUL A. FLEURY,
University of California, Los Angeles (until June 30, 2010)
PETER F. GREEN,
LAURA H. GREENE,
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
JOSEPH HEZIR,
EOP Group, Inc.
MARC A. KASTNER,
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Chair until June 30, 2010)
MARK B. KETCHEN,
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center
JOSEPH LYKKEN,
PIERRE MEYSTRE,
HOMER A. NEAL,
MONICA OLVERA de la CRUZ,
JOSE N. ONUCHIC,
CHARLES V. SHANK,
Janelia Farm, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (until June 30, 2010)
MICHAEL C.F. WIESCHER,
DONALD C. SHAPERO, Director
MICHAEL H. MOLONEY, Associate Director (until March 30, 2010)
CHARLES F. KENNEL,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California, San Diego,
Lockheed Martin Corporation (retired),
DANIEL N. BAKER,
University of Colorado, Boulder (until June 30, 2010)
CHARLES L. BENNETT,
Johns Hopkins University (until June 30, 2010)
YVONNE C. BRILL, Aerospace Consultant
ELIZABETH R. CANTWELL,
ANDREW B. CHRISTENSEN,
Dixie State College; Aerospace Corporation
JACK D. FELLOWS,
HEIDI B. HAMMEL,
Space Science Institute
ANTHONY C. JANETOS,
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
JOAN JOHNSON-FREESE,
KLAUS KEIL,
University of Hawaii (until June 30, 2010)
MOLLY K. MACAULEY,
Resources for the Future
BERRIEN MOORE III,
Climate Central (until June 30, 2010)
JOHN F. MUSTARD,
ROBERT T. PAPPALARDO,
Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
JAMES PAWELCZYK,
SOROOSH SOROOSHIAN,
JOAN VERNIKOS,
Thirdage LLC
JOSEPH F. VEVERKA,
Cornell University (until June 30, 2010)
WARREN M. WASHINGTON,
THOMAS H. ZURBUCHEN,
ELLEN G. ZWEIBEL,
University of Wisconsin (until June 30, 2010)
MICHAEL H. MOLONEY, Director (from April 2010)
RICHARD E. ROWBERG, Interim Director (from March 2009 through March 2010)
MARCIA S. SMITH, Director (through February 2009)
BRANT L. SPONBERG, Associate Director (until December 2009)
This volume contains the reports of the five Astro2010 Science Frontiers Panels (SFPs) and the four Astro2010 Program Prioritization Panels (PPPs). These panels were appointed by the National Research Council (NRC) to assist the Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics in surveying the field of space- and ground-based astronomy and astrophysics and identifying promising areas of research in the coming decade, taking into consideration both new and previously identified concepts. The tasks assigned to the SFPs and PPPs are outlined in Appendix A. This volume also reflects the work of six Infrastructure Study Groups (ISGs) whose members were appointed by the NRC's Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences to gather and analyze data on issues related to several broad topics. The results of the work of the three groups—the SFPs, PPPs, and ISGs—were advisory to the survey committee, whose task was to recommend priorities for the most important scientific and technical activities in astronomy and astrophysics for the decade 2010-2020.1 The survey committee's recommendations are presented in a separate volume, New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics (The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., 2010).
The survey was conducted in two overlapping phases. In the first phase, the five SFPs worked to identify science themes that define the research frontiers for the 2010-2020 decade in five areas: Cosmology and Fundamental Physics, the Galactic Neighborhood, Galaxies Across Cosmic Time, Planetary Systems and Star
In this context, "activities" include any project, telescope, facility, mission, or research program of sufficient scope to be identified separately in this report.
Formation, and Stars and Stellar Evolution. Drawing on the 324 white papers on science opportunities submitted to the NRC in response to an open call from the survey committee to the astronomy and astrophysics research community,2 as well as on briefings received from federal agencies that provide support for the field, the SFPs strove to identify the scientific drivers of the field and the most promising opportunities for progress in research in the next decade, taking into consideration those areas where the technical means and the theoretical foundations are in place for major steps forward. The SFPs were instructed to avoid advocacy for prioritization of specific new missions, telescopes, and other research activities. They also worked ahead of and therefore independent of the PPPs. As delineated in Chapters 1 through 5 of this volume, the input of each of the SFPs to the survey committee was organized by four science questions ripe for answering and general areas with unusual discovery potential.
In the second phase of the survey, the PPPs were charged to develop a ranked program of research activities in four programmatic areas: Electromagnetic Observations from Space; Optical and Infrared Astronomy from the Ground; Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation; and Radio, Millimeter, and Submillimeter Astronomy from the Ground. In addition to the draft science questions and discovery areas received from the SFP chairs at a joint meeting held in May 2009, the PPPs also reviewed the more than 100 proposals for research activities presented by the astronomy and astrophysics community for consideration by the survey.3 In addition the PPPs received briefings from federal agencies, project proponents, and other stakeholders at public sessions held in June 2009 at the summer meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Pasadena, California. In their final assembly of priorities the PPPs also took into account assessments of cost and schedule risk, and of the technical readiness of the research activities under consideration for prioritization, that were provided by an NRC-hired contractor, the Aerospace Corporation. As presented in Chapters 6 through 9 of this volume, each PPP report contains a proposed program of prioritized, balanced, and integrated research activities, reflecting the results of its in-depth study of the technical and programmatic issues and its consideration of the results of the independent technical evaluation and cost and schedule risk estimate. The survey committee received draft reports of the PPPs' input on proposed programs at its fourth committee meeting in October 2009.
The SFPs and the PPPs conducted their work independent of each other, although coordinating calls among the panel chairs were held frequently. No members of the panels served on the survey committee, but the panel chairs did attend
The set of white papers submitted is available at http://sites.nationalacademies.org/BPA/BPA_050603.
For more information see http://sites.nationalacademies.org/BPA/BPA_049855.
all but the final committee meeting, and liaisons from the committee attended panel meetings.
