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April 18, 1966- Bill Russell
GM – FBF – "Success is a result of consistent practice of winning skills and actions. There is nothing miraculous about the process. There is no luck involved." – Bill Russell
Remember – "I hope I epitomize the American dream. For I came against long odds, from the ghetto to the very top of my profession. I was not immediately good at basketball. It did not come easy. It came as the result of a lot of hard work and self-sacrifice. The rewards, where they worth it? One thousand times over." – Bill Russell
Today in our History – April 18,1966 – Bill Russell is announced to the press as coach of the Boston Celtics basketball team and became the first Black to coach an established team in professional athletics.
William Felton Russell (born February 12, 1934) is an American retired professional basketball player. Russell played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1956 to 1969. A five-time NBA Most Valuable Player and a twelve-time All-Star, he was the centerpiece of the Celtics dynasty, winning eleven NBA championships during his thirteen-year career. Russell ties the record for the most championships won by an athlete in a North American sports league (with Henri Richard of the National Hockey League). Before his professional career, Russell led the University of San Francisco to two consecutive NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956, and he captained the gold-medal winning U.S. national basketball team at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Russell is widely considered as one of the greatest basketball players in NBA history. He was 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) tall, with a 7 ft 4 in (2.24 m) wingspan. His shot-blocking and man-to-man defense were major reasons for the Celtics' domination of the NBA during his career. He also inspired his teammates to elevate their own defensive play. Russell was equally notable for his rebounding abilities. He led the NBA in rebounds four times, had a dozen consecutive seasons of 1,000 or more rebounds, and remains second all-time in both total rebounds and rebounds per game. He is one of just two NBA players (the other being prominent rival Wilt Chamberlain) to have grabbed more than 50 rebounds in a game. Russell was never the focal point of the Celtics' offense, but he did score 14,522 career points and provided effective passing.
Russell played in the wake of pioneers like Earl Lloyd, Chuck Cooper, and Sweetwater Clifton, and he was the first African American player to achieve superstar status in the NBA. He also served a three-season (1966–69) stint as player-coach for the Celtics, becoming the first African-American coach in North American pro sports and the first to win a world championship. In 2011, Barack Obama awarded Russell the Presidential Medal of Freedom for his accomplishments on the court and in the Civil Rights Movement.
Russell is one of seven players in history to win an NCAA Championship, an NBA Championship, and an Olympic gold medal. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame and the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame. He was selected into the NBA 25th Anniversary Team in 1971 and the NBA 35th Anniversary Team in 1980, and named as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History in 1996, one of only four players to receive all three honors. In 2007, he was enshrined in the FIBA Hall of Fame. In Russell's honor the NBA renamed the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player trophy in 2009: it is now the Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award. Many talk about who is the GOAT in Professional Basketball but to be a player – coach and win an NBA Championship, no one after Bill has done that. Research more about this great American and share with your babies. Make it a champion day!
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April 16, 1908- Allen Allensworth
GM – FBF – "Create sentiment favorable to intellectual and industrial liberty" – Allen Allensworth
Remember – "Can I be of any service to your committee as a speaker driving the campaign?" – Allen Allensworth
Today in our History – April 16, 1908 – All Black Town Is Created!
Allen Allensworth (7 April 1842 – 14 September 1914), born into slavery in Kentucky, escaped during the American Civil War and became a Union soldier; later he became a Baptist minister and educator, and was appointed as a chaplain in the United States Army. He was the first African American to reach the rank of lieutenant colonel. He planted numerous churches, and in 1908 founded Allensworth, California, the only town in the state to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans.
After the army, Allensworth and his family settled in Los Angeles. He was inspired by the idea of establishing a self-sufficient, all-black California community where African Americans could live free of the racial discrimination that pervaded post-Reconstruction America. His dream was to build a community where black people might live and create "sentiment favorable to intellectual and industrial liberty."
In 1908, he founded Allensworth in Tulare county, about thirty miles north of Bakersfield, in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. The black settlers of Allensworth built homes, laid out streets, and put up public buildings. They established a church, and organized an orchestra, a glee club, and a brass band.
The Allensworth colony became a member of the county school district and the regional library system and a voting precinct. Residents elected the first African-American Justice of the Peace in post-Mexican California. In 1914, the California Eagle reported that the Allensworth community consisted of 900 acres (360 ha) of deeded land worth more than US$112,500.
Allensworth soon developed as a town, not just a colony. Among the social and educational organizations that flourished during its golden age were the Campfire Girls, the Owl Club, the Girls' Glee Club, and the Children's Savings Association, for the town's younger residents, while adults participated in the Sewing Circle, the Whist Club, the Debating Society, and the Theater Club. Col. Allensworth was an admirer of the African-American educator Booker T. Washington, who was the founding president and longtime leader of the Tuskegee Institute in Alabama. Allensworth dreamed that his new community could be self-sufficient and become known as the "Tuskegee of the West".
The Girls' Glee Club was modeled after the Jubilee Singers of Fisk University, who had toured internationally. They were the community's pride and joy. All the streets in the town were named after notable African Americans and/or white abolitionists, such as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, poet Paul Lawrence Dunbar, and Harriet Beecher Stowe, abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The dry and dusty soil made farming difficult. The drinking water became contaminated by arsenic as the water level fell.
The year 1914 also brought a number of setbacks to the town. First, much of the town's economic base was lost when the Santa Fe Railroad moved its rail stop from Allensworth to Alpaugh. In September, during a trip to Monrovia, California, Colonel Allensworth was crossing the street when he was struck and killed by a motorcycle. The town refuses to die. The downtown area is now preserved as Colonel Allensworth State Historic Park where thousands of visitors come from all over California to take part in the special events held at the park during the year. The area outside the state park is also still inhabited.
Allensworth is the only California community to be founded, financed and governed by African Americans. The founders were dedicated to improving the economic and social status of African Americans. Uncontrollable circumstances, including a drop in the area's water table, resulted in the town's decline. Research more about Black towns in America and Share with your babies. Make it a champion day!
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April 4, 1972- Adam Clayton Powell, Jr
GM – FBF – "The black masses must demand and refuse to accept nothing less than that proportionate percentage of the political spoils such as jobs, elective offices and appointments… They must reject the shameful racial tokenism that characterizes the political life of America today. – Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (U.S. Congressman – NY – D)
Remember – :"Where Negroes provide 20 percent of the vote, they should have 20 per cent of the jobs." – Adam Clayton Powell, Jr. (U.S. Congressman – NY – D)
Today in our History –
Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., (born Nov. 29, 1908, New Haven, Conn., U.S.—died April 4, 1972, Miami, Fla.), black American public official and pastor who became a prominent liberal legislator and civil-rights leader.
Powell was the son of the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York City. Brought up in a middle-class home, he received his B.A. from Colgate University (Hamilton, N.Y.) in 1930 and his M.A. from Columbia University in 1932. He succeeded his father as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in 1937 and eventually built up its membership to 13,000 people. With the church as his power base, Powell was able to build a formidable public following in Harlem through his crusades for jobs and housing for the poor. He won election to the New York City Council in 1941, becoming the first black man to serve on that body. In 1945 he won election to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Democrat from Harlem. There he began a long fight against racial segregation. He served 11 successive terms in the House and became chairman of its Education and Labor Committee in 1960. In that capacity he played a leading role in the passage of a minimum wage act, antipoverty acts, and bills supporting manpower training and federal aid to education, about 50 major pieces of social legislation in all.
Powell's outspoken opposition to racism and his flamboyant lifestyle made him enemies, however, and in the early 1960s he became involved in a lawsuit with a woman who claimed he had wrongly accused her of collecting police graft. He was cited for contempt of court in 1966 for refusing to pay damages, and in 1967 the House voted to deprive him of his seat. He was nevertheless reelected in his district in 1968 but was then deprived by his colleagues in the House of his committee chairmanship and his seniority. In 1969 the U.S. Supreme Court decided that the action of the House in depriving him of his seat had been unconstitutional, but by that time Powell's health was failing. After his defeat in the Democratic primary election of 1970, he resigned as pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in 1971 and retired to the island of Bimini in The Bahamas. Research more about this American Hero and share with your babies. Make it a champion day! I am speaking at Kennasaw State Univerity and will not be able to respond to any posts today. Peace!
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March 28, 1990- Shirley Chisholm
GM – FBF – First Black Woman to run for U.S. President
Remember – "You don't make progress by standing on the sidelines, whimpering and complaining. You make progress by implementing ideas." Shirley Chisholm
Today in our History – March 28, 1990 – Shirley Chisholm starts the African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom.
Shirley Anita Chisholm (née St. Hill; November 30, 1924 – January 1, 2005) was an American politician, educator, and author. In 1968, she became the first black woman elected to the United States Congress, and she represented New York's 12th Congressional District for seven terms from 1969 to 1983. In 1972, she became the first black candidate for a major party's nomination for President of the United States, and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.
In 2015, Chisholm was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Shirley Anita St. Hill was born on November 30, 1924, in Brooklyn, New York, to immigrant parents from the Caribbean region. She had three younger sisters, two born within three years after St. Hill, one later. Their father, Charles Christopher St. Hill, was born in British Guiana, lived in Barbados for a while, and then arrived in the United States via Antilla, Cuba, on April 10, 1923, aboard the S.S. Munamar in New York City. Their mother, Ruby Seale, was born in Christ Church, Barbados, and arrived in New York City aboard the S.S. Pocone on March 8, 1921. Beginning in 1939, St. Hill attended Girls' High School in the Bedford–Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn, a highly regarded, integrated school that attracted girls from throughout Brooklyn. St. Hill earned her Bachelor of Arts from Brooklyn College in 1946, where she won prizes for her debating skills. She was a member of Delta Sigma Theta sorority.
St. Hill met Conrad O. Chisholm in the late 1940s. He had come to the U.S. from Jamaica in 1946 and later became a private investigator who specialized in negligence-based lawsuits. They married in 1949 in a large West Indian-style wedding.
Chisholm taught in a nursery school while furthering her education, earning her MA in elementary education from Teachers College at Columbia University in 1952.
Chisholm began exploring her candidacy in July 1971, and formally announced her presidential bid on January 25, 1972, in a Baptist church in her district in Brooklyn. There she called for a "bloodless revolution" at the forthcoming Democratic nomination convention. Chisholm became the first black major-party candidate to run for President of the United States, in the 1972 U.S. presidential election, making her also the first woman ever to run for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination (U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith had previously run for the Republican presidential nomination in 1964). By the time of the national convention, the loyalists were seated following a credentials challenge, and their delegates were characterized as mostly supporting McGovern, with some support for Humphrey. During the convention, some McGovern delegates became angry about what they saw as statements from McGovern that backed away from his commitment to end U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia, and cast protest votes for Chisholm as a result. During the actual balloting, Mississippi went in the first half of the roll call, and cast 12 of its 25 votes for Chisholm, with McGovern coming next with 10 votes.
