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Posted on November 1, 2019 November 1, 2019 by Evan Gough
NASA is Now Considering a Pluto Orbiter Mission
NASA's New Horizons mission taught us a lot about Pluto, the ice dwarf planet. But the spacecraft sped past Pluto so quickly, we only got high-resolution images of one side of the planet, the so-called "encounter side." New Horizons gave us a big leap in understanding, but in a way, it asked more questions than it answered.
The next step is clearly an orbiter, and now NASA is starting to seriously consider one.
NASA has given the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) funding to start developing the idea. SwRI is tasked with investigating "the important attributes, feasibility and cost of a possible future Pluto orbiter mission."
New Horizons captured plenty of high-resolution images of the near side, or encounter side. But images of the far side are much lower resolution because the spacecraft sped by so quickly. Image: NASA/JPL/New Horizons
It's far from a sure thing. This study is one of 10 approved by NASA in advance of the next Planetary Science Decadal Survey. The study will develop design requirements for an orbiter and its payload, make some preliminary cost estimates, and assess risks for new technologies needed for the mission. The results of this study will be delivered to the National Academy Planetary Decadal Study that begins in 2020.
New Horizons visited Pluto before heading deeper into the Kuiper Belt and visiting 2014 MU69, a Kuiper Belt Object (KBO) also known as Ultima Thule. The spacecraft may even visit a third KBO. The proposed Pluto Orbiter would follow a similar path.
A global mosaic of Pluto. The center of the image is Pluto's encounter side, where New Horizons was able to capture high-resolutions as it sped past. On the right and the left are the non-encounter side, imaged at a much lower resolution when New Horizons was further away. Image Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute/Ross Beyer
"We're excited to have this opportunity to inform the decadal survey deliberations with this study," said SwRI's Dr. Carly Howett, who is leading the effort. "Our mission concept is to send a single spacecraft to orbit Pluto for two Earth years before breaking away to visit at least one KBO and one other KBO dwarf planet."
The SwRI's previous work on a Pluto orbiter laid the groundwork for this study. In 2018, SwRI used their own research funds to develop the idea for an orbital tour that can investigate Pluto then head further out into the Kuiper Belt.
"…it is possible to use gravity assists from Pluto's largest moon, Charon, to escape Pluto orbit and to go back into the Kuiper Belt…"
Dr. Alan Stern, Southwest Research Institute
"In an SwRI-funded study that preceded this new NASA-funded study, we developed a Pluto system orbital tour, showing the mission was possible with planned capability launch vehicles and existing electric propulsion systems," said SwRI's Dr. Alan Stern, principal investigator of the New Horizons mission as well as the SwRI-funded study. "We also showed it is possible to use gravity assists from Pluto's largest moon, Charon, to escape Pluto orbit and to go back into the Kuiper Belt for the exploration of more KBOs like MU69 and at least one more dwarf planet for comparison to Pluto."
The key hurdle in an orbiter mission to Pluto is propellant. It takes a lot of propellant to orbit around Pluto and study its moons, its atmosphere, its solar wind interactions, and other aspects of the Pluto system. But the 2018 study showed that a Pluto orbiter could use gravity-assists from Pluto's satellite Charon to study Pluto for several years, and could use the same gravity assist to head deeper into the Kuiper Belt. This is similar to how the Cassini mission used Saturn's large moon Titan.
This image of Pluto's encounter side was taken only minutes after New Horizons was at its closest approach. An orbiter would allow an extended investigation. Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI.
"This is groundbreaking,' said Stern about the 2018 study. "Previously, NASA and the planetary science community thought the next step in Kuiper Belt exploration would be to choose between 'going deep' in the study of Pluto and its moons or 'going broad' by examining smaller Kuiper Belt objects and another dwarf planet for comparison to Pluto. The planetary science community debated which was the right next step. Our studies show you can do both in a single mission: it's a game changer."
The 2018 plan also allowed for an up close encounter with Charon, Pluto's largest satellite, as well as other lunar flybys.
An enhanced-color image of Charon from New Horizons. Image Credit: By NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute – http://pluto.jhuapl.edu/Multimedia/Science-Photos/image.php?gallery_id=2&image_id=323 (see also http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA19968), Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=43899990
Tiffany Finley is a software lead at SwRI's Space Science and Engineering Division. "This tour is far from optimized, yet it is capable of making five or more flybys of each of Pluto's four small moons, while examining Pluto's polar and equatorial regions using plane changes," said Finley. "The plan also allows for an extensive up-close encounter with Charon before dipping into Pluto's atmosphere for sampling before the craft uses Charon one last time to escape into the Kuiper Belt for new assignments," she said.
The 2018 study also showed that a Pluto Orbiter could use the same xenon ion propulsion system as the Dawn mission to travel to other Kuiper Belt Objects. It also showed that the orbiter could enter orbit around another dwarf planet in the Kuiper Belt.
New Horizons gave us our first look at Pluto's active surface. Like a cosmic lava lamp, a large section of Pluto's icy surface in Sputnik Planum is being constantly renewed by a process called convection that replaces older surface ices with fresher material. An orbiter would help us understand this and many other features of Pluto. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.
"Who would have thought that a single mission using already available electric propulsion engines could do all this?" Stern said about the 2018 study. "Now that our team has shown that the planetary science community doesn't have to choose between a Pluto orbiter or flybys of other bodies in the Kuiper Belt, but can have both, I call this combined mission the 'gold standard' for future Pluto and Kuiper Belt exploration."
There are several obstacles that a Pluto Orbiter needs to deal with. One is data communication. New Horizons only had 16 GBs of data storage and took 16 months to transmit all of its data from the Pluto flyby back to Earth. That obviously won't work for an orbiter. It's a simple matter to increase the data storage, but a much more powerful data transmission system will be needed.
New Horizons is a pretty small spacecraft, and so it its dish. A Pluto Orbiter would need a much larger, more powerful data transmission system. Image Credit: By NASA – http://mediaarchive.ksc.nasa.gov/detail.cfm?mediaid=27362, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=401365
It's a good sign that NASA has decided to fund a more detailed study into the SwRI's Pluto Orbiter proposal. SwRI has a strong track record of mission management, including Juno, New Horizons, and IBEX. They've also developed technologies and instruments for multiple NASA and ESA missions.
Thanks to New Horizons, we know that Pluto is much more complex than we thought. We know that the surface of Pluto is far more active than we could've imagined. We know that Pluto has an atmosphere, and we think that Pluto once had liquid on its surface. Pluto may also have a sub-surface ocean, possibly linked to Pluto' so-called heart, the Tombaugh Region.
Close up of the back side of Pluto taken by New Horizons shows multiple layers of haze in its mostly nitrogen atmosphere. Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory/Southwest Research Institute.
New Horizons really only gave us a snapshot of Pluto. It's an extremely enticing snapshot, but the flyby lasted only about 24 hours, and there's a lot more to learn.
Press Release: SwRI TO PLAN PLUTO ORBITER MISSION
2018 Press Release: SwRI TEAM MAKES BREAKTHROUGHS STUDYING PLUTO ORBITER MISSION
NASA: One Year Later: New Horizons' Top 10 Discoveries at Pluto
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This sounds exciting, I would love to see orbiters around Uranus, Neptune and Pluto.
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The Two Steves: Steve Rushingwind
International Three Time Native American Music Award Winner, Three New Mexico Music Award Winner, Four Time Indian Summer Award Winner, One World Music Award Winner and Three Time Finalist at the Indigenous Music Awards, Steven Rushingwind, Native Flute Musician, and Voting GRAMMY member, has been playing Native Flute for 11 years. His music is defined as Native American, World Beat and Native Fusion. Steven is currently up for 5 Native American Music Award Nominations for the 18th Annual Awards Show. He was a finalist at the Indigenous Music Awards for "Best Indigenous Entertainer of the Year" 2015 and nominated for Artist of the Year at the 2016 Native American Music Awards. Steven, a California Native, raised in a small house with one bathroom and a large family in south Pomona, a city 25 miles east of Los Angles, always had a passion for music. His family couldn't afford musical instruments nor lessons although Steven longed to express himself musically. His father, full blooded Opata and Cahuilla and his mother from Chihuahua Mexico maintained a solid tight family and those tight bonds remain today.
Steven's latest release, "Rushingwind" is a solo flute album, produced by longtime friend Daniel Wonacott (Finch bassist) and recorded in Temecula, CA. Steven returns to the beginning, the beginnings of his journey with the flute. He reflects back of the newness and wonderment of the flute and how he is now capable of doing what he originally wanted to do with it and play the way he had dreamed of in the beginning. This album takes you on a journey of fun and happiness while exploring the ying and yang of life and persona. This album is currently up for Five NAMMY Awards.
Steven's release "FUEGO" recorded with his band , The Native Groove was released in February of 2017. He wraps his Native American roots up with his Mexican roots to produce a Latin-American fusion sound that has you toe tapping and twirling. The band sequestered themselves in El Cerrito Studio in San Francisco for 3 days and recorded the killer album.