The six Infrastructure Study Groups that also provided input for the survey committee's consideration consisted of 71 volunteer consultants drawn for the most part from the astronomy and astrophysics community. These groups gathered and analyzed data on issues in six areas—Computation, Simulation, and Data Handling (including archiving of astronomical data); Demographics (encompassing astronomers and astrophysicists working in different environments and subfields); Facilities, Funding, and Programs (including infrastructure issues such as support for laboratory astrophysics and technology development and theory); International and Private Partnerships; Education and Public Outreach; and Astronomy and Public Policy (benefits to the nation that accrue from federal investment in astronomy and from the potential contributions that professional astronomers can make to research of societal importance, and mechanisms by which the astronomy community provides advice to the federal government)—to describe recent trends and past quantifiable impacts on research programs in astronomy and astrophysics. The ISGs provided preliminary reports to the survey committee and the PPPs at the May 2009 so-called jamboree meeting, and their final reports were completed by the fall of 2009.
It then became the task of the survey committee to integrate the inputs from the SFPs and the PPPs, along with that from the ISGs, into a recommended program for all of astronomy and astrophysics for the decade 2010-2020.
The five SFPs, four PPPs, and six ISGs were critical components of the survey, not only for the content and critical analysis they supplied but also because of the connections they provided to the astronomy and astrophysics community. Moreover the panels completed a Herculean set of tasks in an extraordinarily short time. As presented in this volume, the results of their efforts were essential to the deliberations of the survey committee, the success of whose work depended critically on the sequential and orderly flow of information from the SFPs to the PPPs, and then to the committee as provided for in the survey plan and structure.
In addition, the survey as a whole benefited immensely from the broader participation of the astronomy and astrophysics community, which, over the course of the study and in particular in the first half of 2009, undertook a massive effort to provide input to the survey process. Included were informal reports from 17 community town hall meetings, more than 20 unsolicited e-mails, and 90-plus notices of interest for project activities, in addition to more than 450 white papers on topics including science opportunities, the state of the profession and infrastructure, and opportunities in technology development, theory, computation, and laboratory astrophysics. Critical to the success of the nine panels' and six study groups' work, these inputs were also an early product of the survey in that the white papers and various reports were made available on the NRC Web pages. On behalf of the survey
committee and the panels, sincere thanks are extended to the volunteers from the research community who gave so much of their time to formulate this backbone of information and data as input for the Astro2010 survey process.
The survey committee also acknowledges with heartfelt thanks the critical input represented by the material provided in this volume. The reports of the SFPs and the PPPs stand as a testament to the hard work done by the panels, and especially their chairs. The full value of this tremendous effort will be recognized through the decade to come. The survey committee and the entire field of astronomy and astrophysics owe a great deal of thanks to all those who dedicated their time and effort to the Astro2010 survey activities.
Roger D. Blandford, Chair
Acknowledgment of Members of the Astro2010 Infrastructure Study Groups
The Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics acknowledges with gratitude the contributions of the members of the Astro2010 Infrastructure Study Groups, who gathered information on issues related to the broad topics listed below.
Computation, Simulation, and Data Handling: Robert Hanisch, Space Telescope Science Institute, Co-Chair; Lars Hernquist, Harvard University, Co-Chair; Thomas Abel, Stanford University; Keith Arnaud, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Tim Axelrod, LSST; Alyssa Goodman, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Kathryn Johnston, Columbia University; Andrey Kravtsov, University of Chicago; Kristen Larson, Western Washington University; Carol Lonsdale, National Radio Astronomy Observatory; Mordecai-Mark Mac Low, American Museum of Natural History; Michael Norman, University of California, San Diego; Richard Pogge, Ohio State University; and James Stone, Princeton University.
Demographics: James Ulvestad, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Chair; Jack Gallimore, Bucknell University; Evalyn Gates, University of Chicago; Rachel Ivie, American Institute of Physics; Christine Jones, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Patricia Knezek, WIYN Consortium, Inc.; Travis Metcalfe, National Center for Atmospheric Research; Naveen Reddy, National Optical Astronomy Observatory; Joan Schmelz, University of Memphis; and Louis-Gregory Strolger, Western Kentucky University.
Facilities, Funding, and Programs: J. Craig Wheeler, University of Texas at Austin, Chair; Rebecca A. Bernstein, University of California, Santa Cruz; David Burrows, Pennsylvania State University; Webster Cash, University of Colorado; R. Paul Drake, University of Michigan; Jeremy Goodman, Princeton University; W. Miller Goss, National Radio Astronomy Observatory; Kate Kirby, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Anthony Mezzacappa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory; Robert Millis, Lowell Observatory; Catherine Pilachowski, Indiana University; Farid Salama, NASA Ames Research Center; and Ellen Zweibel, University of Wisconsin.
International and Private Partnerships: Robert L. Dickman, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, Chair; Michael Bolte, University of California, Santa Cruz; George Helou, California Institute of Technology; James Hesser, Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics; Wesley T. Huntress, Carnegie Institution of Washington; Richard Kelley, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; Rolf-Peter Kudritzki, University of Hawaii; Eugene H. Levy, Rice University; Antonella Nota, Space Telescope Science Institute; and Brad Peterson, Ohio State University.
Education and Public Outreach: Lucy Fortson, Adler Planetarium, Co-Chair; Chris Impey, University of Arizona, Co-Chair; Carol Christian, Space Telescope Science Institute; Lynn Cominsky, Sonoma State University; Mary Dussault, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Richard Tresch Feinberg, Phillips Academy; Andrew Fraknoi, Foothill College; Pamela Gay, Southern Illinois University; Jeffrey Kirsch, Reuben H. Fleet Science Center; Robert Mathieu, University of Wisconsin; George Nelson, Western Washington University; Edward Prather, University of Arizona; Philip Sadler, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Keivan Stassun, Vanderbilt University; and Sidney Woolf, LSST.
Astronomy and Public Policy: Daniel F. Lester, University of Texas at Austin, Chair; Jack Burns, University of Colorado; Bruce Carney, University of North Carolina; Heidi Hammel, Space Science Institute; Noel W. Hinners, Lockheed (retired); John Leibacher, National Solar Observatory; J. Patrick Looney, Brookhaven National Laboratory; Melissa McGrath, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center; and Annelia Sargent, California Institute of Technology.