During the campaign the German filmmaker Peter Lilienthal shot the documentary film Shirley Chisholm for President for German Television channel ZDF.
After leaving Congress, Chisholm made her home in suburban Williamsville, New York. She resumed her career in education, being named to the Purington Chair at the all-women Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts. As such she was not a member of any particular department, but would be able to teach classes in a variety of areas; those previously holding the position included W. H. Auden, Bertrand Russell, and Arna Bontemps.
At Mount Holyoke, she taught politics and sociology from 1983 to 1987. She focused on undergraduate courses that covered politics as it involved women and race. Dean of faculty Joseph Ellis later said that Chisholm "contributed to the vitality of the College and gave the College a presence." In 1985 she was a visiting scholar at Spelman College.
During those years, she continued to give speeches at colleges, by her own count visiting over 150 campuses since becoming nationally known. She told students to avoid polarization and intolerance: "If you don't accept others who are different, it means nothing that you've learned calculus." Continuing to be involved politically, she traveled to visit different minority groups and urging them to become a strong force at the local level. In 1984 and 1988, she campaigned for Jesse Jackson for the presidential elections. In 1990, Chisholm, along with 15 other black women and men, formed the African-American Women for Reproductive Freedom.
Chisholm retired to Florida in 1991. In 1993, President Bill Clinton nominated her to be United States Ambassador to Jamaica, but she could not serve due to poor health and the nomination was withdrawn. In the same year she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame.
Chisholm died on January 1, 2005, in Ormond Beach near Daytona Beach, after suffering several strokes. She is buried in the Oakwood Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, where the legend inscribed on her vault reads: "Unbought and Unbossed". Research more about this great American and share with your babies. Make it a champion day!
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April 27, 2009- Donna Edwards
GM – FBF – Last day of executive meetings and tomorrow I can start responding to your words about the posts. Today, we remember a brave black women who protested something she felt was wrong. Enjoy!
Remember -"Power is getting things done without having to demonstrate that you can bulldoze it through. I'm most effective when I've studied an issue, when I can make a credible argument, and then bring people along." -( U.S. Congresswoman 4th District MD. – Donna Edwards)
Today in our History – April 27, 2009 – Donna Edwards Aressted.
Donna Edwards is a Democratic member of U.S. House of Representatives, representing the 4th Congressional District of Maryland since 2008. Early in 2009 she was among a group of U.S. Congress members who were handcuffed and arrested while protesting the expulsion of aid groups from Darfur in front of the Sudanese Embassy in Washington, D.C.
Edwards earned her BA from Wake Forest University where she was one of six African American women in her class. She later earned a JD from Franklin Pierce Law Center in New Hampshire. Prior to her political career, she worked as a systems engineer with the Spacelab program at Lockheed Corporation's Goddard Space Flight Center. During the 1980s, Edwards worked as a clerk for then district judge Albert Wynn when he served in the Maryland House of Delegates.
Edwards also was involved in numerous community organizations prior to entering political office. She co-founded, chaired, and served as the first executive director of the National Network to End Domestic Violence, a legal support and advocacy group for battered women. She was instrumental in helping to pass the 1994 Violence Against Women Act. Edwards also headed the Center for a New Democracy and was a lobbyist for the nonprofit Public Citizen organization. Edwards participates on numerous nonprofit boards including Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Common Cause, and the League of Conservation Voters. Since 2000, she has served as executive director of the Arca Foundation.
After a controversial Democratic primary loss to Rep. Albert Wynn in 2006 in which there were substantial problems with the voting process, she defeated Wynn in the primary in 2008. Later that year, she filled the congressional seat after winning a special election when Wynn resigned mid-term. She serves on the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, the Science and Technology Committee, and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission.
On April 27, 2009, Edwards was arrested outside the Sudanese Embassy in Washington D.C., during a protest against genocide in Darfur. She and four other members of Congress were protesting the blocking of aid to victims.
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March 19, 1969- James Sims Elected President
GM – FBF – "If you were Jewish, African American, Japanese, or Chinese, you lived in that neighborhood," – Lydia Sims
Remember – "They dreamed of a place where you'd be able to send a kid to whatever school you wanted, you'd be able to buy a house wherever you could afford," – Lydia Sims
Today in our History – March 19, 1969 – The Spokane, WA Community Action Council elected James Sims president.
During World War II, Lydia Sims moved from Newark, New Jersey, to Spokane with her husband, James Sims, an Army Air Force soldier stationed at Geiger Airfield. At the end of the war, the Sims family decided to remain in Spokane. For 10 years they lived in the Garden Springs housing project, a complex in west Spokane inhabited primarily by former military families. There they raised their sons, James McCormick and twins Ron and Donald. Lydia Sims's political views were strongly influenced by racial discrimination, which she vehemently opposed. In the 1960s, as a student at Eastern Washington University, she participated in a movement to desegregate schools in Cheney, Washington. Later, she served on the state's Human Rights Coalition, the League of Women Voters, the Human Rights Council, and the Washington State Advisory Committee of the U.S. Civil Rights Commission.
In the late 1960s, she became personnel director of the Spokane Community Action Council, an agency that managed Head Start and various community centers. In 1975 she became the city's affirmative action specialist, and in 1976 joined the newly established Spokane City Affirmative Action Department. She was eventually appointed human resources director for the city of Spokane, the first African American department manager in that city's history. In this position Sims helped African Americans, women, and other minority groups find opportunities in Spokane's job market. In the 1980s, Sims became the first African American female branch president of the Spokane National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
After serving in the military, James Sims, who had a bachelor's degree from Lincoln University and a master's in history from Gonzaga University, applied for a position with the Washington state Office of Community Development. Although he excelled in the civil service exam for the position, the state denied Sims the job. Sims enlisted the help of renowned Spokane civil rights attorney Carl Maxey and sued the state. He won the case and was employed as a state social worker. He later worked with state employees as a union organizer.
In the 1950s, James Sims served as a minister at the Calvary Baptist Church, and in the mid-1960s, he became pastor of the New Hope Baptist Church. In 1956 Sims was elected president of the Spokane NAACP, replacing James Chase. As president, he often publicly criticized the city for its reluctance to hire African Americans. Sims also exposed restaurants, hotels, automobile repair shops, and banks for not hiring blacks. On March 19, 1969, the Spokane Community Action Council elected Sims president partly because of his year long campaign to get city agencies to hire African Americans.
After James Sims's death in the 1990s, Lydia Sims retired to Edmonds, Washington, and continued her advocacy. In 2000, with her son, King County Executive Ron Sims, she co-launched the Healthy Aging Partnership, an information and assistance line for the elderly at the Central Area Senior Center in King County. Lydia Sims died on June 23, 2012. Research more thid great american and share with your babise. Make it a champion day!
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March 10, 1836 – Witherspoon Street Church
GM – FBF – "For we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." — 2 Corinthians 5:1
Remember – "Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, Rejoice." – Philippians 4:4
Today in our History – March 10, 1836 – Organized in 1836, the Witherspoon Street Church is one of the oldest African American Presbyterian congregations in New Jersey. On March 10, 1836, 90 out of 131former African American members of the Nassau Presbyterian Church were released from the congregation to form their own church. Nassau had just suffered a fire that destroyed their church. Although slaves and indentured servants were allowed to attend Nassau Presbyterian, they suffered much racism and were forced to sit in the small balcony. Many of them saw this as the opportunity to establish a church they controlled.
The original church name was The First Presbyterian Church of Colour of Princeton. After the first official communion was held in 1840, the church was referred to as Third Presbyterian Church, and later the Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church for Colored People in Princeton. The congregation included enslaved, indentured, and free people of color.
Elizabeth "Betsy" Stockton was born enslaved to the Stockton Family in Princeton; she attended Nassau Presbyterian Church and was instrumental in establishing the new church. Betsy Stockton earned her freedom at the age of twenty and traveled to Hawaii as a missionary. She returned to Princeton in 1835 and helped found the First Presbyterian Church of Colour. In 1837 Stockton began teaching African American children in a public school and later established a Sabbath School at what is now the Witherspoon Street Church. A stained glass window in the church is dedicated to Stockton and her work in the church.
In October of 1879, Rev. William Drew Robeson was installed as pastor. Along with his wife, Maria Louisa Bustill of Philadelphia, the Robesons moved into the church parsonage and began their family. That parsonage was the place of birth of twentieth century singer and activist Paul Robeson and is now called The Robeson House. As a former slave, Rev. Robeson fought for the rights of African Americans. His preaching on racial equality was eventually deemed "too radical" by Presbyterian Synod leaders and he was forced to resign in 1901.
Throughout the decades, the Witherspoon Church has been rooted in supporting the community through Emancipation, Reconstruction, two World Wars and the Civil Rights Movement. In the 1950s, Witherspoon Street Church began to become more inclusive of its changing community, embracing all from every ethnic background. Rev. Benjamin Anderson headed efforts to build Princeton's first integrated housing project and helped restaurant and hotel workers to unionize. In 2003 the congregation installed its first female pastor, Rev. M. Muriel Burrows.
In 2015 The General Assembly of the Presbytery issued a formal apology to the congregation of Witherspoon Street Church for the unjust removal of Rev. Robeson which had resulted in loss of membership, the sale of the church parsonage, and financial decline. The church repurchased the parsonage in 2005, partly through a grant of $173,000 given by the Synod of the Northeast. Today the church has a racially diverse congregation that has a stong focus and foundation on being stewards of peace and racial reconciliation. When in the Trenton, NJ area, visit historical Princeton and the famous Witherspoon Street Presbytery Church and bring your babies. Make it a champion day!
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March 8, 1954- Mattwilda Dobbs
GM – FBF – "I was so afraid for myself if I would have married" Martin L.King. -Mattiwilda Dobbs
Remember – " Music that I sing is not for the masses but most for the people who enjoy Opera" – Mattiwilda Dobbs
Today in our History – March 8, – The First black to preform at New York's Town Hall on March 8, 1954.
Mattiwilda Dobbs (July 11, 1925 – December 8, 2015) was an African-American coloratura soprano and one of the first black singers to enjoy a major international career in opera. She was the first black singer to perform at La Scala in Italy, the first black woman to receive a long-term performance contract at the Metropolitan Opera, New York and the first black singer to play a lead role at the San Francisco Opera.
Dobbs was born in Atlanta, Georgia, one of six daughters of John and Irene Dobbs, who were leaders in the state's African-American community. She began piano lessons at the age of seven, and sang in community and church choirs.
Dobbs attended Spelman College where she studied home economics and considered becoming a fashion designer. Her teachers encouraged her to study music, however, and she began to study voice, graduating with a degree in Spanish and music in 1946. Following her graduation, she moved to New York City and studied with German soprano Lotte Leonard while completing a Master's degree in Spanish at Columbia University.
Dobbs won a number of scholarships, including the Marian Anderson Award in 1947, and a John Hay Whitney Fellowship. The funds from these awards enabled her to move to Europe in 1950 and pursue her studies there, notably with Pierre Bernac.
