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Presided: 1 - KAY BARNES
Present: 12 - DEB HERMANN, BILL SKAGGS, BONNIE COOPER, JOHN FAIRFIELD, TROY NASH, SAUNDRA MCFADDEN-WEAVER, JIM GLOVER, JIM ROWLAND, BECKY NACE, TERRY RILEY, ALVIN BROOKS, CHARLES EDDY
Saluting An Wei, president of the Sino-American Society in Xi'an, China.
Ayes: 13 - Hermann, Skaggs, Cooper, Fairfield, Nash, McFadden-Weaver, Glover, Rowland, Nace, Riley, Brooks, Eddy, Barnes
Honoring John W. Laney on his retirement from the Hall Family Foundation.
Honoring Donovan Mouton on receiving the Black Achievers in Business and Industry Award from the Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Greater Kansas City.
COMMUNICATION - Notice received from the City Clerk regarding the certification of four candidates Diane Charity, Ronald Williams, Marilyn Simmons, and Richard Tolbert in the recall election to be held on February 8, 2005.
(Sub.) RESOLUTION - Recognizing the need to adequately provide for ambulance services and protect residents and visitors from infectious, environmental and terrorist threats; recognizing the need to provide citizens of Kansas City with access to acute, primary and emergency care; and expressing the intent of the City Council to restore funding for public health services to Fiscal Year 2003-2004 levels and require recipients of health levy funds to perform annual program audits, should the health levy increase be approved by voters on April 5, 2005.
Councilmember Skaggs Move to Amend
Increase number of years from 7 to 9.
Seconded by Councilmember Brooks
strike from amendment; public health services from levy
Seconded by Councilmember Eddy
Ayes: 10 - Hermann, Skaggs, Cooper, Fairfield, Nash, McFadden-Weaver, Glover, Rowland, Brooks, Eddy
Nays: 3 - Nace, Riley, Barnes
Adopted as Committee Substitute Further Amended
(Sub.) RESOLUTION - Approving the preparation and submission of an application to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in accordance with the Comprehensive Environmental Response and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), as amended, for two $200,000.00 Brownfield Cleanup Grants.
Adopted as Substituted
Ayes: 12 - Hermann, Cooper, Fairfield, Nash, McFadden-Weaver, Glover, Rowland, Nace, Riley, Brooks, Eddy, Barnes
Releasing a sanitary sewer easement located in Shawnee Mission, Johnson County, Kansas and directing the City Clerk of Kansas City Missouri, to record such release.
Authorizing an Indemnification Agreement running with the land between Dean Realty Company and Kansas City, in connection with construction of three retaining walls over and across the sewer located within the easement in the area of State Line Road and Bi-State Drive.
(Sub.) Amending Sections 54-1, 54-2, 54-31, and 54-33, Code of Ordinances, dealing with pawnbrokers by requiring the electronic transfer of required information from pawnbrokers to a third party database, approved by the chief of police; adding incarceration as a potential punishment; amending the definition of person of good moral character; removing a requirement that sureties be residents of Kansas City; and requiring daily computer entries be made of persons leaving or selling goods.
Accepting and approving a one year contract amendment with the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services that provides funding for sanitation inspections for child care facilities, for an amount not to exceed $44,080.00; reestimating revenue in the amount of $3,078.00 in the Governmental Grants Fund; and appropriating it to the Local Sanitation Inspections account of the Governmental Grants Fund.
Giving permission to Ollie Gates, d/b/a as O.G. Investments, his successors, and assigns, to extend, and maintain a parking lot within the Kansas City, Missouri public right of way of Brooklyn Avenue, north of 12th Street; assessing an encroachment fee in the amount of $831.60; and estimating revenue in the amount of $831.60.
Councilmember Eddy Move to Waive Charter Requirement
move that the charter requirements for the reading of ordinance no(s): 050042, 041259 (3rd sub), 041361, 050039, 050045, 050026, and 050037 (sub) on three separate days be waived and that these ordinances be advanced for final reading and consideration at this time.
Seconded by Councilmember Riley
Approving the plat of ClyMar Ridge, an addition in Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri; accepting and releasing various easements; establishing grades on public ways; authorizing the Director of Public Works to execute certain agreements; authorizing the Director of Public Works to accept a certain agreement; and authorizing the City Clerk to file this ordinance and attached agreements.