Acknowledgment of Reviewers
These panel reports have been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the Report Review Committee of the National Research Council (NRC). The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making the published reports as sound as possible and to ensure that the reports meet institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscripts remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of these reports:
Science Frontiers Panel Reports
Jonathan Bagger, Johns Hopkins University
Sarbani Basu, Yale University
Timothy Beers, Michigan State University
John H. Black, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Joseph Burns, Cornell University
Len Cowie, University of Hawaii
Marc Davis, University of California, Berkeley
Henry Ferguson, Space Telescope Science Institute
Marla Geha, Yale University
Andrew Gould, Ohio State University
Craig Hogan, University of Chicago
Michael Jura, University of California, Los Angeles
Vicky Kalogera, Northwestern University
Gillian Knapp, Princeton University
Richard McCray, University of Colorado, Boulder
Christopher McKee, University of California, Berkeley
Ramesh Narayan, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
Roman Rafikov, Princeton University
Michael Strauss, Princeton University
Ann Wehrle, Space Science Institute
Rainer Weiss, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (professor emeritus)
Bruce Winstein, University of Chicago
Mark Wyatt, University of Cambridge
Program Prioritization Panel Reports
James Barrowman, NASA (retired)
Darrel Emerson, National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Reinhard Genzel, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Ronald L. Gilliland, Space Telescope Science Institute
James E. Gunn, Princeton University Observatory
Anthony Readhead, California Institute of Technology
Anneila Sargent, California Institute of Technology
Edward L. Wright, University of California, Los Angeles
Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they were not asked to endorse the reports' conclusions or recommendations, nor did they see the final draft of the reports before their release. The review of the Science Frontiers Panel reports was overseen by Kenneth H. Keller, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Bernard F. Burke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The review of the Program Prioritization Panel reports was overseen by Louis J. Lanzerotti, New Jersey Institute of Technology, and Bernard F. Burke, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Appointed by the NRC, they were responsible for making certain that an indepen-
dent examination of the reports was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of the reports rests entirely with the authoring panels and the institution.
REPORTS OF THE ASTRO2010 SCIENCE FRONTIERS PANELS
REPORT OF THE PANEL ON COSMOLOGY AND FUNDAMENTAL PHYSICS
REPORT OF THE PANEL ON THE GALACTIC NEIGHBORHOOD
REPORT OF THE PANEL ON GALAXIES ACROSS COSMIC TIME
REPORT OF THE PANEL ON PLANETARY SYSTEMS AND STAR FORMATION
REPORT OF THE PANEL ON STARS AND STELLAR EVOLUTION
SUMMARY FINDINGS
REPORTS OF THE ASTRO2010 PROGRAM PRIORITIZATION PANELS
REPORT OF THE PANEL ON ELECTROMAGNETIC OBSERVATIONS FROM SPACE
REPORT OF THE PANEL ON OPTICAL AND INFRARED ASTRONOMY FROM THE GROUND
REPORT OF THE PANEL ON PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS AND GRAVITATION
REPORT OF THE PANEL ON RADIO, MILLIMETER, AND SUBMILLIMETER ASTRONOMY FROM THE GROUND
Statements of Task for the Astro2010 Panels
Next: Part I: Reports of the Astro2010 Science Frontiers Panels »
Panel Reports—New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics Get This Book
Every 10 years the National Research Council releases a survey of astronomy and astrophysics outlining priorities for the coming decade. The most recent survey, titled New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics, provides overall priorities and recommendations for the field as a whole based on a broad and comprehensive examination of scientific opportunities, infrastructure, and organization in a national and international context.
Panel Reports—New Worlds, New Horizons in Astronomy and Astrophysics is a collection of reports, each of which addresses a key sub-area of the field, prepared by specialists in that subarea, and each of which played an important role in setting overall priorities for the field. The collection, published in a single volume, includes the reports of the following panels:
Cosmology and Fundamental Physics
Galaxies Across Cosmic Time
The Galactic Neighborhood
Stars and Stellar Evolution
Planetary Systems and Star Formation
Electromagnetic Observations from Space
Optical and Infrared Astronomy from the Ground
Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation
Radio, Millimeter, and Submillimeter Astronomy from the Ground
The Committee for a Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics synthesized these reports in the preparation of its prioritized recommendations for the field as a whole. These reports provide additional depth and detail in each of their respective areas. Taken together, they form an essential companion volume to New Worlds, New Horizons: A Decadal Survey of Astronomy and Astrophysics. The book of panel reports will be useful to managers of programs of research in the field of astronomy and astrophysics, the Congressional committees with jurisdiction over the agencies supporting this research, the scientific community, and the public.
Front Matter i–xxvi
Part I: Reports of the Astro2010 Science Frontiers Panels 1–2
1 Report of the Panel on Cosmology and Fundamental Physics 3–52
2 Report of the Panel on the Galactic Neighborhood 53–94
3 Report of the Panel on Galaxies Across Cosmic Time 95–150
4 Report of the Panel on Planetary Systems and Star Formation 151–206
5 Report of the Panel on Stars and Stellar Evolution 207–246
Summary Findings 247–248
Part II: Reports of the Astro2010 Program Prioritization Panels 249–250
6 Report of the Panel on Electromagnetic Observations from Space 251–310
7 Report of the Panel on Optical and Infrared Astronomy from the Ground 311–378
8 Report of the Panel on Particle Astrophysics and Gravitation 379–438
9 Report of the Panel on Radio, Millimeter, and Submillimeter Astronomy from the Ground 439–500
Appendix A: Statements of Task for the Astro2010 Panels 503–512
Appendix C Acronyms 541–552


20 July 2009, at 9:25a.m.
TURKEY - Saudi Arabia's Plant Food World, has announced it will invest $3 billion in the Turkish agriculture sector, including poultry production.
Private Saudi firm, Planet Food World (PFWC), will invest around $3 billion in agriculture in Turkey over the next five years to export food products to the Gulf region, the head of its Turkish unit told Fresh Plaza.
PFWC wants to build 20,000 industrial farms over the next five years, Mete Mutluoglu said in an interview.
Each farm is seen at 10,000 square metres and will raise vegetables and fruits as well as having fish, poultry, sheep and cattle-raising facilities. PFWC's total land usage in Turkey is seen at 200 square kilometres, he said.
"This may all be increased, if it is possible. Most of the exports will go to Saudi Arabia and the Arabian Peninsula although we would also like to export to Russia and Europe."