Dobbs initially performed in Europe as a concert recitalist, however after winning the International Music Competition in Geneva, Switzerland, in 1951, she went on to sing at the major festivals and opera houses throughout the continent. She made her professional operatic debut at the Holland Festival, as the Nightingale in Stravinsky's The Nightingale, in 1952. She made her debut at the Glyndebourne Festival, as Zerbinetta in Ariadne auf Naxos, in 1953. Her success at this festival led to a performance contract at London's Covent Garden from 1953 to 1958.
Her La Scala debut in 1953 was at the invitation of conductor Herbert von Karajan. Dobbs performed the role of Elvira in L'italiana in Algeri, which also marked the first time a black artist sang in that opera house. In a review of her performance, the British magazine Opera called her "the outstanding coloratura of her generation".
She made her debut at the Royal Opera House in London, as the Woodbird in Siegfried, in 1953. She also appeared at the Paris Opéra, the Vienna State Opera, and at the opera houses of Hamburg and Stockholm. In 1954, she sang before Queen Elizabeth II and the King and Queen of Sweden at Covent Garden Theatre.
In the 1960s Dobbs continued to perform in Europe, particularly in Sweden, where she lived with her husband. Her successful, high-profile European career is considered significant in setting an example to younger black female singers such as Leontyne Price, Shirley Verrett, Jessye Norman and Kathleen Battle.
Her American Dobbs sang the role of Zerbinetta again in her first appearance in the United States at New York's Town Hall on March 8, 1954 and received great critical acclaim.Next was a recital with the Little Orchestra Society, in New York City, in 1954. She made her Metropolitan Opera debut, as Gilda in Rigoletto, on November 9, 1956. In a review of her performance, Carl Van Vechten wrote that Dobbs' was "glorious … a warm and brilliant coloratura, and the best Gilda in my experience." Although African-American singer Marian Anderson had performed at the Met the previous year, Dobbs was the first African-American to be offered a long-term contract by the Met. In eight seasons, she performed 29 times, including Zerbinetta, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Olympia in The Tales of Hoffmann, Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, and Oscar in Un ballo in maschera. She also appeared at the San Francisco Opera in 1955, where she was the first African-American to play a lead role.
Following the example set by other African-American performers, Dobbs refused to perform for segregated audiences. She later stated that this hurt her career as she declined offers of work in the southern states. When the Atlanta Municipal Auditorium was de-segregated in 1961, Dobbs was the first person to sing to an integrated audience in the city. After de-segregation, she performed in Atlanta in a series of operas produced by Blanche Thebom.
Dobbs retired from performing in 1974, and began teaching at the University of Texas, where she was the first African-American on the faculty. She continued her teaching career as professor of voice at Howard University in Washington, D.C., before retiring to Arlington County, Virginia.
In 1989 Dobbs was elected to the board of directors of the Metropolitan Opera.
Dobbs's coloratura soprano was praised for its freshness and agility, as well as tonal beauty, and was considered an ideal voice for sound recording. However, she can be heard in relatively few recordings, as she spent her early career in Europe. When she returned to the United States in 1954 Roberta Peters had become a top soprano recording artist.
Dobbs's notable recordings include Die Entführung aus dem Serail (in English), opposite Nicolai Gedda (who was born the same day as she was, July 11, 1925) and conducted by Yehudi Menuhin, Les pêcheurs de perles conducted by René Leibowitz, and a recital of opera arias and songs, released in 1998 by Testament Records. She sang both Olympia and Antonia in a complete recording of The Tales of Hoffmann featuring Leopold Simoneau and Heinz Rehfuss, and conducted by Pierre-Michel Le Conte, which was issued in 1958 by Epic in stereo in the USA and by Concert Hall in Europe, and reissued on CD in 2008. She also recorded the title role of Zaide under Leibowitz in Paris in 1952, and excerpts from Rigoletto alongside Rolando Panerai.
In 1954, the King and Queen of Sweden awarded Dobbs the Order of the North Star.
In 1979, Dobbs received an honorary doctorate of fine arts from Spelman College.
In 1980, the Library of Congress held an exhibition on her life.
In 1983, Dobbs received the James Weldon Johnson Award in Fine Arts from the Atlanta National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Martin Luther King, Sr. wanted his son Martin Luther King, Jr. to marry Dobbs, as her father was an active civil rights activist and a friend of his.
Dobbs was married twice. Her first husband, Spaniard Luis Rodriguez, died of a liver ailment in June 1954, fourteen months after their wedding. In late 1957 she married Bengt Janzon, a Swedish newspaperman and public relations executive. Janzon died in 1997. Dobbs was the aunt of the first black Mayor of Atlanta, Maynard Jackson and sang at his inauguration in January 1978.Dobbs died from cancer on December 8, 2015 at her home in Atlanta at the age of 90. Research more about this great American abd share with your babies. Make it a champion day!
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March 6, 1972-Zoe Dusanne
GM- FBF – Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. – Zoë Dusanne
Remember – "The NAACP in Seatle needs a new vision and I want to help them travel down that road with all of the recources that I can gather" – Zoe Dusanne
Today in our History – March 6, 1972 – the Seattle Art Museum honored Zoë Dusanne with an exhibition of contemporary art.
Described by those who knew her as exotic, flamboyant, and colorful, Zoë Dusanne, was an art dealer and collector who opened Seattle's first professional modern-art gallery, the Zoë Dusanne Gallery, in 1950 and who worked tirelessly to both introduce modern art to a northwest audience and to promote northwest art and artists to a larger international art community.
Dusanne was born Zola Graves on March 24, 1884 in Kansas to Letitia Denny and John Henry Graves, a stonemason. Although she was self-taught with respect to modern art, her artistic bent was nourished early in life by her parents. When the Graves family lived in Iowa at the turn of the 20th century, for example, Letitia took the young Zoë on summer trips to Chicago to attend the theater and to visit the Art Institute of Chicago.
In 1903 Zoë spent one year at Oberlin College followed by a semester at the University of Illinois, Urbana. It was during this time that Zoë met her first husband, George Young, whom she married in 1904. The union produced Zoë's only child, Theodosia, in 1909. By 1912 Zoë was separated and decided to follow her parents to Seattle. A divorce from George followed after her arrival in Seattle. Zoë's second marriage, in 1919 to Dr. Frederick Boston, lasted only a few years.
In 1928 Zoë and then teenaged Theodosia left Seattle for New York. Sometime during her residence in New York, Zoë began using the last name Dusanne. While living in Greenwich Village, Zoë's passion for collecting modern art began in earnest. At the height of the Great Depression Zoë found that artists were the first to feel the impact of hard times, and often sold their works at a fraction of their earlier value. Little by little during these years Zoë amassed a collection of modern art which she brought back to Seattle in 1942.
In 1947 at age 63, Zoë built a home overlooking Seattle's Lake Union that was specifically designed to double as an art gallery, and on November 12, 1950, Dusanne opened her collection to the public. From the mid-1940s until the late-1950s, Zoë was a force to be reckoned with as she worked to introduce modern art to a Pacific Northwest audience and to promote northwest art internationally. She sold and donated her own works to the Seattle Art Museum (SAM), and facilitated the donation of many others. She lent works to the Henry Art Gallery and to SAM for exhibition. At Zoë's urging, Life magazine featured the four artists who would later became known as the "mystical" painters of the "Northwest School"—Mark Tobey, Kenneth Callahan, Guy Anderson, and Morris Graves—in its September 28, 1953 issue. The Life magazine article propelled the "Northwest School" to national prominence. Zoë also traveled to Europe persuading Peggy Guggenheim to donate a Jackson Pollock to SAM.
Despite her influence within the greater Seattle community, Dusanne could not stop the 1958 demolition of her home and gallery necessitated by the building of the Seattle Freeway. In 1959 she reopened in a new location but was unable to recapture the luster and glory of her original gallery. In 1964 she closed the gallery permanently spending the remaining few years of her life with her daughter. In 1977, five years after her death on March 6, 1972, the Seattle Art Museum honored Zoë Dusanne with an exhibition of contemporary art that included works by many of the artists whom Zoë had promoted. It was a fitting way to honor a woman whose influence on culture in Seattle was considerable. Research more About this great woman and share with your bibies. Make it a champion day!
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March 3, 1886- Robert Francis Flemming Jr.
GM – FBF – " Who would have thought that sailors could be in a boat under the water, what will they think of next" – Robert Francis Flemming
Remember – "I know that they had forms of guitars in the old days, like in Africa but my guitar has what they call a aacoustic guitar. I just know that the sound can be controled" – Robert Francis Flemming
Today in our History – March 3, 1886 – A Black Man Invents The First Aacoustic guitar. Robert Francis Flemming Jr. (July 4, 1839 – February 23, 1919) was an African-American inventor and Union sailor in the American Civil War. He was the first crew member aboard the USS Housatonic to spot the H.L. Hunley before it sank the USS Housatonic. The sinking of USS Housatonic is renowned as the first sinking of an enemy ship in combat by a submarine.
Robert Flemming was working in New York City as a marble cutter when he enlisted in the United States Navy on May 14, 1863. He was rated as Landsman (rank), the equivalent of the current naval rating of seaman recruit. His first posting was to the USS Wyoming (1859) the following June; he was present when the sloop engaged the naval forces of the Japanese Empire at the Naval battle of Shimonoseki on July 16 of that year.
The following October, Flemming transferred to the sloop of war USS Housatonic (1861), which was sent to join the blockade of Southern seaports as part of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron. On the evening of February 17, 1864, Flemming was on watch when he noticed a strange object in the water about 400 feet off the starboard bow. He alerted the officer of the guard, who dismissed the object as a log. "Queer-looking log," Flemming replied. Taking a closer look, he soon realized that the "log" wasn't floating with the tide, but was actually coming at a high rate of speed toward the Housatonic. Shouting that there was a torpedo approaching the ship, Flemming alerted the rest of the crew, who started to get the Housatonic under way. However, it was too late; there was an explosion and, within five minutes, the Housatonic sank in 25 feet of water with a loss of five crewmen. The crew immediately began climbing the rigging or entering life boats as the sloop began to sink; once it hit bottom, however, the masts and rigging were still above the water, and Flemming and others hung on for forty-five minutes until help arrived.
Flemming finished his naval service on the gunboat USS E. B. Hale after June 1865 and subsequently returned to Massachusetts, living and working in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Boston, Massachusetts where he went into business as a guitar manufacturer and music teacher.
Flemming invented a guitar he called the "Euphonica" that he believed would produce a louder and more resonant sound than a traditional guitar. The U.S. Patent Office granted Flemming a patent (no. 338,727) on March 3,1886. He also received a Canadian patent (no. 26,398) on April 5,1887. Flemming then went into business for himself, building and demonstrating his musical instruments from a storefront on Washington Street in Boston.
After 1900, Robert Flemming retired to his home in Melrose, Massachusetts where he continued to give lessons and perform at various functions. In 1907, he composed a "National Funeral Hymn" dedicated to the Grand Army of the Republic. A member of the Grand Army of the Republic Post no. 30 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Robert Flemming died in February 1919. He is buried in Wyoming Cemetery in Melrose, MA. Research more about this great American and share with your babies. Make it a champion day!
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Raking in 211 points from the 49-member jury, the Corvette virtually swept the competition—and for good reason. While the other two competitors are spectacular cars, they just couldn't amass the votes to win.
Packing up to 460 horsepower and offering a sub four-second 0-to-60 sprint, the 2014 Corvette is a performance beast. For a mere $52,000, which isn't chump change, but still cheap, you can have a car that performs against competitors twice its price.
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In the previous-generation Corvette, the interior was a hard sell for many people. When compared to its competitors, the Corvette had the interior of a car 10 years older than it actually was. Cheap plastic pieces were everywhere. The seats were lackluster, and many had a hard time justifying spending money on a car that felt cheap on the inside, regardless of performance.
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Q: how to handle json data in javascript I am using worldweatheronline api to access weather data,when a request is send it response by sending data in json.I want to display the weather information in html page