(Sub.) Providing for submission to the qualified voters of the City for their approval at an election called for Tuesday, April 5, 2005, the question of temporarily increasing the ad valorem tax levy for a period of nine years for ambulance services, emergency medical services, hospital and public health purposes by twenty-two cents ($.22) per one hundred dollars ($100.00) assessed valuation on real and tangible personal property within the City; directing the City Clerk to notify the responsible election authorities of this election; and recognizing this ordinance to be an emergency measure.
from 7-9 years
Ayes: 12 - Hermann, Skaggs, Cooper, Fairfield, Nash, McFadden-Weaver, Glover, Rowland, Nace, Brooks, Eddy, Barnes
Nays: 1 - Riley
Passed As Third Sub As Further Amended
Authorizing a $2,349,838.00 systems implementation and software licensing contract with Environmental Systems Research Institute, Inc. for work in Phase II of the Enterprise GIS Project, to include implementation of an Enterprise GIS Database, redesign of data maintenance procedures, and redesign of the City external web mapping site to include e-commerce capability; and authorizing the expenditure of previously appropriated funds in an amount not to exceed $2,631,091.00.
Ayes: 11 - Hermann, Skaggs, Cooper, Fairfield, Nash, Glover, Rowland, Nace, Riley, Eddy, Barnes
Authorizing the Director of Finance to accept the proposal of Banc of America Leasing & Capital, LLC for financing the acquisition of an emergency rescue pumper and accompanying equipment for the City of Kansas City, Missouri, in an aggregate principal amount of $375,717.00; executing any and all documents and agreements necessary for the financing under a Master Lease Purchase Agreement; estimating and appropriating lease proceeds in accounts as specifically set forth in the ordinance; appropriating debt service payments for fiscal year 2004-05; declaring the intent of the City to reimburse itself from the lease purchase proceeds for certain expenditures; authorizing the Director of Finance to close project accounts upon project completion; and designating requisitioning authorities.
Ayes: 10 - Hermann, Skaggs, Cooper, Fairfield, Nash, Glover, Nace, Riley, Eddy, Barnes
Estimating revenue in the Capital Improvements Fund; appropriating funds in the amount of $39,755.00 to the Amity Woods Nature Park—Parking Lot Project account in the Capital Improvements Fund; and designating the Board of Parks and Recreation Commissioners as requisitioning authority.
Vacating a portion of N.E. Staley Road east of N. Woodland Avenue, Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri and directing the City Clerk to record certain documents. (1458-V)
(Sub.) Approving the plat of Staley Farms Townhomes, an addition in Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri; accepting various easements and a certain deed; establishing grades on public ways; authorizing the Director of Public Works to execute certain agreements; authorizing the Director of Public Works to accept certain agreements; and authorizing the City Clerk to file this ordinance and attached agreements.
move that the charter requirement for the reading of ordinances on three separate occasions is waived for the ordinances on second reading on page 6 of todays docket and that these ordinances be placed on the docket next week for third reading.
Authorizing the execution of the lease between Kansas City, Missouri and VML, Inc.
Authorizing the execution of a five year Ground Transportation Concession Agreement with KCI Shuttle at Kansas City International Airport.
(Sub.) Authorizing 11 one year leases and contracts with five one-year options to renew for farm land at Kansas City International Airport and Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport.
To establish Sewer District No. 20021, in Sewer Division No. 20, in Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri, being generally located in the vicinity of N.E. 55th Street and N.E. Meadowbrook Rd.
Approving Traffic Regulation Nos. 57839 through 57945.
(Sub.) RESOLUTION - Determining that the Jazz District Tax Increment Financing Plan is making satisfactory progress under the time schedule proposed within the plan for completion.
move that the charter requirment for the reading of ordinances on three separate occasions be waived for the ordinances on first reading on pages 7-9 of todays docket and that these ordinances be introduced as listed to the committees so designated.
Setting March 31, 2005 as the final date by which the annual budget for fiscal year 2005 – 2006 must be adopted.
Referred to Budget and Audit Committee
Appropriating the sum of $157,960.00 from the Kansas City Museum account of the Museum Fund.