"Nordic Passage" was a collaboration between Age Reite, a well know Norwegian musician and himself. The album intertwines the Native Sounds with Norwegian contemporary. RED BEATEN PATH, was produced by Harlan Steinberger from Hen House Studios, in Venice, CA and mastered by Bernie Grundman Mastering Studios. Red Beaten Path honors the Native American strife and blessings of the path that the Native Americans have taken. This album was a finalist for the Best Flute CD at the Indigenous Music Awards in Canada in 2015.
Steven joined forces with Nelson Rios (Miami Sound Machine's percussionist for 20 years) and formed Rushingwind & The Native Groove. The Groove consists of musicians from the East and West coast. The Native Groove had the honor of performing for the Sunwatch Flute Festival, Aboriginal People's Choice Awards in Winnipeg, Manitoba in September of 2014, Native Rhythms Festival, Melbourne Florida, Los Angeles Arboretum, The Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden and Sacred Fire Studios in Philadelphia PA.
Steven is also half of the duo "Rushingwind and Mucklow." He and Michael Mucklow of Joshua Tree, CA, got together and started writing songs together in 2009. The duo have won and have been nominated for numerous awards nationally and internationally. Rushingwind and Mucklow was awarded Best New Age Recording for Rushingwind and Mucklow's album BRIDGE at the 15th Annual Native American Music Awards, held November 15, 2014, at the Seneca Casino in Allegany, New York. The Rushingwind and Mucklow album,STRONGHORSE, was nominated for numerous awards during 2014.
Solo Albums
Cloud Runner (2009)
Sacred Ground (2011)
Red Beaten Path (2014) Winner "Best Native American Album", One World Music Awards 2016, Nominated for Native American Music Awards Best "New Age/Instrumental" 2016
Rushingwind (2018) Winner Best Instrumental at the Native American Music Awards along with 4 other nominations.
Rushingwind and Mucklow
Ancient Elements (2010) (1 NAMMY NOMINATION,1 New Mexico Music Award)
Among the Ancients (2011) (1 NAMMY, 2012, 2 ISMAS, 1 New Mexico Music Award)
Bridge (2012) (NAMMY 2014, 2 ISMA , 1 New Mexico Music Award)
Strong Horse (2013) (1 NAMMY nomination, 1 NMWA nom, 4 ISMA nom)
Rushingwind & The Native Groove
Fuego (2017)
Rushingwind & Norma Tanega
Twin Journeys (2012)
Steve's Music
Steve's Art
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a common enemy... Every Reasonable Doubt (Vernetta Henderson #1) by Pamela Samuels Young
"Wow. I haven'd read a good legal thriller since the Client, and this was everything. It was fast paced, always kept my interest and it wasn't so bogged down with legal jargon that it was hard to follow. Vernetta was funny, witty, and strong and I enjoyed her POV. "- Arlene, Goodreads
When attorneys Vernetta Henderson and Neddy McClain are tapped to take on the biggest case of their careers, they are less than thrilled about working together.
Their strained relationship, however, is the least of their problems. Their socialite client—charged with the brutal murder of her husband—is demanding an immediate dismissal of the case. But a ruthless prosecutor is determined to make sure that doesn't happen.
Forced to fight a common enemy, the two women close ranks and, in the process, develop a bond that sees them through the uncertainties of trial, the pain of betrayal and pressures neither could have imagined.
If Max Montgomery ever had to commit to monogamy to save his wife's life, she would just have to come back and haunt him from the afterlife.
Max rested his forearm on the registration desk as his eyes anxiously crisscrossed the lobby of the Beverly Hills Ritz-Carlton. He watched as people milled about, dressed in tuxedos and evening gowns. He made eye contact with a short, brown-skinned cutie who sashayed by in a dress so tight he could see the faint outline of her thong. Max smiled. She smiled back. Too bad he was already about to get laid. Otherwise, he definitely would've taken the time to follow up on that.
"Here's your key, Mr. Montgomery," said a cherub-faced girl with a shrill voice. "You'll be in room 502. One of our most elegant suites."
When he reached for the key, his fingertips accidentally brushed her hand and she nervously looked away. She wants me, Max thought. But she was way too young for his taste.
He thanked her and headed for the bank of elevators in the rear of the lobby. Max tapped the elevator button and the car to his left instantly glided open. Some of the tension eased from his body once he was safely inside. He had waited nearly a week for this night and his wait was almost over.
The anonymous invitation to a "private evening of intimacy" had intrigued him and he had immediately decided to accept. No questions asked. A man like Max didn't make hasty decisions very often. On the rare occasion that he did, it was only because he was banking on a huge payoff.
Max stepped off the elevator, studied the sign directly in front of him, then turned left down a long hallway. He walked with a distinctive, self-assured stride, like a male model taking a slow stroll down the catwalk. He stopped in front of a door near the end of the hallway and fished the plastic card key from his breast pocket.
A huge smile of anticipation spread across his face as he entered the lavish suite. The place was a classy ensemble of muted colors, luxurious fabrics, and calming scents. From the flowing silk curtains to the massive mahogany sleigh bed to the sleek suede comforter, everything in the room spelled class with a capital C. And that pleased him.
Max made his way over to a nightstand near the window, his feet sinking into the plush, caramel-colored carpet with every step. He examined a champagne bottle sitting near an antique lamp. Dom Pérignon, vintage 1995. Definitely his style. He only hoped his host was familiar with some of his more erotic personal preferences.
The sight of a red teddy hanging from the corner of the headboard triggered a twinge of arousal that warmed him inside. He rubbed the soft fabric between his fingers, smiled again, then tossed it onto the bed. On the floor near the nightstand was a large wicker basket with three packages of rose petals, twelve scented candles, two champagne glasses, and a book of matches. He set the basket on the bed and read the fancy gold card inside. It provided additional instructions for the evening.
Max glanced at his watch. He didn't have much time. He scooped up the basket with one hand, began undoing his tie with the other and proceeded into the bathroom. It was just as dazzling as the rest of the suite. The marble floor, the shiny granite countertop, the extravagant gold fixtures were all symbols of an affluent lifestyle Max knew well.
As the card commanded, Max filled the oversized Jacuzzi tub with water, sprinkled it with the rose petals and positioned the candles about the room. He lit each one, then turned off the lights to admire his handiwork. Yes, yes, yes. He was about to have himself one big ball.
Max ripped up both the invitation and the card and flushed them down the toilet. A married man could never be too careful. Just as he was about to head back into the bedroom, the enormous mirror on the wall directly across from the tub stopped him in his tracks. Max grinned. He would get to watch.
Marching into the bedroom, he stripped off his Hugo Boss suit and draped it over the back of an armchair near the bed, making sure his pants were carefully folded along the crease line. After removing the rest of his clothes, he grabbed the champagne bottle and strutted naked into the bathroom, where he eased into the steaming hot water and waited.
All day long he had tried to figure out who his freaky little hostess might be. He had instantly ruled out Janice. A single parent with three kids didn't have the time, not to mention the energy, to plan something this elaborate. She could barely escape from her solo law practice for their once-a-week lunchtime romps. That left Paula, a stewardess who had served him on a flight to New York three months earlier, and Natasha, the big-breasted Swede who was temping as a receptionist at his firm's Newport Beach office. She had straight out boned him with her eyes when he walked up to the reception desk to find out her name. Yeah, both Paula and Natasha were kinky enough to plan something like this.
Max poured himself a glass of champagne and took a slow, satisfying sip. The air jets pelting his back with spurts of water felt great. He closed his eyes and slowly twisted his head to the left as far as it would go, then repeated the move on the opposite side. The muscles along the base of his neck felt like dense, knotted fists. Maybe she would give him a massage afterward.
At the sound of the hotel room door opening, Max bolted forward, causing rose petals to splash onto the floor. He could feel his pulse racing as he waited for his mystery date to appear, and when she did not, he settled back into the tub and tried to calm himself down. She was probably just slipping into that sexy little teddy. He was so hard now he had to fight the urge to jack himself off.
Max reached for the champagne bottle to refill his glass just as a sharp, searing pain attacked his left temple. He hoped it wasn't another migraine. There was a time when he could almost will them away if he concentrated hard enough. But that wasn't working anymore. He sat the bottle back down. He would wait and share the rest with her.
Max leaned back, sucked in a long, deep breath, and closed his eyes for several seconds. When he reopened them, he could not focus. A thick curtain of haze had suddenly filled the room. He tried to sit up, but his head felt heavier than a bowling ball and fell backward, slamming hard against the tiled wall. He was now blind, dizzy, and in excruciating pain.
By the time the bathroom door opened, Max could feel the presence of someone else in the room. He could even hear a voice. A voice he was too dazed to place, speaking words he could not quite make out. Max had never had a migraine like this one before. He tried to speak, but his lips spewed nothing but gibberish. Had the champagne been spiked?
Without warning, a powerful jolt of pain pierced the right side of Max's chest at the same time that his head seemed to explode.
His visitor, hovering over him now, plunged a knife deep into Max's chest, then repeated the motion. A second time, a third time, a fourth time. The stabbing continued until the rose petals disappeared into a pool of deep, dark red.
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"All Of Us Are Dead" Star Park Ji Hu Reveals She Chose Her College Because Of Co-Star Yoon Chan Young : Entertainment Daily
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If it hadn't been for her "All of Us Are Dead" co-star Yoon Chan Young, Park Ji Hu may not have ended up at her current college!
On the latest episode of JTBC's "Knowing Bros" (also known as "Ask Us Anything"), Park Ji Hu made a guest appearance alongside several other cast members from the hit zombie series "All of Us Are Dead."