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A: You can't use the JSON.parse that way. At first you must make a request to that API, then get a response and finally use the parse JSON.parse(response)
if you are interested I can help you to manage this using jQuery to request the json.

A: Check this.
var apikey = jQuery('[name="key"]').val();
var q= jQuery('[name="q"]').val();
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add this line into the head tag to include jQuery
<script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.2/jquery.min.js"></script>

A: Use ajax method to get the data from openweathermap api.
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In less than 6 hours, Marvel's Avengers: Infinity War broken Fandango's record for best-selling superhero movie in the first 24 hours of presales, according to Fandango.
Advanced tickets for Infinity War went up for sale on the movie ticketing service at 6 am PST/9 am EST Friday in parallel to the second trailer and in short order surpassed the previous top two record holders, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice and Black Panther.
· 94% are excited to see different franchise characters ("Guardians," "Avengers," etc.) meeting one another for the first time.
· 92% see "Infinity War" as the culmination of all of the MCU films before it.
· 87% have seen all of the MCU movies.
· 71% saw "Black Panther" on the big screen.
One thing is for sure, fans are champing at the bit to see the Avengers Assemble to face the Mad Titan, Thanos.


This June 18 the board of the Cultural Public Benefit Organisation Friends of MacDonald • The Dutch Connection decided to grant the Ranald MacDonald Award 2018 to the non-fiction debut The Dawn of Eurasia (Penguin, 2018) by Bruno Maçães.
The Portuguese political scientist from Harvard, former secretary of state of European affairs in Portugal, teacher at universities in Berlin and Beijing and senior counselor in London wrote a mind-changing, if not game-changing, work about the notion of Eurasia.
The press release about the 2018 award is to be found here.
A review of The Dawn of Eurasia by Gideon Rachman in the Financial Times is to be found here.
Frederik Schodt has sent us a report on his stay in Amsterdam around October 11, 2016. We are honoured to have the right to publish his text here and now.
Please read Schodt's account here (pdf).
To our regret, Ernst Homburg has decided, for reasons of his own, not to continue his chairmanship of 'Friends of MacDonald • The Dutch Connection'.
We are very pleased to have found Arie Rip prepared to take the chair on a temporary basis.
On October 11, 2017 the foundation will therefore again be able to award a prize to the true, good and beautiful debut of a writer or artist providing an unexpected outlook on the relations between Asia, Europe and North America.
Counting on his friendly support, we are wishing Ernst all the best, and are giving a warm welcome to Arie.
Hollands Diep, publishers of In het licht van wat wij weten by Zia Haider Rahman, are proud to have a number of books in their fund which are worthy of an award. And rightly so. The hope of the board of FOM NL is for our 'small but fine' award to continue to appear in such lists.
From the very start of our cooperation The 'Nederlands-Japanse Vereniging' has been very supportive. And they still are.