RESOLUTION - Authorizing the development of financing for improvements to the Kansas City International Airport for a consolidated rental car facility through the issuance of subordinated taxable airport revenue bonds by the City in an approximate principal amount not to exceed $60,000,000.00; authorizing certain other actions pursuant thereto; and declaring the City's official intent to reimburse from bond proceeds.
Referred to Finance Committee
Reducing an appropriation in the Capital Improvements Fund in the amount of $250,000.00 and appropriating this sum to an account in the Capital Improvements Fund for Walnut and Grand - 11th and 12th Streetscape; reducing three appropriations in the General Obligation Bond Fund in the amount of $1,358,742.00 and appropriating this sum to the following accounts in the following amounts in the General Obligation Bond Fund; City Hall Life Safety - $1,094,993.00; Citywide Retaining Wall Program - $45,562.00; Berkley Park Utilities - $218,187.00; and authorizing a $218,187.00 Cooperative Agreement with the Port Authority of Kansas City, Missouri for Berkley Park Utility project.
Reducing Blue River appropriations in the Capital Improvements Fund totaling $3,911,488.27 from the Department of Public Works; reappropriating a total of $3,911,488.27 from the Unappropriated Fund Balance of the Capital Improvements Fund to the Department of Water Services; authorizing transfer between accounts of encumbrances relating to Special Projects; and designating requisitioning authority.
Referred to Operations Committee
Authorizing a $125,064.00 Amendment No. 3 with Durkin Equipment Company, for Contract No. 7916, Service/Maintenance for the Chlorine Feed Equipment and Atmospheric Monitoring Instrumentation at the Water Treatment Plant; authorizing the Director of Water Services to expend $137,500.00 for this project; and authorizing the Director of Finance to return unexpended appropriations to the appropriate account.
Condemning and taking private property for flood protection improvements, for the purpose of construction, reconstruction, maintenance, operation, patrol, and repair of flood protection improvements, recreational and related purposes and any and all appurtenances incidental thereto in, under, along, upon, over and through that reach of the Blue River known as Byram's Ford Industrial Park; providing for the payment of just compensation thereof; and authorizing negotiations by the Director of City Development and the Director of Water Services, all in Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri.
Authorizing the Director of Public Works to execute a construction manager at risk (CM@Risk) contract with M.A. Mortenson Company for the downtown arena project that includes Phase 1 Preconstruction Services in the amount of $390,000.00 and Phase 2 Construction Services in the amount of the total direct construction costs plus the CM@Risk's general condition fee of $6,301,458.00 and the CM@Risk's fee of 2.25% of the direct construction costs; authorizing the Director of Public Works to exercise the City's option for Phase 2 construction services upon the City Council's appropriation of funds from bond proceeds; finding it is in the best interests of the City to utilize the modified MBE/WBE solicitation procedures and requirements set forth in the CM@Risk contract documents and authorizing their use pursuant to section 38-91, Code of Ordinances.
Authorizing a $750,000.00 Support Agreement No. 5 to the Memorandum of Agreement - Brush Creek Flood Control Project with the Department of the Army, Corps of Engineers; and authorizing the Director of Water Services to expend $750,000.00 for the project.
Authorizing a first amendment in the amount of $2,140,000.00 to the Bus Rapid Transit Agreement between the City of Kansas City, the Kansas City Board of Parks and Recreation, and the Kansas City Area Transportation Authority to complete the City's obligation for infrastructure improvements and provide the local match for federal funds.
Repealing Ordinance No. 041265, passed by Council on November 18, 2004, and enacting in lieu thereof a new ordinance approving the plat of Fairfield Third Plat, an addition in Kansas City, Clay County, Missouri; accepting various easements; establishing grades on public ways; authorizing the Director of Public Works to accept certain agreements;authorizing the Director of Public Works to execute certain agreements; and authorizing the City Clerk to file this ordinance and attached agreement.