He said turnover from the activities may be in the range of $20 billion in five years for the agricultural goods and could go even higher when additional planned food and animal-processing plants are functioning.
Gulf investors have turned to Turkey's large areas of arable land as a destination for agriculture investment, seen totalling billions of dollars in the next few years, in order to secure food resources for their populations.
A Gulf investment fund made up of Abu Dhabi Investment House, Gulf Finance House and Ithmaar Bank in October signed a $6 billion memorandum of understanding for agriculture investments in Turkey.
Food security is expected to be a major concern over the coming years, and the 'Group of Eight' major industrialised nations have focused on raising billions of dollars for agricultural investments.
Saudi Arabian firms have been looking abroad to grow food for the country and Gulf region. PFWC also has a project in Ethiopia, while others are looking at Tanzania and Sudan.
PFWC, which is registered in the United States, will bring its first five prototype farms on line next week in northwestern Turkey. Mutluoglu said the company would start land acquisition and leasing for the farms in the next four to five months.
Land acquisitions would be made from government agencies that own land, cooperatives, privately held foundations that have arable land, or from subsistence farmers, according to Fresh Plaza.


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Mr. Bean Back to School - Accidental Teacher - Should/Shouldn't
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Watch the clip and follow the instructions. Closed and open questions. .........................................................
Mr Bean goes to school and becomes a teacher by chance....................................................................................................................
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Mr Bean is making ...
He... park the car here
shouldn't
Right!
quit!
He buys
Where is he now?
Mr Bean is anow.
The students are very friendly.
What should Mr Bean do?
Is the student very kind?
Why is Mr Bean angry now?
Who wins this?
Look at the classroom and write 6-8 classroom words you can see.
What should Mr Bean do now?
Mr Bean is ...
at the swimming pool
The students are learning.
What lesson is it
Mr Bean has changed the classroom into
a shop
a cinema
a lab
What are all the students doing?
Should Mr Bean always be a teacher?
Bean!
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To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to provide services and facilities to ensure an orderly transition in the office of mayor.
RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the "Mayoral Transition Emergency Declaration Resolution of 1998".
(a) It is in the interests of the citizens and the District of Columbia ("District") government that there be an orderly transfer of executive duties and responsibilities in connection with the expiration of the term of office of a Mayor and the inauguration of a new Mayor. The transition in the office of the Mayor should be accomplished to assure continuity in the faithful execution of the laws and in the conduct of the executive affairs of the District government. office of the Mayor.
(c) Further, the District of Columbia Fiscal Year 1999 Appropriations Act calls on the Council to take steps to provide a smooth and orderly transition.
Sec. 3. The Council determines that the circumstances enumerated in Section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Mayor and Chairman of the Council Transition Emergency Act of 1990 be adopted after a single reading.


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Darkthrone - "Circle The Wagons" (CD)
"Circle The Wagons" track listing:
1. Those Treasures Will Never Befall You
2. Running for Borders
3. I am the Graves of the 80s
4. Stylized Corpse
5. Circle the Wagons
6. Black Mountain Totem
7. I am the Working Class
8. Eyes Burst at Dawn
9. Bränn Inte Slottet
Reviewed by The_Avant_Garde on December 10, 2010
"With Darkthrone's black metal roots, early thrash ideals, and raw punk aesthetic, the band has created a career defining statement that is simply a huge 'fuck you' to the entire metal world."
With the massive amount of bands in today's scene doing various versions of "throwback metal," the importance and significance of these bands and their releases diminishes as each year goes by. While for many people "throwback metal" may now be seen as another flash-in-the-pan trend, every so often an album comes along that truly sends us back to the glory days of the metal old-school. The latest example of such an album comes in the form of Darkthrone's latest, and fourteenth studio album overall, "Circle the Wagons." The album is an absolutely raw and honest record that bleeds old-school metal nostalgia. With Darkthrone's black metal roots, early thrash ideals, and raw punk aesthetic, the band has created a career defining statement that is simply a huge "fuck you" to the entire metal world.
For a few years now, starting with 2004's "The Cult Is Alive," Darkthrone has been experimenting with a more punk version of black metal. While "The Cult Is Alive," the following "F.O.A.D," and "Dark Thrones and Black Flags" were all good records, they still lacked that extra special something that truly took them over the top into classic, must-own metal territory. "Circle the Wagons" on the other hand is a definitive masterpiece of old-school metal released in a day and age where most metal bands are more concerned with their image than its music.
Darkthrone makes it a mission to point out this current metal flaw with "I Am the Graves of the 80's." The chorus very openly proclaims; "I am the graves of the 80s, I am the risen dead, destroy their modern metal and bang your fucking head." This music isn't meant for the kids wearing As I Lay Dying shirts while hanging out at the mall. This is for people who want to know what it felt like to grow up during metal's prime years.
The music itself on "Circle the Wagons" is nothing you haven't already heard from many other bands. The music is very simple and straight to the point, which is really what makes it so special. Essentially, the band isn't trying to be anything that it's not. The members of Darkthrone are writing music that they want to play and music they want to hear. The biggest statement of this comes within the title track. Not only is it by far one of the most punk-inspired songs the band has ever written, but it also features something almost any Darkthone fan of old would have never expected: clean singing. It may have a bit of a medieval feel to it, but there is undoubtedly a clean singing presence within this song from both drummer Fenriz and mainman Nocturno Culto. It may sound extremely out of place for those used to the "Transilvanian Hunger" era, but yet it works so well and comes across as if Darkthrone was always meant to sound this way.
If only there were more veteran bands out there who were willing to take the risks of trying something completely new than what they are used to. The beauty of metal is that something new could easily be something old, as long as the proper amount of faith is put into the song writing. Of course not faith in the biblical sense, but in the fact that there needs to be the confidence to pull off something a fan-base would never expect. Darkthrone has not only made such a statement with "Circle the Wagons," but it has created a timeless metal record that openly challenges every aspect of today's deteriorating metal scene. "Circle the Wagons" will surely stand the test of time and could be placed right beside any of metal's iconic albums.
Highs: A modern-day classic metal record from two guys not afraid to speak their minds.
Lows: A few vocal issues, but very minor ones that are easy to forget.