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JC Rivera Speaks Truth Through Art
by Veronica Haglund
JC Rivera
His bear symbol speaks to survival and life in the urban wild.
Chicago-based Puerto Rican muralist JC Rivera has an unmistakable trademark character: a beaten-up, boxing glove-wearing bear. Known as The Bear Champ, the gruff-looking bear speaks to the fighting spirit and survival instincts JC Rivera has identified with since he dropped out of college in Puerto Rico to work in the States.
"I wanted to be a boxer growing up," JC Rivera remembers. "I was a boxing fan my whole life. I still am. It was, like, 'Oh, I painted this bear that symbolizes me wanting to do something like that.' I created the bear like that, a boxing bear, beat-up. He was smoking a cigarette at the beginning—tired about all the punches in life, but still going. It's been through a lot, but it was still going."
JC Rivera saw his experience reflected in the eye-catching, graffiti-inspired character. Growing up in Puerto Rico and leaving for the States in his early 20s was no easy feat. "Hey, I'm 30-something now, almost 40, so my whole life I was trying to be an artist, trying to do something better and come up with something creative I could be," he says. "Be something. Be proud of who I am."
JC Rivera was born in Ponce, Puerto Rico among artists. "My grandpa was an artist. My dad was an artist. My older brother was an artist," says Rivera. "But they actually didn't make a living." As a passionate and curious kid, he began drawing on his own, namely sketches of Michael Jordan.
It wasn't until he uprooted from Ponce to make a go of things in Orlando, Florida that he finally began making money off his art. He lucked out when buying an old Mac at a nearby pawn shop, Adobe Photoshop already installed. "I started playing with it, and I started my book, drew digital logos, and I put [together] my portfolio of made-up logos," he said. "People started reaching out to me, 'Hey, can you do my logo?' I was charging, like, really cheap. $20 to do a logo." Then, JC Rivera realized he could do what generations of his family members couldn't do on the island: "Oh, I can do this, maybe, as a living."
In Chicago, he found his way into the tight-knit street art community. "When I started doing it, we were a few people doing it, but now it got bigger and bigger," he says. "Now, there's people doing stuff for Nike, a lot of different companies." According to Rivera, there's a collegiality among Chicago artists that doesn't exist in New York or Los Angeles. "There's room for everybody, and we help each other. I try to help other people, and other people come to me and I say, 'Hey, let's collaborate just for fun, too.' Everybody's doing their own thing and we come up together to have fun."
After a few years of creating things for others, JC Rivera wanted to create something for himself. Eventually, he resurrected an old sketch of the bear, and it's become a part of his work ever since, even if it took some time for gallery-goers to catch up. "I did a show, twenty paintings at a gallery," JC Rivera says. "People came around and everybody would be, like, 'What the fuck is this?' People would look at the bear and be like, 'What is it?'"
"I took all the paintings and I put them in the corner of my apartment and just like, not giving up," said JC Rivera. "It was frustrating, people not seeing my work for what it was until I started painting murals." JC Rivera moved into mural work only seven years ago, when he started painting with a graffiti crew. Over time and with persistence, things picked up. "I started posting on social media and people were, like, 'Oh, I like that bear. Can you paint my garage?' I went from painting garages to doing commercial work."
Like JC Rivera, the bear has had its own journey from small, humble sketches and unloved acrylic paintings to giant murals, even making an appearance on a pizza box. JC Rivera recounts the serendipitous moment when Parlor Pizza, a Chicago-area restaurant, reached out to him to paint a mural. "I said [that] the week before, I did the bear holding a slice of pizza, eating it," he remembers. He sold them on the idea of doing something more with the character. Now, according to Rivera, Parlor Pizza plans to take The Bear Champ from their pizza boxes to "stickers, shirts and everything." It leads to more local bear sightings in the wild, and spreads the word about Rivera's work. He even envisions giving the bear its own animated series someday.
Much of Rivera's local celebrity started with regular posting on social media, leading to over 35,000 followers on Instagram. "It was just posting and just being me," Rivera said of his social media game. "I don't really curate anything. I reply to most of my DMs when I get a chance, and I try to talk to everybody. I try to reply to whatever I can, post something that people can relate to."
Fortunately for the man behind the Bear Champ, the secret ingredient was being himself. "I'm me. I'm myself."
He has made one modification to the bear's design over the years, however.
"Now, he doesn't smoke a cigarette, because I have kids," Rivera laughs. "I grew up a little bit and it's different. I put a band-aid on his head now because that's the healing process of, 'Hey, went through all that fight, and now it's the good times.'"
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Tonight's Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. is a rebroadcast from October, but we still have some tasty AoS news. We have a big love for the expanding and intertwining Marvel Universe here at SciFi Mafia, the opening segment for the AoS/Thor crossover being one of the best bits of the TV series so far.
Zap2It was able to get a little bit more from Chloe Bennet, who plays hacker Skye on the series: "It probably might feel even more like [a crossover] because of why [Lady Sif] comes to Earth… You'll have to wait and see. I get nervous. [Marvel] probably put a bug on me." Cool.
In other AoS news, Stan Lee will be making a more-than-cameo appearance on the next new episode to air, February 4's "T.R.A.C.K.S.", and Bill Paxton (Edge of Tomorrow, Twister) will be joining for at least four episodes, beginning around the end of February, according to TV Guide. He'll be playing "a rough-and-tumble former cohort of Agent Coulson [Clark Gregg] with a little bit of attitude and cigar-smoking swagger," according to executive producer Jed Whedon. Sounds like sort of an Adam Baldwin-type character.
Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., starring Clark Gregg, Brett Dalton, Ming-na Wen, Iain De Caestecker, Elizabeth Henstridge, and Chloe Bennet, airs Tuesdays at 8/7c, on ABC.


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Blair Witch – Insanity Trailer – Gamescom 2019
Right off the floor at Gamescom 2019, Bloober Team has a new story trailer for the upcoming first-person psychological horror title, Blair Witch. Players will come back to the woods featured in the original Blair Witch film. This new trailer gives a peek behind the true story of Blair Witch, with some never-before-seen gameplay, flashbacks, and visions that plauge Ellis in the Black Hills Forest. This game, that will support 4k visuals, on Xbox One X and PC, will launch worldwide on August 30th, 2019.
Preorders have begun, and those who pre-order the game for 29.99 will automatically be upgraded to the PC Deluxe Edition for free (for the Steam edition). This includes the Blair Witch game original soundtrack and 'The Art of Blair Witch'. The Deluxe Edition will also be available to purchase for $34.99 on Steam once it is released.
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15 events found on Ouranos Too's timeline.
Built by the Italian yard Codecasa, the 41m Ouranos Too is a full displacement luxury motor yacht. She has a steel hull and aluminium superstructure. Ouranos Too has a 8.5m beam and a 2.25m draft. This adds up to a gross tonnage of 358 tones.Powered by twin diesel engines of 2,285 hp each, the yacht has a maximum speed of 17 knots and a cruising speed of 15 knots. With a fuel capacity of 82,600l and a water capacity of 11,140l, the yacht can accommodate 12 guests in 6 cabins. She cruises with a crew of 8.


09/16/2018 Indonesia (International Christian Concern) – Growing radicalism in Indonesia has prompted the Indonesian military (TNI) to establish an anti-terror unit, yet human rights groups and observers are concerned that the expansion of the armed forces' role could lead to a human rights abuse.
Officials said the military is planning to revive a special unit deployed three years ago to fight the Eastern Indonesia Mujahideen (MIT), a militant group tied to the so-called Islamic State (IS) in Central Sulawesi province. Currently they await the Ministry of Defense to draft a presidential decree needed for its authorization.
Indonesia was swept by a wave of terror attacks in May. Within one week, suicide bombers targeted churches and police stations in Surabaya and took with them dozens of lives. In response, the government took measures to amend anti-terrorism laws and sentence the leader of JAD, an IS-linked terrorist group to death.
Activists argue that terrorism is a law enforcement issue, not a military matter and should be handled by the police. "Any presidential regulation on the role of the TNI in counter-terrorism should explicitly state that any military involvement should be auxiliary to the police," said Al Araf, the director of Impartial, a local human rights group.