Referred to Planning, Zoning & Economic Development Committee
Authorizing a $62,303.00 agreement with Kansas City Terminal Railway Company to perform an optimal route study for the Riverfront Heritage Trail, Segment 4f; authorizing the Director of Public Works to expend $62,303.00 for the project
Vacating two portions of the north-south alley west of Main Street and south of 29th Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri and directing the City Clerk to record certain documents.(1467-V)
Amending Sections 80-20, Definitions, 80-42, Accessory uses permitted in districts R-1aa and R-1bb (low density), R-1a (medium density) and R-1b, and 80-60, District R-2 (Two-family dwellings), to define and regulate carriage houses. (254-S-221)
Vacating a portion of 29th Street west of Main Street and a portion of Baltimore Street south of 29th Street, Kansas City, Jackson County, Missouri, and directing the City Clerk to record certain documents. (1477-V)
Rezoning approximately 63 acres generally bounded by I-70 on the north, Blue Ridge Boulevard on the east, 43rd Street on the south and 750 feet west of Sterling Avenue on the west from Districts C-3a2 and C-3a2-p to District URD, and approving a development plan for the same. (12884-URD-1)
Approving the assignment of certain development rights with respect to the redevelopment project located on about 22 acres generally located on the west side of Southwest Boulevard between 25th Street and 27th Street, as described within Case No. 483-S-3 and known as the Output Technology complex, and Westside Industrial "353" (Phases one and two) (the "Redevelopment Project"); releasing Westside Industrial Redevelopment Corporation as it relates to those certain development rights and authorizing execution of an Assignment and Assumption Agreement with Westside Industrial Redevelopment Corporation and Westside Industrial Park, L.L.C. (Case No. 483-S).
Requiring the removal, relocation, change or discontinuance of all plants, mains, facilities, lines, and other appliances owned or operated by Trigen, its successors and assigns, from any streets, boulevards, alleys, avenues, lanes and public grounds within the Main/South Loop TIF Plan Development area and the Kansas City Downtown Arena Project area as necessary in the public interest and for a public purpose.


Document below is for the 2018 league schedule. Similar document will be posted for 2019. Make sure to check tabs at the bottom for specific age groups. Game winners will be highlighted.
The registration link for the 2019 grass volleyball league will be posted soon.
Excell Sports is proud to partner with JB Owens Sports Complex for our Ourdoor Grass Volleyball Tournaments as well as our Grass Leagues.


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Paintings by Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, and the rest of local art's founding fathers were everywhere this month, from a show of Morris Graves at the Seattle Art Museum, to an exhibit entitled "Mark Tobey and the NW mystics" at Foster-White Gallery in Pioneer Square. Ed Kamuda, whose show is just ending at Lisa Harris Gallery, is also closely associated with the Northwest school.
The most ambitious show by far, and one of the most comprehensive to date, is at the Museum of Northwest Art in La Conner, where twenty-one key figures in the emergence of what has become known as the Northwest School are on view. The exhibit was itself inspired by Iridescent Light, a new book on local art history with biographies by Deloris Ament, and photographs by Mary Randlett. Here with our review is KUOW art critic, Gary Faigin.


An introductory guide about using correct writing sequences (CWS) and incorrect writing sequences (IWS) as measures of student writing.
This plan introduces picture-word prompts for practicing writing fluency and modeling how to use them for one-on-one and small-group instruction. Also includes providing students with feedback and progress monitoring. Related blog post.


09/07/2018 Ordinance posted/published. Ordinance effective date: October 10, 2018.
08/28/2018 City Clerk transmitted Council File to Mayor. Last day for Mayor to act is 09/07/2018.
08/28/2018 Council adopted item forthwith.
08/17/2018 City Attorney document(s) referred to Energy, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice Committee.
City Attorney report R18-0262, dated August 16, 2018, relative to a draft Ordinance authorizing the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to grant an easement to Willow Springs Solar, LLC for electricity connection and communication lines across a portion of Transmission Line Right-of Way No. 31A and 83 in Kern County, California.
08/16/2018 Board of Water and Power Commissioners document(s) referred to Energy, Climate Change, and Environmental Justice Committee.
Board of Water and Power Commissioners report, dated August 15, 2018, relative to Board Resolution No. 019 018 authorizing a Grant of Easement to Willow Springs Solar, LLC for power and communication facilities and access through transmission corridor property located in Kem County, California.


ST. GEORGE – From members of Congress to county commissioners, several elected officials gathered at the State Capital Monday to present a united opposition to the potential creation of the Bears Ears National Monument in southeast Utah.