After graduating from high school last month, Park Ji Hu recently joined Yoon Chan Young as a freshman at Hanyang University, where—just like her older co-star—she will be a theatre and film major.
During the show, the "Knowing Bros" cast brought up the fact that Park Ji Hu and Yoon Chan Young were now attending the same college, and Yoon Chan Young explained that while he enrolled in 2020, he is currently a sophomore because he took a year off from school.
Park Ji Hu then shared that she had actually decided to apply to Hanyang University because of Yoon Chan Young.
The actress recalled, "Chan Young always wore his Hanyang theatre and film department jacket, which has the words 'Hanyang Theatre and Film' emblazoned on it, to the filming set. At first, I wondered, 'Why does he keep wearing that jacket? Is it really warm, or does he want to show off?' But the more I saw it, the jacket looked so pretty, and since Chan Young kept talking about Hanyang University and selling me on how great it was, I became interested in the school."
"So when I was applying to college, I chose Hanyang University," she continued, "and [Chan Young] was really happy."
At another point in the show, Yoon Chan Young surprised the "Knowing Bros" cast by revealing that his on-screen kiss with Park Ji Hu in "All of Us Are Dead" was also his first kiss in real life.
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Florida families warn against gatherings as they mourn
"There will be someone sitting at your dinner table on Thursday evening who may not be with us at Christmas," said one nurse who lost her mother to the coronavirus.
MIAMI — At a Miami park that has been turned into a memorial for COVID-19 victims, families and officials gathered Tuesday to honor people who have died as they pleaded with others to avoid Thanksgiving dinners with those outside their home.
U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson and other local officials spoke about the holidays approaching as the number of confirmed cases and hospitalizations creeps up in Florida after stabilizing in September and October following a summer surge.
Hundreds of white corrugated plastic sheets shaped like tombstones, some with names and messages, were staked on the lawn in rows simulating a cemetery.
Registered nurse Joanna Moore said she and her sister, also a nurse, thought they had done everything to protect their 79-year-old mother from the illness by isolating her in a separate area of her home and keeping her 10 feet apart from others.
"We felt we had taken all of the proper precautions to keep my mother safe," said Moore, who said they later learned a family member who had visited the home had been exposed to the virus. Moore said her mother did not have underlying conditions.
A retired middle-school teacher, Patsy G. Moore did not really present any symptoms besides excessive sleeping. When her daughter took her to urgent care, she already suffered from pneumonia.
"There will be someone sitting at your dinner table on Thursday evening who may not be with us at Christmas," Moore addressed a small crowd at the park. "If you are hosting at your home, I urge that you consider the potential outcome that is so catastrophic."
Officials at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are also advising against travel and deterring people from spending Thanksgiving Day with others from outside their household. But hotels in Miami Beach are experiencing last-minute bookings that may get them near full occupancy for the first time since March.
Hospitalizations continued to rise in Florida on Tuesday, with 3,787 patients with the virus, up from 3,748 Monday. Numbers of confirmed cases also have been rising in the past few weeks, and officials have not adopted additional restrictions to prevent the virus from spreading like they did in March and in July.
Wilson said she wanted people in her district to have a place to visit and collectively grieve for their loved ones, but she also said the park serves as a visual reminder of the human cost of the virus.
"I am standing and asking the community to take the realm of this fight," Wilson said. "We are losing too many people and too many people do not care that this virus is roaring through this country."
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Ukulele legend and Honolulu original Eddie Kamae dies at 89
Ukulele legend Eddie Kamae plays a few songs on Waikiki Beach in 2013.
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By Steve Marble
Eddie Kamae, one of the most influential Hawaiian musicians of the last half-century and a filmmaker who painstakingly documented the culture and history of the islands, has died at his home in Honolulu. He was 89.
Kamae, who died Saturday, had long been the face of The Sons of Hawaii, a popular recording group and a pioneering force in traditional island music.
Dressed in blue overalls and in red-and-white palaka shirts meant to evoke the working-class roots of the music they performed, The Sons of Hawaii offered listeners traditional Hawaiian songs at a time when many island musicians were serenading crowds with predictable tropical ballads and material from Hollywood soundtracks.
For as distinguished a musician as he became, Kamae came into the profession nearly by accident.
Eddie Kamae, left, and Hawaiian songwriter Sam Lia in a documentary film about Lia's life.
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An older brother — one of 10 siblings in the family — brought Kamae a ukulele after finding the instrument left behind on the back of the bus he drove in Honolulu.
Alone, he'd strum the ukulele and pluck the strings, trying to imitate the sounds of jazz, pop and Latin-infused music, perfecting a style that the Ukulele Hall of Fame said revolutionized the method of playing the instrument.
"I just loved what I heard and that sort of set my course," Kamae explained to the Honolulu Advertiser in 2010.
Kamae said he found many of the traditional island songs to be overly simple tunes, built largely on hula chants. Jazz and Latin music seemed more challenging.
And with a group called The Ukulele Rascals, he found an audience for his musical fusion tastes.
But when his father died in the mid-1950s, Kamae followed his wish that he dig deeper into the music of Hawaii's past.
"One day, after he passed away, I decided, 'Well, that's all he asked me to do.' So I found my way into Hawaiian music."
He looked up older musicians and sought their advice . He prowled the Bishop Museum in Honolulu and dug through the archives of nearly-forgotten songs.
Reborn a traditionalist, he teamed up with three others to form The Sons of Hawaii. The group — which came together in the early 1960s and recorded albums and entertained crowds for 50 years — is credited with igniting the so-called Hawaiian Renaissance, a period of renewed interest in island music and cultural awareness.
Kamae and his wife, Myrna, also filmed a set of 10 documentaries known as the "Hawaiian Legacy Series," films that examined the history of the islands. Together they formed the Hawaiian Legacy Foundation, which seeks to promote and preserve Hawaiian heritage.
In 2001, he was enshrined in the Ukulele Hall of Fame. "There is perhaps no person who deserves more credit for the popularity of the ukulele in modern Hawaiian music than Eddie Kamae," his induction reads.
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Volvo Ocean: Telefonica's daggerboards
Telefonica are still unsure what caused the broken daggerboards on both yachts
The Telefonica shore team – and boss Campbell Field – remains unsure whether collisions were responsible for the broken port daggerboards suffered by both the team's yachts in the Volvo Ocean second leg.
The Blue's daggerboard was the first to go, breaking eight days into the leg when they were reaching in 15 knots of breeze, before Black lost theirs a day later in marginally stronger conditions.
Initially a collision was suspected by Blue skipper Bouwe Bekking for his team's damage, but both boats have since been hauled from the water and Field says there are no conclusive indications of what happened to either.
"There is no physical evidence on the boats of any collision, but it might have been something soft," Field explained. "The jury is still out. In those conditions where you are working with daggerboards that are at about 20% of their maximum working load it is likely that they hit something."
"One of the rudders (on the Black boat) has a couple of little marks on it. That could have been from the leftover daggerboard going past or whatever we might have ran into."
Despite the issues, Field insisted the team was not considering the option of ordering a stronger set of daggerboards. "We are building some more because we are starting to run out of spares, but they are of the same design spec," he said. "We built one port and one starboard to cover two port and two starboard on the boats. It is sheer bad luck that we broke two on the same side."
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The World Championship U19 took place in Chantilly (France) on 15-17 September 2017.
This year we had 9 National Federations representing their U19 National teams for the European Championship.
The teams were placed in three groups of three teams each, to play the remaining two in their group. The two best-placed teams from each group advanced to the Quarter-finals.
Last year's World Champion, French National team, ost to Russia in Quarters and did not get to playoff. They are only 6th in total.
Norway lost to Great Britain in semis 2:3 in a hard game, missing only a little bit for win ...
Russia lost to Italy in semi-finals 1:3. That unexpected result offered to Italian team a way to the World Champions title but the result of their final game with Great Britain was devastating: not a single match won!!
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Plans to erect a statue to the former front man and founding member of The Dubliners have been in the works for 15 years.
Now two will be unveiled on the same day, January 30, reports RTÉ.
A life-size bronze statue by sculptor John Coll will be unveiled on South King Street at 2pm.
A marble head by Vera Klute will then be unveiled at 3.30pm near the Royal Canal at the junction of Guild Street and Sheriff Street.
The former piece was donated to the city by late artist Gerry Hunt, while the latter was commissioned by Dublin City Council.
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Le TP 52 est une classe de monocoque de 52 pieds menée en équipage. Ce sont des voiliers obéissant à une jauge à restrictions, dont la classe est reconnue comme série internationale par l'ISAF. Initialement conçus pour la Transpac Race, ils sont désormais aussi utilisés dans le cadre de l'Audi MedCup, circuit de régate se déroulant en Méditerranée, mais aussi dans de nombreuses régates courues sous la jauge IRC.