Bottom line: A modern day classic metal record that openly challenges every aspect of today's deteriorating metal scene.
Get more info including news, reviews, interviews, links, etc. on our Darkthrone band page.
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Google Reader has been dead for awhile and I've been trying out different options as a replacement. I had been using http://netnewswireapp.com on my Mac and found it to be a decent app. However, it didn't sync with anything and I didn't have a reader on my iPad or iPhone. While there are several paid sync services, I didn't want to go that route as who knows when they'll pull the plug and I'll be stuck again; also, I just didn't want a subscription.
I stumbled upon [http://tt-rss.org](Tiny Tiny RSS) and installed it on my virtual server. The web interface was good enough for me to get by and the iOS clients worked (not pretty, but worked). I made due, but just got an iPad mini and missed http://reederapp.com on my devices.
Today I again investigated what to do and found that Reeder and a Mac App called http://readkitapp.com supported a system called http://feedafever.com/. Fever looks interesting and is a $30 one time fee (I'd rather pay one time fees than subscriptions; it is a mental thing and really doesn't always make financial sense). However, after a bit of digging, it appears that Fever may not be actively developed, so I kept searching. As luck would have it, I found [https://github.com/dasmurphy/tinytinyrss-fever-plugin](a plugin) to Tiny Tiny RSS that mimicked the Fever API. I quickly installed the plugin, purchased Reeder and ReadKit, and was back in business syncing my RSS feeds.
Reading RSS on my iPad is great and while this solution isn't for the faint of heart (that seems to be my mantra…come up with solutions that work for me, but likely won't work for others…must be the reason I don't have any of my own products any more!), I'm hopefully this is going to work for me.


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In 2013 Jonny graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, there he studied filmmaking and went on to write and direct his first short film. The film was called THE GROUNDSMAN and starred David O'Hara (The Departed / Braveheart). It screened at multiple festivals worldwide and was nominated for three BAFTA New Talent Awards, ultimately being awarded Best Film and Best Editing. In January 2015 Jonny began an MA in Directing at the NFTS. Whilst there Jonny co-wrote and directed a number of films, most notably his graduation film COME OUT OF THE WOODS that starred Joe Dempsie and Nico Mirallegro. Jonny is currently developing WOODS, a feature length version of the short and another feature project titled YOUNG BLOOD.


This authentic Louis Vuitton Keepall Monogram Canvas 60 features the brand's timeless travel bags. Constructed from brown monogram canvas, this duffle is accented with natural cowhide leather trims and gold hardware. Its roomy light brown canvas interior and lightweight structure makes it the perfect travel companion. Authenticity code reads: FL1922. **Note: Shoe photographed is used as a sizing reference, and does not come with the bag. These are professional pictures of the actual bag offered by Rebag.
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NORTHWEST OHIO PASSENGER RAIL ASSOCIATION
Rail-Auto Travel Comparisons
Friday Night by the Tracks
National Train Day
Rail Forum
PROGRESS & INFORMATION
NOPRA Merchandize
Rail Advocacy Links
nopra_endeavors_april_2018.docx
NOPRA Endeavors
(Northwest Ohio Passenger Rail Association)
Reaffirmed November 15, 2017 & Updated February 28, 2018
1. Rail Advocacy
2. Lakeshore Corridor Initiative
3. Toledo Train Station
4. New Maumee River Rail Bridge
5. Columbus to Fort Wayne Linkup – Chicago & Defiance/Toledo
6. Toledo Streetcars/Light Rail
7. Connecting Toledo with Michigan Rail
Priority: Very High
Economic Impact: Low
Needs:
a. Public Awareness
b. Communication with Public, Corporations, Freight Rail, Amtrak, Independents, and Government Representatives
c. Private and Public Funding
d. Ohio Government Involvement
d. Amtrak Publicity Blitz
Impediments:
a. Public Knowledge of Value of Passenger Rail
b. Getting an Audience with relevant parties
c. Support of Regional Leadership
c. State Politics
d. Amtrak Funding
Likelihood of Success: High
Plans/Actions:
This is our primary mission. We communicate to the public through publications, presentations, forums, and major events such as Nation Train Day Toledo (NTD). As noted, public awareness is a need. It is our greatest need and, presently, our greatest challenge. Upon discussion with people in northwest Ohio it became evident that too many, over 60%, did not know we still had a passenger rail station in Toledo. Without the public having that knowledge it was a major impediment to advocacy and the impetus to get a rail name added to our train station, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza.
To help address that lack of knowledge, surveys were completed on college campuses and which by the visiting public on National Train Day Toledo. The name chosen through surveys and voting was:
Glass City Railway at Martin Luther King, Jr. Plaza
When the name was presented to the Black Caucus, it was rejected.
Secondly, we communicate with private corporations and public officials to explain our positions and the value of passenger rail. Since we are a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization, we do not lobby. We present our advocacy to any political representative who will meet with us to explain the benefits and advantages of rail. Our biggest issue is getting them to return calls and actually meet with us.
Thirdly, we provide petitions and information surveys at NTD to communicate data with political representatives. We have signed with other groups in communication to congressional committees in advocacy of such actions as increased funds for Amtrak and GROW America. We shall continue this.
Fourthly, we need better communications with Amtrak, on how we can better advocate for them and passenger rail and how they can be more of a presence in Northwest Ohio.
Fifth, we have supported the Columbus-Fort Wayne-Chicago. Without financial commitments we were not part of the EIS (Environmental Impact Study) for the connection from Fort Wayne through Defiance to Toledo. We continue to work with All Aboard Ohio in support of the Columbus – Lima – Fort Wayne connection.
Economic Impact: High
a. Political Will
b. Freight Rail, Passenger Rail, and Government Cooperation
d. Increasing and Upgrading Tracks
b. Freight Rail Operations
c. Financing
d. State Politics
e. Available Passenger Cars
f. Controlling Project Costs
Likelihood of Success: Moderate
In November 2012, we agreed to work with Rick Harnish of Midwest High-Speed Rail Association (https://www.midwesthsr.org/) to advocate for and raise money to push the Northern Corridor now the Lakeshore Corridor Initiative to increase awareness of passenger rail, to increase trains and improvement of travel reliability, and to increase the four track main from two to four tracks between Cleveland and Chicago. As part of the advocacy we, in NOPRA, attempted to get political and private entities from Bryan to Sandusky to support and contribute financially to this corridor improvement. This was arduous and not always productive but increasing trains, especially during the day, is necessary for growth across Northwest Ohio.