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Danska Fall
Simlangsdalen, Halland County, Sweden
Europe >> Sweden >> Halland County >> Halmstad Municipality, Simlangsdalen
About Danska Fall
Difficulty: 2
Hiking Distance: about 2km round trip
Suggested Time: 1 hour
Date first visited: 2019-07-29
Date last visited: 2019-07-29
Waterfall Latitude: 56.70662
Waterfall Longitude: 13.13681
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Danska Fall (I've also seen it called Danska Fallen and Danska Fallet) turned out to be the last waterfall we visited on our epic 2019 Scandinavian Trip.
It turned out to sit in one of Halland County's most visited nature reserves.
This waterfall ran on the Assman River, which was said to have a cumulative drop of 36m from its source to the bottom of its drop.
However, I'm more apt to believe that it was more like 10-15m if you're only concerned about just the main drops of the waterfalls.
In any case, I was fascinated by the reason why the waterfall got its name as Danska meant "Danish" in the Swedish language.
I had read after the fact that during the Scanian War between Sweden and Denmark in the late 1670s, a defeated Danish army fled upstream of the Fylleån River.
The Swedes eventually chased this army onto a poorly-built bridge, where it collapsed and drowned several of the Danish army members over the waterfall.
Looking down over the brink of Danska Fall
So while the history hinted at the possible torrent that Danska Fall could possess, I'd imagine this would be the case during high snowmelt periods in the late Spring and early Summer.
Since we showed up at the very end of July, the falls took on a more segmented appearance.
The Danska Fall Trail
As for experiencing the falls, we went on a short 1km trail (2km round trip) that was gently climbing and well-signed.
Even though the trail was unpaved, it was suitable for strollers in good weather.
Julie and Tahia following a wide open trail leading straight to the Danska Fall
There were trail junctions where we could have extended the hike in to a longer loop of roughly 4.6km in total, but we only did the shorter trail for the just the waterfall.
In the first 200m of the trail, we walked past a mostly concealed lake where private cabins and hidden shore spots allowed for those in the know to enjoy the lake better.
We also encountered one of the trail junctions here, but we kept straight ahead to remain on the shorter trail to the falls.
Beyond the trail junction, we eventually ascended to an open pasture where we saw cows grazing and we even saw some kind of a composting toilet.
Traversing through a pasture on the way to Danska Fall
Roughly 800m from the trail junction, we eventually get past the pasture and returned to the forest where we walked along the viewing area of Danska Fall as well as checked out the view from its brink.
When all was said and done, we had spent an hour away from the car.
However, the humidity really crept up on us at this waterfall so we were still a hot and sticky mess when we returned to the car.
Danska Fall was in the municipality of Halmstad. The municipality belonged to the county of Halland. For information or inquiries about the area as well as current conditions, you may want to try the local municipality website.
Route to this Waterfall
Danska Fall was located just south of Simlångsdalen, which was east of the city of Halmstad (which was the center of the municipality).
Looking back towards the local road that provided access to this car park for the Danska Fall Nature Reserve
From the E20 and Route 25 junction in the east end of Halmstad, we drove east on the Route 25 for about 15km (towards Simlångsdalen) before turning right onto a local road (signed for "Naturreservat Danska Fall" or Tönnersjö).
We then followed this road for about 550m before turning left onto another local road (another naturreservat sign pointed in this direction here).
Finally, we followed this local road for about 700m to the signposted turnoff and car park on the left for Danska Fall.
Overall, this drive took us about 15 minutes.
The busy car park for Danska Fall
For geographic context, Simlångsdalen was 19km (under 30 minutes drive) east of Halmstad, 55km (over 30 minutes drive) west of Ljungby, 150km (about 90 minutes drive) north of Malmö, 153km (over 90 minutes drive) south of Gothenburg, 148km (over 2 hours drive) northwest of Kristianstad, 164km (under 2 hours drive) south of Jönköping, 131km (over 2 hours drive with a ferry crossing) northeast of Hillerød, 194km (about 2 hours drive) north of Copenhagen, Denmark, and 482km (over 4.5 hours drive) southwest of Stockholm.
Video pretty much covering every viewing angle for the various segments of the falls
Upstream to downstream sweep from right around the brink of the falls
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Danska Fall was a fairly close waterfall in Sweden to the international bridge linking Copenhagen, Denmark. Copenhagen was a world-class city with lots of charm, especially the OG of amusement parks at the Tivoli Gardens, which apparently inspired Walt Disney
Danska Fall was about a couple hours drive, including a ferry ride, from Hillerød, Denmark, which was where the impressive Frederiksborg Castle was located
Danska Fall was one of the stops we made on the very long drive to get from Copenhagen to Nynäshamn, where we caught a ferry ride to the charming medieval town of Visby on Gotland Island
While on Gotland, we managed to drive out to Lergrav after visiting Fårö (though the wait for the ferry really sucked) and experienced an interesting natural arch like this one
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NICK JOHNSON scored it 29-27. ROB CARLSON scored it 29-28. TODD NIELSEN scored it 29-27.
NICK JOHNSON scored it 29-28. ROB CARLSON scored it 29-28. TODD NIELSEN scored it 29-28.
NICK JOHNSON scored it 30-27. ROB CARLSON scored it 30-27. TODD NIELSEN scored it 30-26.
NICK JOHNSON scored it 30-27. ROB CARLSON scored it 30-27. TODD NIELSEN scored it 28-29.


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publication date: Monday, January 4, 2021 (part of Winter 2021)
clue: One of the youngest-ever Best Actor Oscar nominees is a prodigal son of French descent.
explanation: Chalamet was nominated for an Oscar at 22 years old for Call Me By Your Name. He has been acclaimed for his theatrical role in Prodigal Son. more…
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, LaVonne Lemler, Samir Mehta, Chris Lemler, Richard Slominsky, Denise Sawicki, and Erik Bates
Jonah Hauer-King
Disney must have paid a princely sum to hire this actor fresh off his roles in A Dog's Way Home and Ashes in the Snow. Who's the king? Go »
His films have concerned Facebook, zombies, stage magic, divorce, the CIA, a theme park, and Superman. Go »
After meeting inglorious ends in Game of Thrones, James Bond films, Jack Ryan films, the Lord of the Rings films, and many others, he announced in 2019 that he would stop dying for his art. Go »
She made a killing after a movie about a killer, making wonderful movies about a particular woman. Go »
One of Hollywood's earliest "scream queens" is remembered for one of the biggest height differences between her and her co-lead in film history. Go »
This former Miss World hit it big in Bollywood before coming to the United States to star as an FBI agent who becomes suspected of terrorism and a rich businesswoman whose plans are thwarted by red-clad lifeguards. Go »
Top Ten Streakers (of All Time)
274 consecutive goos solved once
95 consecutive goos solved once
Steve Dunn


ABC has released the first official photo from "The Conners," the spinoff to its revived-then-canceled comedy hit "Roseanne," which began production today on the Warner Brothers lot. The new Roseanne Barr-less series is set to premiere October 16th.
Series regulars John Goodman, Laurie Metcalf, Sara Gilbert, Michael Fishman and Lecy Goranson are seen alongside kids Jayden Rey, Ames McNamara and Emma Kenney in the show with said kids now upped to series regulars.
The network hasn't revealed how Roseanne's absence will be dealt with, beyond a "sudden turn of events," though earlier this week co-star Goodman suggested her character would be dead. The new show has the Conners facing the daily struggles of working-class American life in Lanford in a way they never have before.


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Michael Crichton is of course famous for authoring a book that correctly predicted the Jurassic Park disaster before it happened and long before they made a movie about it. While the scientists were busy in their labs playing with dinosaur jeans, a science author who understood science better than any scientist ever could predicted the theory that life always finds a way and that velociraptors would learn how to use door handles.
As soon as Neil deGrasse Tyson mocked the idea the Earth was flat I knew the geometry of the Earth to be in doubt. A quick google confirmed my suspicion and I have since discovered dozens of bloggers out there documenting numerous problems with the official theory. If there really was overwhelming evidence that the Earth was round why would Neil deGrasse Tyson be mocking the idea that it was flat?
The consensus, AKA the official story, can never be trusted, because trust no-one. Always suspect They are out to get you. That way if they are you at least weren't fooled. That's why I will never trust textbooks. Science textbooks and history textbooks in particular are full of official stories written by official writers. Only when textbooks are written by the uneducated (ie free thinking) bloggers of the internet with ideas that scientists openly deride will I take textbooks seriously.
At the center of every university is a tower made of ivory. These towers are probably in excess of 80 feet tall. Question: from such a height why haven't academics noticed the lack of curvature of the Earth? Just a question, nothing more. Unlike the Earth the best arguments are circular, that way there are no loose ends.
The Oxford Dictionary proclaims evidence to be "The available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid"
I have made the font of that quote quite small because I don't want to honor such arrogance with any sort of presence. Who writes the dictionaries? Officials from Oxford who proclaim their book-bound definitions of words are true by consensus. Dictionaries, like libraries are synonymous with "education", the concept that truth can be learned rather than imagined.
In other words the more difficult data is to obtain or obscure the source, the greater the weight of evidence it provides for alternative theories.
Perhaps global temperature changes are caused by steam pipes, or undersea volcanoes, could cloud experiments at CERN have opened up a black hole from all that science stuff they keep doing with colanders? It makes sense that a black hole would absorb more sunlight. Could that explain the minuscule amount of warming of which there is no evidence for? What if there never was a global temperature because you can't average temperature over a globe? What if the concept of averaging is number fraud? What if there can't be a global temperature because the world isn't a globe? That might explain why scientists are so keen on us accepting the world is round, because their climate models are programmed that way and they are too lazy to correct them. Sometimes there is a second shooter, and sometimes it is just a ploy to take away our guns.


From appearances in Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince to playing Spence in BBC's Casualty, Sasha Ivanov in The National Theatre's Every Good Boy Deserves Favour, Howard in the Old Vic's production of Inherit The Wind and Master, MacDuff in Macbeth at both the Guildgud Theatre and Chichester Festival Theatre, Shea has had some diverse roles.
Most recently he appeared in Ostrich Boys playing the role of Ross at the Belgrade Theatre, Coventry.
Shea also does a lot of voice work.