Caractéristiques
Les caractéristiques des bateaux sont conformes à la jauge de la classe.

Évolution des règles
En 2010, les TP 52 ont subi quelques modifications :
 Apparition d'un bout-dehors
 Augmentation du poids du lest de
 Passage de 15 à 12 équipiers
 Nombre de voiles limité à 15 (contre 21)
 Spis en nylon ou en polyester
 Pas de voiles d'avant en tête

Notes et références

Voir aussi

Bibliographie
 Magazine Course au large numéro 42

Liens externes
 Site officiel du circuit
 Site officiel de la classe TP52
 Site officiel de la classe GP42
 Web oficial de la classe S40
 Images du Circuit Medcup (Portugal - Portimão 2009, Cascais 2010/2011)

Classe de voilier
Jauge de course à la voile
Type de bateau de sport

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Q: How to solve numerically a nonlinear ODE (a BVP) with singular points in python? So, I have to solve numerically the following ODE y''+f(y)*(y')^2 = 0: ODE
originally between [y_i,y_f] where y = y(t) and y(0) = y_i. The main problem is that the function f(y) has a (regular) singular point (couldn't post the image).
Also, f(y) is obtained from long numerical calculations, so I have no analytical expression for it. The issue is that the singular point lies between y_i and y_f. So far, I could not find any method which helps me to solve this kind of problem. It doesn't matter if it can be solved as a BVP o IVP, but I need to cross the singularity.
What I have tried:

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*I approximated f(y) as -2/(y-y*), where y* is the singularity, and tried to solved the problem as a IVP using Runge-kutta, odeint and Runge-Kutta-Fehlberg method. But I cannot cross it.

*I tried to cheat using RKF, as y tends to be constant I manually increased it, forcing it to cross the singular point, but then the solution increase to infinity, so not a valid solution.

*Same as before, but using the numerically defined function f(y), not its approx.

*The same but as BVP using the shooting method and solve_bvp from Python.

A: You can immediately integrate after dividing by y' to get ln(y')+F(y)=c or y'*exp(F(y))=C, F'=f, so that in principle you could compute t(y) via simple quadrature, and then get the solution y(t) via inversion of the function value table.
Your example integrates to y'=C*(y-y*)^2, y(t)=y(0)/(1-C*y(0)*t), which could also lead to a singularity in the solution formula due to the denominator. This means that even if a solution exists, you will have to start quite close to it, else the solution process might have to cross a surface of singular Jacobians or other impossibilities, and will fail to continue at this point.

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Q: SQL Add hours for employees I have a table for employees signing in and out. They have a date and time field for in and out and an PersonID number that links to the employees name etc.
I need to work out the difference between the 2 dates and times then add them all together for each employee.
    select a.*,
           b.timein,
           b.timeout,
           datediff(mi,b.timein,b.timeout) as total_mins
    from tbl_people a
    left join tbl_register b on a.id=b.personid

Output:
+----+-----------+----------+-------------------------+-------------------------+------------+
| ID | FirstName | LastName |         TimeIn          |         TimeOut         | Total_Mins |
+----+-----------+----------+-------------------------+-------------------------+------------+
|  1 | David     | Test     | 2015-05-12 12:11:00.000 | 2015-05-12 12:13:00.000 |          2 |
|  2 | David     | Test     | 2015-05-12 12:15:00.000 | 2015-05-12 12:18:00.000 |          3 |
+----+-----------+----------+-------------------------+-------------------------+------------+

This is what im currently getting. I would like it to show one record for each person with the total amount of minutes worked.
Thanks in anticipation!