As noted under advocacy, we often have difficulty getting to see key people in public positions. Private enterprise is more open and supportive but not forthcoming monetarily at this time.
One of our biggest concerns is the advancement of high-speed rail across Michigan. They have political will and support, public support, and monetary support making it a reality. When this combines with a new bridge between Detroit and Windsor and 130 mph track improvements across Ontario, it puts the Lakeshore Corridor in a difficult position. Michigan is already five years ahead of us and moving faster to complete faster passenger rail lines.
The other issue along the Lakeshore Corridor is the improvement of the passenger rail stations including Elyria and Toledo. (See Toledo Train Station)
Midwest Regional Rail System (MWRRS) study (https://www.midwestrailplan.org/) showed that Ohio is a strong market for passenger rail. Investment in the next generation of rail would increase rail manufacturing and jobs throughout the industrial Midwest where Ohio would benefit the most with 122 manufacturers. In our discussions with different leaders we were told that at least two companies were interested in building passenger cars in Toledo. No matter the political and financial concerns we should have been able to have them locate in Toledo.
In 2012 Norfolk Southern participated in the location of 64 new industries and the expansion of 30 existing industries along its rail lines for an investment of $2.1 billion. (See Maumee Bridge)
This illustrates the need to work with and have the cooperation of freight rail and in particular, Norfolk Southern. Amtrak operates over all Class I railroads because it has trackage rights, but it does not maintain those tracks or control train movements on those tracks. The arrangement affects Amtrak operations in two significant ways:
One, the host railroad is responsible for track maintenance. In the U.S. freight railroads spend about 17 percent of their revenue on capital expenses including infrastructure upgrades and maintenance of tracks.
Two, Amtrak has priority over freight traffic only for a specified and small window of time. When a passenger train misses that window, for example due to an earlier delay, host railroads may (and frequently do) direct passenger trains to follow slower freight traffic.
These limitations explain why our impetus has been on increasing the main between Cleveland and Chicago back to four tracks. We need support from Norfolk Southern, Amtrak, advocacy groups, private enterprise, and government entities to make this a reality.
When considering the advantages of increasing passenger rail the following needs to be considered. Over the past five years the average subsidy per Amtrak ticket has been $5.62. Amtrak ticket sales and other revenue covered 94.7% of its operating costs in fiscal-year 2017. In 2012, the operation costs per passenger mile, was 34.9 cents of which 88% or 30.7 cents was recovered by ticket costs. It is the most economical per passenger mile and the most environmental friendly of all transportation modes.
The published FRA (Federal Rail Administration) guideline in 2009 pushed funding for corridor programs that have established service objectives and "reasonable project cost and benefit estimates" (such as the Midwest Regional Plan). Even though our state government has failed to capitalize on these funding opportunities we must push to expand the frequency and reliability of our corridor.
Economic Impact: Moderate
a. Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority Actions
b. Public Funding
c. Private Support (Businesses) for the Venue
a. Public Funding
b. Controlling Project Costs
c. Possible Conflicts with Norfolk Southern
Likelihood of Success: Very High
The Toledo Train Station has aged and the second and third platforms need to be ADA compliant which is a thrust of Amtrak and the FRA. Amtrak has completed some repairs to the cement work in front and patched some of the more deteriorated edges of the main platform. The establishment of Greyhound has made the station intermodal. Also, included is a Subway food station open during the day but not when trains embark and disembark. It needs to be a 24 hour food service vendor. The Port Authority promised to work on the signage plan (coordinating with ODOT) and get Greyhound and Amtrak involved in signage and advertising to increase community awareness.
Regional efforts have been pursued. NOACA (Northeast Ohio Areawide Coordinating Agency) entered into an MUO (Memorandum of Understanding) agreement with the Erie Regional Planning Commission and TMACOG (Toledo Metropolitan Area Council of Governments) to create a Northern Ohio Rail Alliance (NORA) pushing for a TIGER (Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery) grant to upgrade four rail stations; Cleveland, Elyria, Sandusky, and Toledo. TMACOG signed the MUO in support of the goal. Elyria received $2.9 million from Amtrak and $540,000 from ODOT for their station and work has begun. The total cost for the Elyria station is estimated to cost between $8 - $10 million.
The Port Authority is using an EIS earmark fund of $936,000 to renovate the platforms. At this point, there appears to be no planning for future expansion and how many tracks will need access. Even with only four trains we have passenger trains waiting to access our station. We, NOPRA, urge the final plan to provide for ADA access to at least five tracks which can be accessed by the planned two access elevators. Bob Seyfang, a member of NOPRA and an architect who heads up the Toledo Design Center, a nonprofit group of architects and planners, drafted an updated renovation plan for the train station and area neighborhood as a development district, the Middlegrounds Development District. The Middlegrounds Development District is updating its planning with TMACOG.
Economic Impact: Very High
a. Political Will pushed by Advocacy and Federal Government
b. Freight Rail, Passenger Rail and Government Cooperation
d. Construction Industry Support
a. Lack of Public Knowledge of Value of Bridge to Region
c. Political Will
d. Financing
e. Controlling Project Costs
Likelihood of Success: Moderate to High
When one thinks about a high impact opportunity, building a modern railroad bridge across the treacherous Maumee River is just such a project. Jerry Wicks, of OHERN (Ohio Higher Education Rail Network), NOPRA, and AAO (All Aboard Ohio) has provided a concept paper on, not only just a railroad bridge, but a modern, eye catching, futuristic infrastructure bridge that would be conducive to not only today's east-west traffic across the Maumee River but well into the future. This new bridge would have either three or four tracks serving primarily freight along with
passenger rail.