Led by Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, the group, numbering 15 elected officials, each asked outgoing President Barack Obama during a press conference not to use the Antiquities Act to "unilaterally" create a "midnight monument." While they stood in agreement that the Bears Ears region would benefit from additional protection, they argued it should be done through Congress and involve more state and local public input and control.
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, said the decision to create the monument – something he said he believes the president will do – will be "one of the most egregious abuses of federal and executive power" he's ever seen.
The Bears Ears National Monument would cover 1.9 million acres in San Juan County. Within that nearly 2 million acres is 150,000 acres of state land overseen by the School and Institutional Trust Lands Administration, more commonly known as SITLA. These lands are sold to various parties with funds going to public education in the state.
Both Hatch and state Sen. David Hinkins, R-Orangeville, who represents San Juan County, said locking up those lands in a national monument would do more harm than good.
Those lands will be "rendered useless," Hatch said. He also said a monument would suffocate economic development and activity in the region as well.
If the designation goes through, Utah Attorney General Sean Reyes said his office is preparing a lawsuit seeking to undo it.
"I feel strongly that what's happening is wrong," said state Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, who also represents San Juan County. "There are more than enough laws and ordinances in place" to protect the region, he said, adding that the Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service already oversee part of the region.
Noel, who recently submitted his name to the incoming Trump administration for consideration as the next director for the BLM, said he could see the fight over the monument going to the Supreme Court.
The San Juan County Commission was also present at the press conference with members expressing their continuing opposition as well.
"My constituents do not want another national monument," Commissioner Rebecca Benally said.
Benally, who is Navajo, said President Obama would not be designating the monument for the local people, but for groups that are using the Navajo to further their own agenda.
The Bears Ears region is sacred to Native Americans, Benally said. It is a place where they gather medicines, herbs, firewood and hunt, and a national monument could take that away, she said.
According to The Salt Lake Tribune, some elected representatives of the Navajo and Zuni nations, crashed Monday's event at the Capitol.
Filfred and others support the proposal by the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition to create the monument. As put forth in the proposal, the Native Americans would have a hand in managing the national monument while also maintaining access to the land for the purposes Benally argues will be lost to them.
Still, the process should go through Congress and not the president's office, those opposed to the monument said.
Gov. Gary Herbert asked the president to consider Rep. Rob Bishop's Public Lands Initiative legislation in relation to Bears Ears. The proposed legislation identifies lands for conservation and wilderness status while leaving others open for use. This would apply to Bears Ears as well.
While the Public Lands Initiative passed out of the House Natural Resources Committee, which Bishop chairs, it did not get a vote in Congress before it adjourned for the year.
Jennifer Rokala, of the Center for Western Priorities, told the The Salt Lake Tribune that Utah's congressional delegation has wasted its chances at protecting Bears Ears through the legislative process.
Interior Secretary Sally Jewel visited the Bears Ears region in July in order to see it for herself and hear from both supporters and detractors of a national monument designation.
Should the designation take place, Lee said he and other members of Utah's congressional delegation would do everything they could to undo the designation. Part of that could involve introducing legislation to curtail the use of the Antiquities Act by future presidents, he said.
"Mr. President, we beg of you, don't do this," Lee said.
There's only 3 things these mormon politicians are after with this agenda: mining, oil, and gas. Greed is it. Anything else they blather on about is just lies and bs.
It's their lying that bothers me. If it's oil and gas their after then just say it. Might be fun to see their totals in kickbacks from the industry also $$$. lies lies lies, it's all they know.
This is absolutely fantastic news and I'm sure this will result in a positive reaction from the community and I would like to thank all those involved in making this possible. we are so blessed to have these wonderful political group representing the Great state of Utah. Praise the Lord !
Correction. Rep. Mike Noel, R-Kanab, does not represent San Juan County as the story indicates. He represents Kane County and is a principal backer for the Utah Legislature land grab of federal lands. In addition, the designation of a national monument does not deprive Native Americans of any of the uses they have traditionally had with public lands. To imply otherwise as some have suggested is false.
Hi Karen, I just have one clarification point to make to your comment, that concerning Rep. Mike Noel's district. The rest I leave to the ongoing conversation on the subject of the monument.