A: select
    ppl.FirstName + ' ' + ppl.LastName as 'Person',
    sum( datediff(mi, reg.timein, reg.timeout)) as 'total_mins'
from
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group by
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A: Basically you have at least 2 options:
Option 1 - Use DISTINCT and SUM with OVER clause:
SELECT DISTINCT a.*,
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FROM tbl_people a
LEFT JOIN tbl_register b ON a.id=b.personid

Option 2 - Use a derived table for the GROUP BY part:
SELECT a.*,
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from tbl_people a
left join (
    SELECT personid,
           SUM(DATEDIFF(mi, timein, timeout) AS total_mins
    FROM tbl_register
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Israel's Poll Prospects
19 June 1992 by Colin Shindler
Next Tuesday's election in Israel is wide open, according to the pollsters. The latest polls predict 59 seats for a Labour-led coalition, as opposed to 61 for Shamir's alliance of the right and the religious. But while Labour will probably emerge as the largest party, there are uneasy mutterings in Labour circles about the "British factor", and an almost fatalistic expectation that Likud will somehow close the gap in the final stages of the campaign.
Even so, Labour has undergone a remarkable facelift. The introduction of one-member-one-vote for candidate selections produced a high turnout and a rejuvenated parliamentary list, in stark contrast to Likud's byzantine factional bartering and leaks to the press of corruption in high places. In 1988, there was only a handful of Labour Knesset members under the age of 50. This year's list has produced six in their thirties and 18 in their forties, and a number of outspoken doves secured senior positions and assured seats in the next Knesset.
Despite this, the party's spin-doctors have placed the doves in quarantine and, as in Britain, there has been no mention of socialism. Kesher-Barel, the party's PR firm, has reversed perceptions of the main parties to mould an aggressive, macho Labour image. The military background of Labour's new leader, Yitzhak Rabin, victor of the Six Day war and advocate of bone-breaking at the outset of the Intifada, has been emphasised to attract floating voters who have doubts about Likud this time around. His lack of sophistication, his broken Hebrew, his nervous reluctance to press the flesh are seen as assets in comparison with his defeated rival for the labour leadership, Shimon Peres. Indeed, Labour have ensured that every ballot paper carries a sub-heading—"Labour under the leadership of Yitzhak Rabin".
In 1988, Labour and its dovish allies on the left secured 49 seats. In 1992, the target is a minimum of 55, which, together with six from the Arab parties, would constitute a blocking majority. This, in turn, should initiate some concerted re-thinking among religious parties such as Shas and Agudat Yisrael, whose essential aim is to remain in government to obtain funding for their rabbinical seminaries and educational institutions. A peace coalition of the secular left, the ultra-orthodox and Rabin's Labour, tacitly supported by the Arab parties, could then move forward, it is argued, to conclude an autonomy agreement—"peace in stages"—with the Palestinians.
If Labour emerges as the largest party, Rabin could propose yet another national unity government with Likud. While this would defuse the possible violent reaction of the far right to any proposed settlement in the occupied territories, the continued presence of Likud in government would inevitably neutralise real progress on the dialogue with the Palestinians. As in Britain, the "undecided"—estimated at over 20 per cent by one poll—may yet go with the devil they know. Even so, many people—Israelis and Palestinians, Jews and Arabs—will be holding their breath during the next few days, hoping that a solution to 25 inglorious years of death and destruction in the West Bank and Gaza may soon be at hand.
New Statesman editorial 19 June 1992
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Israel: Ethnic cleansing in the Negev
The forced relocation of Bedouins in southern Israel fits Foreign Affairs' definition of ethnic cleansing.
Ben White
Ben White is a freelance writer specialising in Palestine and Israel.
Israel has been demolishing the homes of the Bedouin in Be'er Sheva in order to relocate them [GALLO/GETTY]
In September 2011, Israel's government approved a plan to forcibly relocate tens of thousands of Bedouin citizens in the Negev from their unrecognised villages to government-approved shanty towns. The Prawer Plan, as it is known, advanced again in March this year, when it was endorsed by a committee in the Prime Minister's Office.
Around half of the Bedouin population in Israel live in 45 "unrecognised villages", with a handful in the "process of recognition" by the state (see Israeli NGO Adalah's "Myths and Misconceptions"). The Israeli government wants to force them out, claiming that their "squatting" is taking over the Negev. In fact, while constituting 30 per cent of the region's population, today Bedouin are claiming "less than five per cent of the total area".
Although the law that will serve as the implementing arm of the Prawer Plan has not yet begun the legislative process in the Knesset, events on the ground indicate that the focus on demolition and displacement is already shaping policy targeting the Bedouin. In other words: Prawer is happening now.
Many homes have been demolished this year already. In September, dozens of structures were destroyed in a single day, in what was proudly described by the Israel Land Administration as a "rolling enforcement operation" against "invasions" of state land. Then on October 11, the recognised village of Bir Hadaj was raided and officials posted demolition orders on four homes, prompting protests from village residents and a harsh response from police.
Last week, as Bir Hadaj suffered more repression and a large demonstration was held in Be'er Sheva – and as the village of Al-Arakib was demolished once more – the Israeli government announced its intention to split the Abu Basma Regional Council in two. The Council "is the appointed municipal government for the recently-recognised Arab Bedouin villages", and was meant to hold its first elections this December. This new decision "will postpone the democratic process for five years – exactly the time necessary to implement the Prawer Plan".
Meanwhile, the government continues to push forward initiatives for the creation of new Jewish communities in the Negev – such as Hiran, which "will be built in place of the Bedouin village" Umm al-Hiran. The latter's residents learned of the failure of the appeal against the evacuation and destructionof their village in late September.
"If Zionism is a motivating force, then it needs to travel south to the Negev, so that Israel does not turn into a Palestinian State"
– Avishai Braverman
The plan for Hiran is part of a broader initiative confirmed by the cabinet a year ago, to create ten new Jewish villages in the northern Negev near the Green Line. The goal, according to World Zionist Organisation official Yaron Ben Ezra, is "to grab the last remaining piece of land and thereby prevent further Bedouin incursion into any more state land and the development of an Arab belt".
The week before the demolition orders were delivered in Bir Hadaj, Israel's Minister of Public Diplomacy Yuli Edelstein spoke at a conference on an "Emergency Campaign to Save the Negev". Coverage before the event promised that the Minister would "speak about ethnic demographics and illegal building", while a post-conference report quoted Edelstein as urging an end to "the merry-go-round cycle of lawful eviction of illegal settlements followed by the immediate return of illegal squatting".
For years, the rhetoric of Israeli politicians towards the Negev has emphasised "demography" and the need to "save" the land from non-Jewish citizens. In 2004, the then-Minister for Minority Affairs Avishai Braverman stated that "if Zionism is a motivating force, then it needs to travel south to the Negev, so that Israel does not turn into a Palestinian State".
The following year, Shimon Peres – like Braverman, a "moderate" in the Israeli political spectrum – told US officials that Israel had "lost" land in the Negev "to the Bedouin" and would need to take steps to "relieve" the "demographic threat". In 2010, Netanyahu warned in a government meeting that a Negev "without a Jewish majority" would pose "a palpable threat".
Move threatens homes of Israel's Bedouins
One of the bodies working with the Israeli government to "Judaise" the Negev is the Jewish Agency. In 2003, the then-treasurer Shai Hermesh spoke of "need[ing] the Negev for the next generation of Jewish immigrants", while "the trouble with the Bedouin is they're still on the edge between tradition and civilisation". He added: "It is not in Israel's interest to have more Palestinians in the Negev". Later that year, Hermesh spoke of a plan "to settle new rural communities in sensitive areas of the Negev where most of it is settled illegally by Bedouins". The initiative was needed, he said, because "the birthrate of the Bedouins and Arabs in the Galilee is much faster than the Jewish" and thus "we are quickly losing our majority there".
Demography and discrimination, birthrate anxiety and home demolitions: The propaganda about a "progressive democracy" rings hollow indeed. No wonder that earlier this year, in a wide-ranging report highlighting policies of segregation and colonisation, the UN's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) urged Israel to cancel the Prawer Plan "which would legalise the ongoing policy of home demolitions and forced displacement of the indigenous Bedouin communities".
There is a grim familiarity about new efforts by Israel at expulsion – during the Nakba in 1948, the vast majority of the Negev's Bedouin population were expelled, while those who remained were forcibly relocated to an area known as the "Siyag" ("fence" or "closure"). Sixty four years later, the Nakba continues. In a 1993 article for Foreign Affairs, a "general" definition of ethnic cleansing was offered: "the expulsion of an "undesirable" population from a given territory due to religious or ethnic discrimination, political, strategic or ideological considerations, or a combination of these". This is the ugly reality of the Israeli government's "development" of the Negev, and international governments and civil society need to take appropriate action before it is too late.
Ben White is a freelance journalist, writer and activist, specialising in Palestine/Israel. He is a graduate of Cambridge University.
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Il Tempo è un quotidiano italiano, fondato a Roma da Renato Angiolillo nel maggio 1944.