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Topic: Lunar conjunction
lunar mare
lunar module
Lunar phase
Lunar Society
Apollo Lunar Module
Lunar Rover
lunar month
Lunar Prospector
Lunar geologic timescale
It is based upon both lunar months and a solar cycle (which defines its years) and so is a lunisolar calendar.
The Hebrew month is tied to an estimate of the average time taken by the Moon to cycle from lunar conjunction to lunar conjunction.
Twelve lunar months are about 354 days while the solar year is about 365 days so an extra lunar month is added every two or three years in accordance with a 19-year cycle of 235 lunar months (12 regular months every year plus 7 extra or embolismic months every 19 years).
publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/h/he/hebrew_calendar_1.html (1362 words)
Lunar conjunction - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A lunar conjunction is the moment when the earth, moon and sun, in that order, are approximately in a straight line.
(See conjunction (astronomy) for a precise definition.) It is sometimes referred to as the new moon, though traditionally new moon refers to the first visible crescent of the moon.
The period of time between two lunar conjunctions is the synodic month, which is a basic unit in most lunar and lunisolar calendars such as the Islamic calendar and the Hebrew calendar (known in that context as the molad in Hebrew).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lunar_conjunction (149 words)
Solar Eclipse April 19, 2004, and Lunar Eclipse May 4, 2004 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The Lunar Eclipse of May 4 originated on May 10, 1427 from the Southern Hemisphere and this is its 33rd eclipse of the series.
Since the Lunar Eclipse Moon was in Scorpio, we could unconsciously be drawn to the retention of past hurts, guilt feelings or jealousy without understanding the "whys" or "whens" associated with these feelings.
While Mercury is forming that Conjunction to Saturn in the original Solar chart, it is also forming a Conjunction to Venus in the original Lunar chart.
www.lunarliving.org /saros119.shtml (1026 words)
Lunar Prospector Mission (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Its purpose was to map the elemental abundances of the lunar surface.
Used in conjunction with the Electron Reflectometer, it helped locate and measure the strength of the weak localized magnetic fields on the lunar surface.
In conjunction with the Magnetometer instrument, it helped locate and measure the strength of the weak localized magnetic fields on the lunar surface.
www.lpi.usra.edu /expmoon/prospector/prospector.html (1013 words)
To be sure, the lunar geologic environment is very different from the terrestrial, and the possible consequences of the Moon's low oxidation state and waterlessness for generating useful concentrations of elements must be addressed.
The dielectric constant of the lunar regolith can potentially be estimated from the ratio of the backscatter in the local vertical and horizontal directions for areas where the radar signal is dominated by volume scattering.
Input parameters to the model are the radar wavelength, the radar incidence angle, and the dielectric parameters of the pyroclastic layer and the regolith substrate.
www.lpi.usra.edu /meetings/programs/lratwwa.txt (17685 words)
Stellar Highways and Byways: Volume 3, Number 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Though the lunar conjunction to the sun that marks the new moon and the start of a new lunar cycle.
Conjunction orbs are rather small, usually only 1 — 3 degrees, but in the framework of a stellium, this is likely rendered moot.
Conjunctions are certainly fickle aspects and unfortunately for such a potentially good aspect they can turn out rough especially in the area of ego with conjunctions affecting first house matters.
www.stormpages.com /ejourney/articles/astrology/stellarhwy/sh011202.htm (5885 words)
Lunar Republic : Lunar Links and Resources
Clementine Lunar Image Browser -- The extraordinary lunar imaging project, conducted as a joint venture of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization (BMDO) and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), along with the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), produced some of the finest images ever of the Moon.
Lunar Sections -- One of the finest online photographic references, melding excellent lunar surface photographs from NASA and amateur astronomers into a sectional directory of the Moon, keyed to the essential "Atlas of the Moon" by Antonín Rükl.
Lunar Settlement Initiative -- Providing an open-source legal framework for organizations that offer land claims on the Moon in order to finance private and/or commercial Lunar settlement and development projects.
www.lunarrepublic.com /info/links.shtml (655 words)
While the present calendar (Gregorian) had its roots in the lunar cycle as evidenced by the length of the months and even the word "month" itself, it was adjusted to the solar year in order to maintain the seasonal references - its relation to the lunar phases was eventually abandoned.
Since the moon is in conjunction with the sun when it is "new", its first crescent is most readily observed just after sunset on the evening of the conjunction, but the actual conjunction may have occurred many hours before.
The duration between the true conjunction and the observation of this first crescent is a complex calculation which takes into account the season, the lunar latitude and the geographical latitude and longitude of the place of observation.
www.lespenner.com /cal_hist_and_rules.htm (3985 words)
Where No Man Has Gone Before, Appendix 3c (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
It was clearly recognized at the conference that Apollo lunar surface experiments packages or their derivatives such as Emplaced Scientific Stations or Remote Geophysical Monitors would be used on essentially all AAP landing missions.
Many scientific experiments appear very promising for lunar exploration but are not feasible now because (1) detector systems have not been developed to the point of having the desired sensitivity, or (2) theoretical problems have not been fully investigated to insure proper design of the experiment or full interpretation of the results.
Because of the rapid development of suitable launch capability and the growth of an extensive body of photogeologic maps of the lunar surface and because of the lead-times required for development of selected systems, the working groups felt that such analyses are urgent.
lunar.arc.nasa.gov /archives/documents/SP4214/app3c.html (3520 words)
lunar eclipse concept from the Astronomy knowledge base (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
partial lunar eclipse (2 facts) - An eclipse in which the Moon passes through the shadow cast by the Earth, the Moon passing partially through the Earth's umbra at maximum eclipse.
penumbral lunar eclipse (3 facts) (appulse) - An eclipse in which the Moon passes through the shadow cast by the Earth, the Moon passing only through the Earth's penumbra.
total lunar eclipse (2 facts) - An eclipse in which the Moon passes through the shadow cast by the Earth, the Moon passing completely through the Earth's umbra.
www.site.uottawa.ca:4321 /astronomy/lunareclipse.html (140 words)
An Astronomical Hebrew Calendar (conjunction+24h) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Lunar crescent visibility varies with weather conditions, clouds, atmospheric dust and clarity (especially in the westerly direction), temperature, humidity, nearby and westerly light pollution, and local elevation with unobstructed view of the horizon.
Even with the progressive drift of the Molad later and later with respect to the actual mean lunar conjunctions, the Traditional Hebrew Calendar will continue to have a higher frequency of lunar crescent still not visible by the start of the second day of most months even beyond the 9th millennium.
Abandoned because starting months so near to the conjunction had the effect that the new lunar crescent was rarely visible on the first and most often not even on the second day of the month, which would probably be socially unacceptable.
individual.utoronto.ca /kalendis/hebrew/astro.htm (8435 words)
The Earth-Moon And Temple Astronomy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
Essentially, a fixed seven-squared set of lunar phases precisely interfaces with a seven-squared set of years as long as the count of one lunar-phase (the 'ot') is specially counted-apart at the boundary of each third year.
Essentially, if only one-half of the lunar cycle (in the waning stages) was counted in terms of the day-unit-starting-with-sunrise, then it could also be that in the other half of the lunar cycle (in waxing stages), the day-unit was conversely counted from sunset.
Some early literature seems to indicate that the formally counted lunar half-cycle was not always oriented toward the new and full phases of the lunar cycle, but rather show that the lunar-half-cycle was oriented--at least at times--to the first and third quarters of the lunar cycle.
www.hope-of-israel.org /crnotes.htm (13535 words)
Lunar Republic : The Bush Space Plan
Purchase a lunar land claim to help return humans to the Moon.
The Lunar Republic Society, in conjunction with the Kennedy II Lunar Exploration Project, also wishes to return humans to the Moon.
We raise funds for space exploration by selling lunar land claims to individuals and companies throughout the globe.
www.lunarrepublic.com /info/bushplan.shtml (551 words)
Indianz.Com Message Board - Moon wobbles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-17)
The powerful contact occurs when the Sun and either the North or South Lunar Nodes are in the same sign, which is the conjunction, or when the Sun is square, 90 degree angle to the Lunar Nodes.
The Sun in Scorpio is in the South Lunar Node conjunction.
What made me predict a terrible earthquake during July of 1976 was that the North Lunar Node was in Scorpio conjuncting Uranus, square to the Sun in Leo conjuncting Saturn in Leo, while Jupiter and the South Lunar Node were in Taurus (Taurus, the Sign of the land and mother nature).
www.indianz.com /board/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=21765 (1537 words)
Eid on Monday !!! - Ummah.com
Hmm, from what I heard, the moon was not sighted anywhere in the world due to a lunar conjunction.
Since he is a graduate of Astronomy, I have every reason to believe his depiction of the fact of the lunar conjunction occuring recently, and that the Saudis are using calculations, even though in this case, it rejects science (as a result of the lunar conjunction) and Islaam.
As far as I know, the crescent moon was sighted in Riyadh (near it, rather) and this was known by a number of people (including the imam of the masjid I was praying in) since he held up the tarwee until he had confirmation.
www.ummah.net /forum/showthread.php?p=460111 (1346 words)
Lunar Embassy Baltic
Lunar Business Systems, LLC may at one time or another assign responsibility for resident agents within specific countries to provide services in those countries as this need arises.
Lunar Business Systems, LLC in conjunction with The Lunar Embassy and Aim High!, Inc. can also provide web site hosting for as little as $50.00 per year.
The Lunar Embassy has had numerous requests from our customers to have a group created that is different from the rest of the property owners.
www.lunarbaltic.lv /news3_lv.html (2482 words)
APOD Search Results for "earthshine"
The sunlit crescent is over-exposed revealing the rest of the lunar surface illuminated by faint earthshine.
The Solar Corona, the Sun's outer atmosphere, is visible shining brightly behind the lunar limb while the Moon's surface is illuminated by Earthshine, sunlight reflected from the Earth to the Moon.
As pictured, the part of the Moon in shadow is the lunar farside, the side not visible from Earth.
antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov /cgi-bin/apod/apod_search?earthshine (1737 words)
Election 2004: Lunar Return and Ennead Charts for the Candidates
The Sun is on the IC conjunct natal Mercury which is square to natal Neptune/MC on the lunar return ascendant.
The inauguration ascendant is conjunct Edwards' solar return part of fortune, and the Moon at the scheduled time of swearing-in is conjunct solar return Mercury, which in turn conjoins natal Moon-Jupiter.
A fascinating feature of this tri-wheel is that in all three charts—the 2004 solar return chart at the center, the inaugural transits in the middle and the natal planets in the outer wheel, is that the nodes in all three charts fall on the Ascendant/zenith solar return angles.
www.snowcrest.net /sunrise/election2004-charts.htm (2560 words)
What is the Biblical New Moon?
The lunar conjunction is the moment in time each month, when the moon moves most directly between the Earth and Sun and the side of the moon turned toward the Earth is dark.
A lunation, or synodic month, is the period of time from one lunar conjunction to the next. The mean average lunation is just under 29.53059 days[6]. However, the moon's orbit is not perfectly regular; therefore lunar months vary in length.
The full moon may follow the lunar conjunction by as little as 13 days, 21 hours and 53 minutes, or by as much as 15 days, 14 hours and 30 minutes. Consequently, no method of determining the new moon could precisely satisfy such a requirement.
www.belovedofgod.org /paper-calendar2.html (5383 words)
Order of Nazorean Essenes
lunar phases, it is ultimately possible to determine the length of the annual solar cycle (in the
the length of 49 lunar cycles (or seven-squared lunar cycles).
equivalent to 7 lunar quarter-phases, or to the length of one-seventh part of the annual cycle.
essenes.net /astronomy2t.html (6871 words)
The Lunar Planner: Sun-Jupiter
The Sun-Jupiter conjunction also occurs in the "Manifestation and Demonstration" phase of this Lunar Cycle (just after the Disseminating Moon), emphasizing its time to live the transition (eclipse), to concretize and make it real.
In yet a greater context, the Sun-Jupiter conjunction marks the climax point in the 399-day Jupiter Synodic Cycle.
The current Jupiter-Synodic theme was presented in detail in the March 10, 2005 Lunar Cycle text.
www.lunarplanner.com /Snippets/snippet.05.10.21.html (757 words)
The Molad Drift
...these calculations determine the conjunction of the sun and the moon only according to their average rate of progress, and do not reflect their true positions...
The difference between the period of the molad and the above given astronomical value of the mean lunar conjunction is 0.0000 052 827 days per mean lunar period.
Because of the constantly widening gap between the time of the molad and the time of the astronomical mean conjunction, as well as the unknown value of the time of the Hebrew calendar's first molad, it is very difficult to suggest the geographical location over which any molad takes place.
www.geocities.com /Athens/1584/moladot7.html (365 words)
British-Israel.us - Lesson 7 - What's Wrong With The CALENDAR?
First, we should use the crescent rather than the conjunction because the ancient Hebrews had no almanacs or telescopes to figure out when the lunar conjunction would occur.
And she brought forth a man child." This is the constellation Virgo when the sun's path crosses through her body in mid-October, the exact time of the Feast of Trumpets in many years.
Since John SAW the moon under her feet, it couldn't have been the lunar conjunction.
www.british-israel.us /07.html (1273 words)
Hebrew Calendar Science and Myths
The Hebrew calendar is constructed from the simple multiple of a constant value for the mean lunation period.
The mean lunation period is an averaging of the time taken by the moon to cycle from lunar conjunction to lunar conjunction.
12 * (29d 12h 793p) = 354d 8h 876p and the lunar length of all leap years is 13 * (29d 12h 793p) = 383d 21h 589p.
www.geocities.com /Athens/1584/molmath.html (2754 words)
Capowski's RPG-Related Translation Junk Drawer - Other Lunar
An in-progress translation of the charming Game Gear Lunar side story about two girls and their adventures at a magic school (visit Naflign's Ego or Kizyr's Lunar: Walking School, the Walkthrough for more info).
These manga were the first job Funato landed in conjunction with Lunar, I believe, and it's interesting to see compare this relatively early style to those of Younenki no Owari and Vheen Hikuusen Monogatari.
Lunar, Phantasy Star, Final Fantasy, Rudra no Hihou, Estpolis, Seiken Densetsu, Chrono Trigger, and all other trademarkable names and assorted official paraphernalia are the property of their respective creators and companies; this page is not not not not not affiliated with any of the above.
home.att.net /~RCgamusic/olunar.htm (1379 words)
in conjunction with lunar eclipse... ... - Burning Man - tribe.net
Actually unless I am confused, the lunar ecplispe in Monday Night...Tuesday am..but this sounds cool.
My vision of the lunar eclipse is that a lot of us are going to be in the deep Playa to get away from as many lights as possible anyway.
but the lunar eclipse is going to be on people's minds -- and so people will already have some awareness of it, and it answers the question "what's in it for me to turn off the lights?" -- because what's in it is to see the eclipse in a way not really possible elsewhere.
bm.tribe.net /thread/7347b99c-a100-4057-a5c8-aedae60609fa (2304 words)
Moon phenomena
Images (more than 400) there have been collected from the vast archive of lunar phases.
Lunar phases - Growing crescent to first quarter
Lunar phases - Vanishing from last quarter to crecent
www.polarimage.fi /moon/moon.htm (356 words)
www.irishastronomy.org :: View topic - Lunar Conjunction with Jupiter
Tonight's effort was geared at more in setting up the equipment in a sort of production mode configuration with the conjunction of the moon with Jupiter representing a means to test various aspects of the configuration.
The dramatic difference in the apparent diameter of the Jovian satellites with that of the moon is so great that it poses a further challenge in itself, not to mention the equally dramatic difference in magnitudes.
I was just looking at the conjunction here a half hour or so ago, and it makes a nice image.
www.irishastronomy.org /boards/viewtopic.php?p=12228 (1537 words)