Apple has released macOS Mojave 10.14.1 beta 5 to developers for testing. The build number is 18B73a.
The 10.14.1 beta brings back support for Group FaceTime and contains bug fixes and improvements to macOS 10.14.


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France, in the 1760s. Born to a bourgeois family, Suzanne (Pauline Etienne) is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music. Despite her faith, she is dismayed when her parents send her off to a convent, expecting her to become a nun. Suzanne first resists the rules of the convent, but soon finds out that she is an illegitimate child,... (more)
France, in the 1760s. Born to a bourgeois family, Suzanne (Pauline Etienne) is a beautiful young girl with a natural talent for music. Despite her faith, she is dismayed when her parents send her off to a convent, expecting her to become a nun. Suzanne first resists the rules of the convent, but soon finds out that she is an illegitimate child, leaving her no other option than to pronounce her vows and suffer the consequences of her mother's sin. She soon wants to escape the religious path and is trying to revoke her vows when the Mother Superior, who had brought her comfort and solace, dies. Her successor, Sister Christine (Louise Bourgoin), turns out to be a sadistic and cruel Mother Superior, inflicting the worst forms of humiliation upon Suzanne, such as depriving her of food and clothing. Suzanne is finally transferred to another convent, where she discovers another kind of Mother Superior (Isabelle Huppert), who develops an inappropriate affectionate bond with her...
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Number of residents under 18 and number of residents 65 and over.
Veterans Affairs National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics
National Center for Veterans Analysis and Statistics (NCVAS) Web Site. The web site contains a collection of statistics, data, and reports about Veterans and the utilization of VA benefits and services.
California HealthCare Foundation - Number Of Psychiatrists By County 2012
Mapping the Gaps: Mental Health in California
About 1 in 20 adults in California suffers from a serious mental illness, though rates can vary widely by region. What other factors tied to mental illness show similar geographic variations?
California shows wide geographic variation in rates of serious mental illness. The state's poorest areas often have the highest rates of mental illness, and they are also among the regions with the fewest licensed mental health professionals to provide treatment.
Read more: http://www.chcf.org/publications/2013/07/data-viz-mental-health#ixzz30sfw3y00
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Linguistically Isolated Households, San Francisco, CA
San Francisco Non English Speaking Persons
Proportion of households in which no one 14 and over speaks English only or speaks English 'Very Well.'
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Public Transit Commute Time, San Francisco, CA
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The El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve: 28 years of history and counting
by Carlos Castillo Sánchez July 2, 2021
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By: Biol. Carlos Castillo Sánchez. Senior Conservation Specialist, Wildlands Network Mexico Program
It was at the beginning of the 80's when a group of researchers headed by Dr. Ezequiel Ezcurra from the UNAM Institute of Ecology visited the Sierra del Pinacate region. In 1981, they published the results of their previous visits to the region[1] proposing, perhaps for the first time, the idea of turning the area into a "Biosphere Reserve". This idea was very popular at the time for famously adapting the concept of the UNESCO MAB (Men and Biosphere) program to Mexico's social and environmental conditions. The concept was known as the "Mexican modality" of biosphere reserves proposed by Dr. Gonzalo Halffter which incorporates local communities in conservation[2].
Let's not forget that at the end of the 70's, more precisely in 1979, a small portion of the region, basically corresponding to the Sonoyta River basin, was declared as a Forest Protective Zone and Wildlife Refuge, through the then Secretariat of Agriculture and Hydraulic Resources (SARH).
However, it was not until 1987 that the Sonora Ecological Center (CES) began the recovery program for the Sonoran pronghorn, an endangered species. I was assigned the responsibility of following up on this strategy, which forced the government to turn its attention once again to this wonderful place. The Sonoran pronghorn recovery program was the bridge that allowed us to get closer to the few residents that were living within the limits of the proposed reserve and get to know them better.
The recovery program even extended to the border of the municipalities of Puerto Peñasco and Caborca, where the densest populations of this endangered species lived, and to where, at some point, there were plans to extend the polygon of what would become the El Pinacate biosphere reserve.