Storia

La fondazione

Nella Roma occupata dai nazisti Renato Angiolillo acquistò due testate:
l'Italia, una storica testata fondata a Torino da Camillo Cavour nel 1859. Nel 1943 gli fu ceduta dall'editore Leproti (il quotidiano di Angiolillo ereditò il numero delle annate, LXXXVI);
Il Tempo, quotidiano fondato a Roma da Filippo Naldi nel 1917 e chiuso pochi anni dopo.

A partire dal 6 maggio 1944 aveva fatto uscire l'Italia con distribuzione clandestina. Nei primi giorni di giugno l'avanzata degli Alleati si fece inarrestabile, la Liberazione di Roma sempre più vicina. Il 5 giugno il quotidiano uscì, finalmente alla luce del sole, annunciando la liberazione della capitale. Stampato in una vecchia tipografia in via Mario de' Fiori, nel centro di Roma, il primo numero recava la testata «Il Tempo» seguito da «l'Italia». Angiolillo prese la decisione di cambiare il titolo negli ultimi minuti prima di andare in stampa. Nella sottotestata apparve l'indicazione «Quotidiano socialdemocratico». Il giornale era composto da un unico foglio, come gli altri quotidiani, ed era venduto al prezzo di 50 centesimi di lira. La redazione si trovava in piazza di Pietra.

Dopo due soli numeri Il Tempo venne sospeso dal Psychological Warfare Branch alleato per violazione degli accordi sulla stampa intercorsi tra il CLN ed il comando alleato. Angiolillo e il condirettore Leonida Rèpaci si diedero da fare perché venisse revocato il provvedimento e, dopo soli due giorni di sospensione, il 9 giugno Il Tempo ritornò in edicola, con la nuova sottotestata «Quotidiano indipendente». Nei primi mesi il giornale fu compilato da Angiolillo, Rèpaci (condirettore) e da quattro colleghi: Guglielmo Serafini, Carlo Scaparro, Gaspare Gresti e Marcello Zeri. In una Roma in cui tutti i principali quotidiani, tra cui anche Il Messaggero, erano stati sospesi per collusione con il passato regime, per Il Tempo fu facile farsi conoscere dal pubblico dei lettori. Molti giornalisti erano senza lavoro ed accettarono di buon grado di collaborare al nuovo quotidiano. Tra essi anche i corrispondenti romani dei quotidiani del Nord, ancora sotto il regime della Repubblica Sociale. Tra il 1944 e il 1945 Il Tempo si avvalse della collaborazione di grandi firme: Corrado Alvaro, Massimo Bontempelli, Vitaliano Brancati, Emilio Cecchi, Virgilio Lilli e Vittorio Giovanni Rossi. E ancora: Vincenzo Cardarelli, Antonio Baldini, Mario Praz, Alberto Savinio, Alberto Moravia, Dino Terra e Guido Piovene.

Nello stesso anno, il 1944, il quotidiano lanciò la pubblicazione in esclusiva dei «Diari» di Galeazzo Ciano, gerarca del fascismo, diventando rapidamente il primo quotidiano della capitale con una tiratura di  copie. Angiolillo capì che i lettori del quotidiano appartenevano alla borghesia, alla classe media. Impresse quindi una virata alla linea politica del quotidiano, che passò da socialdemocratico a conservatore. La rottura con Rèpaci fu inevitabile. Alla fine dell'anno il sodalizio si sciolse.

L'epoca Angiolillo
Nel 1945, quando i grandi quotidiani (Messaggero, Giornale d'Italia) poterono finalmente tornare nelle edicole, Il Tempo si era già formato un pubblico di lettori consolidato: era il quotidiano più letto nella capitale. Renato Angiolillo continuò nelle vesti di editore unico e direttore allo stesso tempo.

In un'Italia spaccata in due tra fascisti ed antifascisti, Il Tempo ospitò nelle pagine della cultura le opinioni degli intellettuali dell'una e dell'altra parte. Il dialogo, che continuò anche durante i processi di epurazione, favorì la creazione di un clima di conciliazione nazionale.

Il direttore-editore allargò la propria diffusione a tutto il Mezzogiorno d'Italia. Nei primi anni del dopoguerra la tiratura raggiunse la vetta di  copie. La sede venne trasferita nello storico Palazzo Wedekind, in piazza Colonna, dove il giornale risiede tuttora. Successivamente venne aperta una sede anche a Milano dove nacque l'edizione dedicata al Nord: Il Tempo di Milano. L'edizione milanese ebbe un proprio direttore, Giovanni Mosca.
Lavoravano nel quotidiano romano all'inizio degli anni cinquanta: Vittorio Zincone, editorialista (che, dopo una parentesi di due anni al Resto del Carlino, tornò nel 1955 come vicedirettore), poi Guido Guidi, cronista giudiziario; Alberto Giubilo, allo sport, Igor Man agli esteri. Titolare della nota politica (detta in gergo "pastone") era Salvatore Aponte.

Altre firme de Il Tempo erano Alberto Giovannini e Alberto Consiglio, titolari di popolari rubriche: Lettera della domenica il primo (che trattava di politica e soprattutto di costume); "Formicaio" e "Disco Rosso" il secondo. Anche Nantas Salvalaggio, all'epoca cronista, teneva una sua rubrica: Un giorno in pretura. Redattore capo era il giovane Egidio Sterpa. Un altro giornalista arrivato dal Corriere era Italo Zingarelli, presto soprannominato il "figlio del vocabolario". Il primo degli inviati del quotidiano era Virgilio Lilli. Ma va ricordato anche Gianni Granzotto, corrispondente da Parigi. Altra firma nota è stato Attilio Foti, in forza al giornale dal 1955, per anni responsabile degli Interni oltre che inviato.

La parte culturale del giornale era diretta dal critico letterario Enrico Falqui. Tra i collaboratori vi erano Giotto Dainelli, Augusto Del Noce, Giorgio Del Vecchio, Curzio Malaparte, Alberto Moravia, Mario Praz, Giuseppe Prezzolini, Niccolò Rodolico, Enrico Sacchetti, Alberto Savinio, Emilio Servadio e Gioacchino Volpe. Il critico teatrale era Silvio D'Amico, il critico musicale era Guido Pannain mentre le recensioni cinematografiche furono affidate a Vittorio Bonicelli (dal 1950 al 1960), e poi a Gian Luigi Rondi.

Anche negli anni sessanta Il Tempo fu il quotidiano più venduto della capitale. Dal 1965 per vent'anni il curatore della Terza pagina fu Fausto Gianfranceschi. Apparvero scritti di Augusto Del Noce, Mario Praz, Ettore Paratore, Franco Cardini, Marcello Veneziani e Paolo Isotta.

Dal 1973 ad oggi
Il 16 agosto 1973 morì Renato Angiolillo. Come suo successore fu designato il direttore amministrativo del giornale Gianni Letta, in servizio al Tempo fin dal 1958. Letta guidò il quotidiano per quasi 14 anni, fino all'aprile del 1987. Durante la sua direzione il giornale si mantenne sopra le  copie vendute. Nel 1982 il quotidiano ebbe una tiratura media di  copie.