The Toledo New York Central Railroad Bridge, built in 1902, is located where currents can be difficult especially for big ocean going grain ships. It has been damaged several times shutting down efficient east-west rail traffic. Its sister swing bridge in NJ was condemned several years ago and is in need of replacement by NJDOT. They noted the NJ swing bridge did not have the safety features bridge engineers now demand of modern structures. Since our bridge is older (built in 1902), we believe the Toledo swing bridge needs to be replaced. It is a critical freight and passenger rail bridge which can only carry two trains at one time, often delaying other trains therefore, making it a choke point on this major east-west route. Norfolk Southern informed us it can be circumvented if necessary. If it were not functional, it would delay and alter the route of about 100 freight trains and 4 passenger trains daily.
The needs for a new (second) bridge are; 1) the eventual need for more capacity across the river as both freight and passenger traffic are projected to increase in the coming decades and, 2) the precarious nature of having only one viable Maumee crossing since Norfolk Southern sold their downriver bridge to the Wheeling & Lake Erie. This old swing bridge is their ONLY Maumee River crossing. Adding a three or four track modern bridge that could handle more trains faster would facilitate better east-west freight and passenger traffic. Also, a new, modern bridge will be required for high speed rail.
This is primarily a waterway safety and freight issue with passenger rail piggybacking onto the effort. We need leadership from the City of Toledo, the Lucas County-Commissioners, the Toledo-Lucas County Port Authority, private enterprise, unions, and the state government. We need congressional representatives and senators to publicly support this investment into our future.
In addition to the benefits for rail, the bridge would be a boon for northwest Ohio and, in particular, Toledo. It would mean engineering and construction jobs for at least a couple of years. When completed, it would be a trophy piece not only for rail but for tourism in Toledo and Ohio. It would bring people to Toledo and to the new Middlegrounds Metro Park which would be at its edge.
We, NOPRA, are providing the concept paper and championing the opportunity this presents for all. We need to work with NS to not only get their support but for them to champion a new bridge.
PowerPoint slide presentation on the proposed Middlegrounds Rail Lift Bridge that works on all computers: http://www.slideshare.net/jwicks99/maumee-river-rrliftbridge.
5. Columbus to Fort Wayne Linkup
Economic Impact: Low to Moderate
a. Freight Rail, Passenger Rail and Government Cooperation
b. Private and Public Funding
a. State Politics
b. Financing
c. Upgrading Tracks
d. Controlling Project Costs
Likelihood of Success: Low to Moderate
Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC), Northern Indiana Passenger Rail Association (NIPRA), and All Aboard Ohio (AAO) have joined support to initiate a Columbus through Fort Wayne to Chicago passenger rail. NIPRA realized that, standing alone, Fort Wayne to Chicago does not have "independent utility" as the Federal Railroad Administration defines that term. Therefore, the corridor needed to be extended into Ohio for planning purposes. The opportunity to participate in the Feasibility Study was offered to Toledo as well as to Lima and Columbus. In 2012 Columbus accepted and became a participant in and contributor to the study. The Ohio Hub Plan foresaw regional connections from Chicago to Columbus through Fort Wayne and eastward to Pittsburgh via Newark, Coshocton, and Steubenville.
To date NIPRA has raised over $600,000 for the next phase of pre-development, which is the "Tier One" Environmental Impact Study. Indiana partners have taken the lead in fund raising, but the Ohio partners are now engaged and catching up in pursuit of funds for their portion of the Chicago-Fort Wayne-Columbus passenger rail project.
In discussion with NIPRA, AAO Board, and Defiance County Commissioners there was substantial support for extending the line from Fort Wayne to Toledo through Defiance. As advocates, we are in favor of this connection for a multitude of reasons and as many opportunities. This would allow traffic between Toledo – Fort Wayne with connections through Lima to Columbus including another option to Chicago. It would establish more passenger rail service through Toledo. Also, it would be a possible first step for OHERN connecting various college campuses.
In discussion with Northwest Ohio leadership there was initial interest in pursuing this passenger line interconnecting cities and states but this interest did not translate into any actions.
Prior to our further extending efforts to this end, we need leadership from the Lucas County Commissioners, the Port Authority, and, especially, the City of Toledo. Support from the state's general assembly and the Ohio Rail Development Commission would greatly improve the probability of this project being completed. NIPRA completed their RFP (Request for Proposal) for a First Tier EIS between Fort Wayne and Gary, Indiana. They worked with concerned parties in Ohio, led by MORPC (Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission), to get funding for the Columbus to Lima leg of the proposed trackage. At this time, no significant funding has been produced to complete this leg.
Financial support from Defiance County and Lucas County would be needed to complete an EIS to include the leg to Toledo. There is only a short distance in Lucas County required to hookup with the present east-west mainline. Further work needs to be done with coordination and planning before any actions will be forthcoming.
Priority: Low to Moderate
a. Vision and Leadership for the future growth of Toledo
b. Political Will
d. Toledo Naysayers
Core Circulator
Since there was an engineering concept with practical implications of a streetcar circulator for downtown Toledo commissioned by TMACOG, it should be a major consideration to answer the need for transformational opportunity for Toledo. As the Core Circulator depicts, it would bring visitors to downtown Toledo, facilitate getting around Toledo, increase foot traffic, and bring, as in other cities around the nation, significant investment. All of these are needed for the future growth of Toledo.
River Runner Line
Jerry Wicks proposed another plan that might be incorporated into a long range plan for light rail in Toledo. A light rail path along the Maumee River might offer better potential for economic development compared to the circulator plan. To date, there isn't any demographic data or an engineered plan as with the Core Circulator. Visually, it appears it would be easier to develop the real estate along the river than properties to the northwest of 11th or 14th street in downtown Toledo.
The line is tentatively named "River Runner" because it would run along the river down the center of Broadway and Summit St., beginning at the Toledo Zoo and end at the now closed Riverside Hospital. The line would terminate in the South with a turn-around in the Walbridge Park parking lot directly across from the entrance to the Toledo Zoo. At the North end, the line could terminate with a turn-around in the parking lot between the YMCA and the old Riverside Hospital or be moved further north along Summit St. It would cover a distance of about 5 miles, serving the Toledo Zoo, residential areas between the zoo and downtown, the train station, major sites downtown, and support the fledgling business community along N. Summit St. One big advantage of this plan is that it pulls the Toledo Zoo into the economic sphere of downtown Toledo. The Zoo and downtown both need the other's local micro-economies. Economic activity at both locations would increase with the River Runner. And by having the light rail incorporate the train station with the center of downtown it further enhances the growing sense of importance of the station, while increasing the value of the land surrounding the station.