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MainAll NewsInside IsraelJerusalem Construction 'a Drop in the Ocean'
Jerusalem Construction 'a Drop in the Ocean'
City representative welcomes 200 new housing units, but says, 'I would be happy if it were 8,000.'
Tags: Housing Crisis Housing Approval Jerusalem
Maayana Miskin , Aug 13 , 2013 8:51 AM
The decision to allow construction projects in Jerusalem neighborhoods east and south of the 1949 armistice line is a good one, says Attorney Herzl Yehezkel, a city representative from the neighborhood of Homat Shmuel.
However, he told Arutz Sheva, Jerusalem's fast-growing population needs far more housing than the few hundred units that will be built.
"I would be happy if they were building 8,000 units instead of 800," he said. "The little bit that they are marketing is merely a drop in the ocean."
"They're only marketing 200 apartments in Homat Shmuel and I hope that in the next stage we'll build 900 new units in that neighborhood," he added.
Homat Shmuel has particular strategic importance, he argued. Boosting the neighborhood's growth "boosts the whole southern entrance to Jerusalem," he explained.
Yehezkel also spoke of his feelings of excitement upon becoming a city council member. "Something new really is starting," he said, paraphrasing Bayit Yehudi's election slogan. "I feel like a loyal servant to the holy nation."
"I know the Jerusalem municipality, I've been active for the past decade as the head of the [Homat Shmuel] community council. So the halls of the city council are not new to me," he continued. "I'm excited to serve in the parliament of the capital of the Jewish nation – that's not something to take for granted."
Yehezkel recently took over from Councilman Yair Gabbai, who left his seat as a Bayit Yehudi (Jewish Home) council member after joining the Likud.


MARRIAGE was originally planned as a social commentary sketch about gay marriage. There was going to be a gay and a straight couple, both relationships would be exactly the same. They both fall in love, they get married, they resent each other and then one axe murders the other. There's no difference.
That some how transformed itself into a weird, surrealist dark comedy short film. I wrote this with the intention of alienating the audience. I wanted the characters to sound like they were written by aliens who don't understand what humans are like.
The milk scene in this script is WAY better than it turned out in the film. Enjoy!


When Peele released Get Out to rave reviews back in 2017, it straddled multiple genres with horror, comedy, drama and even a touch of documentary, all with a political overtone and some social commentary, it was a masterstroke made all the better by it being his directorial debut and his choice to focus on black Americans underrepresentation in the horror genre. So when it was announced that he would be following this up with another horror film I was excited.
Not long since the death of her mother, Adelaide (Nyong'o) along with her husband Gabe (Duke) and two children head to the families beach house for a summer break, unfortunately for them the holiday has to be cut short when following a day at the beach a strange group of people who look exactly the family appears on the driveway and starts to wreak havoc on the lives.
Unlike his first film Peele stated that Us was going to be pretty much a straight-up horror film and from the very first scene in the film you can tell that it's not going to be one that's filled with cliché jump scares, instead Peele has gone down the route of making a film that likes to builds up the tension, not only this but one containing the perfect amount character development, comedic relief and just enough realism.
Another of the films strengths is the strong acting throughout, especially from Nyong'o, whose challenged with pushing the film along whilst the rest of the family are given less screen time and although they play their parts well they are pretty much supporting roles, this however doesn't prevent you from actually caring about that happens to them.
Something else that made Us such an enjoyable film to watch is the interesting lore that was created, one that although contains a few plot holes, I wouldn't mind seeing it further expanded upon in more films, giving us some back story on just how these situations came to pass and what happened next.
This isn't to say that the film didn't have a few issues, firstly was that although it was a well made horror and showed some scary situations filled with tension, it never felt particularly scary, this might well be because some of the scenes with the attackers came across as funny rather than menacing, proven by causing laughter in the screening I happened to be in and sapped the fear away.
Another of the problems I feel caused the film to suffer is just how obvious some of the twists are, the main one I had guessed within the first ten minutes and thus caused the big reveal to feel like a bit of a let down, not only this but it caused more plot holes to appear, in turn taking me out of the movie while I try to think of possible ways of what was being shown could never of worked.
Overall Us is a well produced and compelling story that although not that scary has struck a chord with audiences as seen by its impressive takings at the box office, further proving once again that films focusing on a black cast can be a success and that Jordan Peele has an eye for an entertaining story. I for one will be excited to see what he comes up with next.