Nel 1993 il Tempo era in buona salute: 120 giornalisti confezionavano un quotidiano che vendeva intorno alle  copie al giorno. Ma i rapporti con la proprietà erano pessimi. All'inizio di marzo si diffuse la voce che la proprietà aveva raccolto un dossier con il profilo professionale e privato su ciascun giornalista. Il 10 marzo i giornalisti entrarono in sciopero protestando contro la violazione dello Statuto dei lavoratori per 39 giorni, fino all'intervento risolutore della presidenza del Consiglio ad aprile inoltrato.

Il quotidiano faticò molto a riprendersi e subì un calo di copie. Nel 1995–96 ebbe una ripresa, con Gianni Mottola direttore, Bruno Costi vicedirettore e Carlo Palumbo capocronista: ritornò sopra le centomila copia di tiratura e raggiunse una quota di vendite giornaliere pari a  copie. Fino al 2007 il quotidiano usciva in formato lenzuolo con doppio dorso: nel dorso interno era presente il fascicolo dedicato all'edizione locale. Il 4 ottobre 2007 la proprietà acquistò di una nuova rotativa allo scopo di stampare in un nuovo formato cartaceo. Da allora «Il Tempo» esce in formato berlinese monodorso. Contestualmente fu rinnovata la grafica e venne introdotta la stampa a colori su tutte le pagine. Nello stesso anno fu potenziato il sito web.

La testata ospita da alcuni anni lo spazio satirico di Federico Palmaroli "Le più belle frasi di Osho".

Variazioni dell'assetto proprietario
Sin dalla fondazione, Il Tempo è stato di proprietà di Renato Angiolillo, che fu anche unico proprietario dell'editrice del quotidiano, la Società Editrice Romana (SER). Successivamente intercorsero le seguenti variazioni:
Nel 1957 la SER diviene una società per azioni.
Nel 1958 l'armatore genovese Ernesto Fassio diviene comproprietario della SER al 50%. Nel giro di qualche anno rivende le proprie azioni allo stesso Angiolillo.
Nel 1966 la proprietà del giornale passa all'industriale ravennate Attilio Monti.
Nel 1981, al momento dell'approvazione della nuova legge sull'editoria, la SER è controllata dal costruttore Carlo Pesenti, che poi assume il controllo dell'intero pacchetto azionario.
Nel 1987 Pesenti cede il 50% della SER alla Poligrafici Editoriale del Gruppo Monti.
Nel 1990 la Poligrafici rileva il restante 50%. Il Gruppo Monti divenne per la seconda volta proprietario del Tempo.
Nel febbraio 1995, il Gruppo Monti cede il quotidiano al costruttore romano Francesco Gaetano Caltagirone per 81 miliardi di lire.
Nel luglio 1996 il Gruppo Caltagirone cede la proprietà del giornale al costruttore Domenico Bonifaci per 70 miliardi di lire.
Nel settembre 2016 la famiglia Angelucci acquisisce il quotidiano per 12,5 milioni di euro.

Direttori
 Renato Angiolillo (5 giugno 1944 - 16 agosto 1973)
 Leonida Rèpaci (condirettore, giugno 1944 - dicembre 1944)
Scelti dal gruppo Monti
 Gianni Letta (17 agosto 1973-17 aprile 1987)
 Gaspare Barbiellini Amidei (18 aprile 1987 - 31 maggio 1989)
 Franco Cangini (1º giugno 1989 - 20 marzo 1991)
 Marcello Lambertini (21 marzo 1991 - 6 marzo 1993)
 Giovanni Mottola (7 marzo 1993 - febbraio 1995)
Scelti dal gruppo Caltagirone
 Giovanni Mottola (febbraio 1995 - novembre 1995)
Scelti da Bonifaci
 Giovanni Mottola (novembre 1995 - 15 settembre 1996)
 "pro tempore" Gian Paolo Cresci (16 settembre - 21 ottobre 1996)
 Maurizio Belpietro (22 ottobre 1996 - 19 marzo 1997)
 Gian Paolo Cresci (20 marzo 1997 - 8 ottobre 1999)
 Mauro Trizzino (9 ottobre 1999 - 2 maggio 2000)
 Giuseppe Sanzotta (3 maggio 2000 - 1º agosto 2001)
 Mino Allione (2 agosto 2001 - 1º dicembre 2002)
 Franco Bechis (2 dicembre 2002 - 31 gennaio 2006)
 Gaetano Pedullà (1º febbraio 2006 - 11 maggio 2007)
 Giuseppe Sanzotta (12 maggio 2007 - 7 dicembre 2008)
 Roberto Arditti (8 dicembre 2008 - 7 febbraio 2010)
 Mario Sechi (8 febbraio 2010 - 9 gennaio 2013)
 Sarina Biraghi (10 gennaio - settembre 2013)
Confermati dall'attuale proprietà
 Gian Marco Chiocci (settembre 2013 - 18 novembre 2018)
 Franco Bechis (19 novembre 2018 - 28 febbraio 2022)
 Davide Vecchi (1º marzo 2022 - in carica)

Edizioni locali
Il Tempo è disponibile in una sola edizione nazionale, ma in passato ha avuto diverse edizioni locali. La più duratura è stata quella di Abruzzo e Molise, unificate dopo il restyling del 2007, che è terminata il 31 ottobre 2014.

Oggi il quotidiano è venduto in abbinamento a testate locali nel Lazio e in Umbria:
 Nel Lazio: Il Tempo + Il Corriere di Viterbo, Il Tempo + Il Corriere di Rieti, Il Tempo + Latina Oggi, Il Tempo + Ciociaria Oggi;
 In Umbria (a Terni e provincia): Il Tempo + Corriere dell'Umbria

Diffusione
La diffusione di un quotidiano si ottiene, secondo i criteri dell'ADS, dalla somma di: Totale Pagata + Totale Gratuita + Diffusione estero + Vendite in blocco.

Note

Altri progetti

Collegamenti esterni

 Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Roma: Il Tempo (raccolta digitale dal 1945 al 1992)