A linear path is easily extended. A southern addition could continue along Broadway to River Rd., incorporate the Toledo Country Club and continue on to downtown Maumee. This is a lovely residential area that would be well served by a near silent, light rail line. The Northern extension of the line would continue along Summit St. to Point Place, again, serving a substantial residential area of Toledo. Introducing light rail in both directions would result in substantial residential economic development along the nearby waterways.
Only one track would be needed, with the exception of one or two places where sidings would be required for passing if two trams were operating simultaneously on the line.
Many facets of transportation, scientific needs, economics of scale, and population movements are pushing the need to be able to transport more people cheaper and cleaner than we have over the past fifty years. Young and old adults alike prefer not to or are unable to drive. This means they need a means of public transit to get around where they live. Changing demographics provide a greater demand for 'transit oriented development" (TOD), which are part of the equation for proposals for streetcars. This has been a governmental obligation to ensure mobility for all. Interestingly, there are now 76 million 'baby boomers' and 75-80 million 'millennials.' Almost one half of all households are single, many of these looking for housing and transportation alternatives.
These ideas to return streetcars to downtown Toledo are steeped in history and historical interest in the Core Circulator plan (the downtown community - merchants, business people, etc. - spoke in favor). The River Runner though new may bring not only historical interest but renewed interest in rail transit. The major benefits would include people preferring to live near the line(s), increased foot traffic downtown, and alleviation of parking issues. The growth in streetcars is attributed to the rebirth of America's 'central city' and generational changes, declines in automobile use and a desire by cities to redevelop and repopulate neighborhoods in ways that promote sustainable lifestyles.
There has been discussion as to the 'type' of streetcars to be used; traditional overhead electrified light rail, Bombardier's Primove light rail induction power technology <http://primove.bombardier.com/application/light-rail/, or Bus rapid transit (BRT). The traditional light rail has a high initial infrastructure investment compared to the other two.
The cost to build Bombardier's Primove light rail would be less than $7 million a mile, less than traditional overhead electrified light rail, plus Bombardier's system is easier and cheaper to maintain. It was estimated a 5 mile long light rail system in downtown Toledo could be built for less than $40m. The system could be operated by a public transportation entity such as TARTA.
Bus rapid transit (BRT) has been proposed in the Public Transit and Passenger Rail Committee as an alternative to streetcars/light rail. BRT aims to combine the capacity and speed of light rail or metro with the flexibility, lower cost and simplicity of a bus system. A true BRT system will have most of the following elements:
Alignment in the center of the road (to avoid typical curb-side delays)
Stations with off-board fare collection (to reduce boarding and alighting delay related to paying the driver)
Station platforms level with the bus floor (to reduce boarding and alighting delay caused by steps)
Bus priority at intersections (to avoid intersection signal delay)
The average capital cost per mile for busways was $13.5 million while light rail average costs were $34.8 million. However, the total investment varies considerably due to factors such as cost of the roadway, amount of grade separation, station structures, traffic signal systems and vehicles.
In Toledo, infrastructure investment is always an issue. American Public Transportation Association (APTA)'s 2014 Update to the Economic Impact of Public Transportation Investment notes that for every dollar spent on public transportation the economy receives three dollars back. Also, 314 jobs are created for each $10 million invested in transit capital funding. Two of the main advantages of rail versus the BRT is cost per passenger mile and trackside investment (due to the tracks being in place businesses know they will have a continuing customer base). Both of these can be mitigated with a well designed BRT system with set stations and routes. BRT still has the pollution of diesel fuel exhaust contributing to transportation's 13.5% of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide.
We, NOPRA, need to be supportive of public transit although it is not specifically passenger rail. We will garner more support for our objectives and organization as an advocate and partner of and for the other community endeavors and initiatives instead of being only a niche for ourselves.
Here is a map of where the River Runner line (in red) would run.
Priority: Moderate to high
b. Government Cooperation
a. States' Politics (SEMCOG)
c. Available Passenger Cars
e. Track Upgrade
For direct connection with Michigan DOT on north to south routes, it is one project too many for MDOT especially since it involves interstate cooperation to complete. However, a regional group out of Traverse City, Michigan, (Groundwork Center for Community Resilient Communities), has hired TEMS, Inc. (Transportation Economics & Management Systems) to complete a feasibility study between Traverse City and Ann Arbor project - 2TC: Train from TC to Ann Arbor. Steps are being taken to include the route between Ann Arbor and Toledo as an add-on. Funding of $27,500 will be needed to include Toledo in the Ann Arbor to Toledo portion of the study. Plans and efforts working with TMACOG are moving forward to be part of this study.


Simon is the Chief Executive of Uniting Communities. Originally trained in Social Work, Simon has spent more than 30 years in social services practice, management and policy development and advocacy in both the Government and not-for-profit sectors in Australia, the United Kingdom and Sri Lanka.
Simon joined Uniting Communities as Chief Executive in mid-2010 with a commitment to build on the organisation's history and reputation as a progressive agency for social change, reconciliation and fostering compassionate and resilient communities.
In 2017, Simon was awarded a Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia for significant service to the community, particularly to children and families through social welfare organisations, programs and initiatives.
Sue is the Chair of the Board of Uniting Communities, and joined the Board in 2014. Until recently, she was the Discipline Head, Social Work and Human Services at the University of South Australia. In addition to her roles at the University, she has been President of the Australian Association of Social Workers, SA Branch and a member of a number of other Boards, including currently an aged care facility, Summerhill Inc., and in the past Relationships Australia (SA), the South Australian Housing Trust and the Children's Services Consultative Committee.
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Born in Germany, he trained as a psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and worked as a forensic psychiatrist before migrating to Australia in 1996. Since then he has worked within the public sector in SA Metro and Country Services, for about 8 years in the capacity as Clinical Director. He has an academic appointment at Flinders University with a research interest in e-Health and m-Health. This interest has led him to venture into entrepreneurship as a founding member of an IT start-up. He has served and is serving on the boards of mental health related NGOs. Personally and professionally, he has a strong commitment to social justice and is championing recovery oriented work.
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