Tempo, Il
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Maybe it shouldn't have, but Jurassic World made my weekend and quite possibly my summer. And since I'm still pretty excited about it, the most sophisticated way I can organize my thoughts is to simply list the bad stuff, then the good stuff, so here goes.
World compares itself to Jurassic Park every time it turns around, which isn't always the most flattering thing. World's characters are mostly caricatures and don't stack up well to the original cast. In Park, computer whiz/DNA-snatcher Dennis Nedry (Wayne Knight), as hyper gross as he was, felt real. In World, the nerd who needs a girlfriend feels like a type. Mr. Arnold (Samuel L. Jackson) was sarcastic, pragmatic, funny, impatient, instantly likable. In World, the girl who has a boyfriend feels like a really good robot. John Hammond (Richard Attenborough) was cheerful, childish, lavish, loving, blindly optimistic. In World, Mr. Masrani (Irrfan Khan) is ludicrous in everything from flying his own helicopter (like they'd let him) to his self-righteous indignation at everything going sideways in his park.
Hoskins is a bit better, but only because of Vincent D'Onofrio, who last I checked was brutally bald and beating up on Daredevil, and before that, he was just the scruffy, mild-mannered, soft-spoken big brother to Robert Downey Jr. in The Judge. The man can play any part he wants, and his spot-on performance in World makes us feel like there's more to his character than meets the screenplay. His death would have actually resonated (as in, we might have actually wanted it) if they'd given us a few additional details on motivation, dreams, how and why he got this way, etc.
As for Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard), if she doesn't make the movie, at least she doesn't break it. Running around in a white dress and high heels, she could have gotten seriously annoying, but Bryce brings charisma and likability to a pretty chancy role and is truly a beast in those heels. Her relationship with Chris Pratt's charming, capable, swaggering male makes a fun throwback to Romancing the Stone, Han Solo and Leia, et al., and I could only wish they had gone further with it by going further with her.
1) The opening. Jurassic Park mimicked Jaws with a terrific and terrifying launch, but World gives a weird, pointless egg scene that ties into nothing. Five seconds in and I was bored and ticked off and actually a little numb with shock that they would kick off with such a dumb scene.
2) Dialogue. Michael Crichton has a knack for realistic conversation; so does David Koepp (who co-wrote the JP screenplay and other nifty things like Premium Rush). I know I keep using the word real, but seriously, the original movie's dialogue convinces you these people are real which is HUGE if you're going to care for them later on. When people say things people don't really say, then we don't believe they're real, and who gives a darn—it's all just a parade of pictures. World has quite a bit of dialogue that falls flat, a fair amount that is atrocious ("If anything chases you, run"?????), and none that rings as beautifully as the first film's. Crichton and Koepp, get back here! Or how about the World writing team—y'all simply get out your pads and pencils, go to a coffee shop, and record the conversations of actual people until you have an ear for it? I promise I'll sit through two more movies either way.
3) Stupid humans, smart dinosaurs. I'm not a scaredy-cat, but going into a cage (even if you think the big, deadly, not-a-good-idea, cannibalistic freak is really, really gone) is still really, really stupid. Why do we need to check on the claw marks from inside? Anybody ever heard of binoculars? Why isn't this ex-Navy dino-trainer immediately helping to organize the search? Of course, Claire wouldn't want him to, but of course, Owen wouldn't care. He'd do it anyway.
4) PHONES. Gosh. In a park this high-tech, you'd have reception everywhere. Even if you didn't, even if all hell really does break loose, the I-can't-hear-the-important-thing-you're-trying-to-tell-me-because-reception's-bad device should be used only once (if that) in any movie. Both times here (when Owen is in the crossbred's cage and when the boys are in the hamster ball), we feel the yank of strings. The storytellers are recycling easy mishaps and manipulating the story.
5) Stopping to mourn the dead whatever-you-call-them. Please. I understand you're trying to show us that Claire is having a change of heart, blah blah blah, but Owen would not have stopped. The fact that he calmly does so (and the storytellers calmly let him) betrays the storytellers' own hand; since they aren't worried about what's happening to the two stranded kids wandering through a kill zone off-screen, neither are we. Tension evaporates.
6) Owen's raptor-whisperer trick succeeds for about half the movie. It even sort of works through the motorcycle hunt. But it totally falls apart when the raptor starts giving the humans significant looks. Colin Trevorrow should have studied the look in "tamed" lions the moment they turn on their trainers. Go for pure beastly and cross my heart, hope to die, I promise I won't have any reason to roll my eyes.
7) Pretty much all the dinosaur attacks feel like we're just going through the motions. Like Godzilla did to us last summer, World needed to make us feel like we were seeing dinosaurs for the first time. Pretend like it's never been done before. Treat us to their size, their terror—hello, the fact that these extinct behemoths are even here. Nothing in World comes close to the scariest highlights of Jurassic Park: the opening raptor attack, T-rex attacking the kid in the car, Nedry getting blinded and eaten, and the kids alone with the raptors in the kitchen. There were a few thrilling moments (like when Owen is hiding under the truck; anything's scary when grown men are scared), but the majority of the action scenes feel rushed and repetitive like the filmmakers have no confidence we'd actually believe them if they took their time and pretended like they were the first ones to do this.
8) Killing people willy nilly. The silly man going down in the helicopter is bad, mostly because we don't miss him but also because the storytellers throw him so lazily. Claire's posh assistant getting tossed and drowned and repeatedly scissored is worse. We don't like or dislike her nearly enough for her to be treated so. Now the storytellers are just being mean, wasting time, and showing off on their computers. In Jurassic Park, the deaths of heroes like Muldoon and Mr. Arnold are horrible; so are the deaths of people we dislike (the lawyer) and loathe (Nedry). World robs us of real heroes and real villains and then knocks them off irresponsibly. Badly done.
9) Act III. Screenwriters frequently forget that each act needs its own beginning, middle, and end, with a cohesive arc and compelling flow. Jurassic Park had it. World does not. Jurassic Park's third act was unbelievably tense and amazingly focused with everything narrowing down to just two raptors, four humans: hunted, chased, cornered, hunted and chased and cornered again till there was no way out…and then T-rex! One exclamation point and we're done! World's climax is a risible dogpile of dinosaurs that left me plumb tuckered out and so many kinds of bored. Keeping the T-rex invisible throughout the movie is smart. Luring him out with a flare is fabulous. But then everything goes to pot, because overkill is underrated, right? And we lose the monsters inside each other like so many Russian nesting dolls.
10) The music. Jeepers. Michael Giacchino usually manages to be obnoxious all by himself (his melodies have so many weird, unpleasing intervals), but you'd think he could have handled a melody written for him decently enough, but no. John Williams' theme gets plastered all over the boys' arrival at the park worse than pin the tail on the donkey. Not even getting warm, Mr. Giacchino!
But almost none of that really matters because despite tripping so many times, Jurassic World somehow manages to get up and win. Here's how.
1) The fact that it wasn't flat-out terrible even when it was really, really, really bad.
2) All the sweet nods to Jurassic Park. (Some were not sweet, like the hatching scene, but I mean the sweet ones.) Forget an accidental return to the island—thanks for nothing, JP III—the old park itself is here! Dr. Wu! The gate! The jeeps and night-vision goggles and visitor center and road flares!
Even more fun are the subtler echoes. In Jurassic Park, the kids struggle over the flashlight while the younger says to the older, "Turn it off!" In World, the kids struggle over the stun gun while the younger says to the older, "Turn it on!" Owen and Claire hide behind the car in the garage in the exact same position as Lex and Tim hide from the raptors in the kitchen. A kid who doesn't want to jump ends up jumping after someone yells, "One! Two!", footprints indicate that people made it out of the wrecked vehicle, and in both movies, the parents of the kids are getting divorced. If you remember more, drop them in the comments! These are just off the top of my head. I should have brought a pen and pad to the theater to tally them on the spot.
But we also like what's behind his character—the Prattness of Pratt. The real guy (as directors, crew, co-stars, and show hosts will attest) is friendly without being condescending, funny without being dumb, and honest without being full of himself. He adores his wife. He teaches his son the Pledge of Allegiance. He quotes Psalms on Facebook. And it all comes through in his acting.
A year ago, I knew nothing about Christ Pratt and cared even less. Now I hear he's signed on for two more Jurassic movies and I'm not even afraid of how idiotic they'll be. Of course they'll be idiotic (though I'd love to be surprised). But with Pratt on board, I'm buying my tickets now. And keeping my fingers crossed for Indiana Jones. Because right? Right.
If Indiana Jones doesn't happen via Hollywood, there's always GoPo Productions, right? Let's Kickstarter this thing.


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Henri Eliot
Henri is the Practice Leader for Corporate Governance. He works out of the Sydney office.
Henri is one of Australasia's most experienced board consulting partners
Henri's career began in London with JP Morgan Chase and PwC. He then went on to hold a number of senior executive positions at Deloitte in New York City and the Bank of Montreal in Toronto
Henri provides independent and informed advice to chairmen and directors on the effectiveness and impact of the board and its committees, and offers an advisory process which is flexible, forward looking, intellectually engaging and unbureaucratic
Henri is a non executive director of an asset management company, an agricultural company and an innovation and advisory company.
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Henri Eliot is a monthly columnist for the New Zealand Herald and a regular contributor to a number of publications including the National Business Review and Idealog magazine
He received his LLB (Hons) from the University of London, MBA from Richmond University in the UK and his Political Science Degree from McGill University in Canada. Henri has also graduated from two executive leadership programs at the University of Western Ontario in Canada (2003) and the University of Waikato in New Zealand (2009). He received his Project Management Professional (PMP) qualification in 2006
Fellow of the Australasia Financial Services Institute (Finsia)
Fellow of the New Zealand Institute of Management (NZIM)
Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD)
Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Director (IoD).