It was during these years that I came in contact with the Intercultural Center for the study of Deserts and Oceans (CEDO) and its director, Peggy J. Turk-Boyer, who opened the doors of her facility to become my operations center and with whom I started a great friendship that lasts to this day.
When Dr. Samuel Ocaña (former governor of Sonora) became part of CES in 1990, a new phase began and the System of Protected Areas of the State of Sonora (SANPES) was implemented. One of the system's priorities was undoubtedly to reactivate the initiative to create a biosphere reserve in the Pinacate region. An initiative well known to Dr. Ocaña because during his tenure as governor, Dr. Ezequiel Ezcurra himself presented the first proposal to declare it as a Natural Protected Area (ANP).
Based on this, Dr. Ocaña instructed me to coordinate with Dr. Alberto Búrquez from the UNAM Institute of Ecology based in Hermosillo, to develop a new preliminary study to justify what would culminate in the declaration of the El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve on June 10, 1993.
Between 1993 and 1996, it was the CES, with support from The Nature Conservancy through the Parks in Peril program to the first ANP management team and begin equipping the facilities located in the Ejido Los Norteños.
This operational team began a strong effort of community work, surveillance, strategic planning and identification of the main threats present in the area. In addition, during this period a base group led by me was established to develop the ANP Management Program, as part of the CES and with the support of the Geology Department of the University of Sonora, CEDO, the INAH-Sonora Center and the School of Architecture of the Autonomous University of Baja California.
In 1996, with my appointment as Director by the Coordinating Unit of Natural Protected Areas (UCANP) of the National Institute of Ecology of the then SEMARNAP, and with the legal and administrative support of the entity responsible for federal protected areas, we began to control and organize one of the main threats to the area, which was the extraction of morusa or volcanic ash, as well as the disorderly access to the area, the protection of the O'odham Nation sacred sites and the work with the area's residents to search for sustainable productive alternatives adapted to the inhospitable conditions of the region.
The dreams of agriculture and livestock of the then few inhabitants had already disappeared. The forces of nature at the "heart of the Sonoran Desert" had been in charge of burying any attempt to implement economic activities compatible with the climatic and geological conditions of the ANP under an immense sea of dunes like the ones that had buried the volcanic shield itself.
The El Pinacate Biosphere Reserve has always been the ideal model for an ANP. However, this model does not necessarily fit with the reality of the rest of the country. El Pinacate has been privileged in that sense. Its small population, the majesty of its natural settings, the climatic conditions themselves (very cold winters and extremely hot summers), the few passable accesses, the infrastructure (Biological Station, Visitors Center, routes access, and excellent signage) built throughout its 28 years of existence, and the national and international recognitions that have been granted, have all made El Pinacate a place that anyone with an adventurous spirit dreams of knowing. All these conditions added to the scenic beauty given by the various geological manifestations and its great biological wealth have strongly attracted the attention of national and international tourism. Unfortunately, these times of sanitary crisis added to the perception of insecurity and the brutal budget reduction suffered by the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP), are putting at risk the "28 years and counting" of efforts to conserve this jewel of the natural and cultural heritage of Sonora, Mexico and the world. Let's hope that these conditions will change and that this natural gem will shine again as before. This is my greatest wish for this majestic place.
Biologist Carlos Castillo Sánchez
Carlos Castillo Sánchez is a biologist graduated from the Autonomous University of Guadalajara (1986) who has a specialty in Environment and Sustainable Development Leadership through the LEAD-Mexico Program at the Colegio de México (2000-2002).
He began his work experience as a Researcher in the Terrestrial Ecology Area of the Centro Ecológico de Sonora (1986-1996) as Senior Researcher responsible for the Sonoran Pronghorn Recovery Program in the Pinacate region.
In 1990 he was appointed to design the Preliminary Justification Study for the Declaration of the El Pinacate and Gran Desierto de Altar Biosphere Reserve, which was decreed on June 10, 1993, and became the first director appointed by the Federal Government (1996-2004). In 2002 he was commissioned to begin regionalizing the CONANP, and becoame Director of the Northwest Region and Upper Gulf of California (2004-2017).
Since 2017 Carlos has worked as an independent consultant on issues related to biodiversity conservation and protected natural areas on projects for organizations such as World Wildlife Fund, UNDP, Amigos del Centro Ecológico de Sonora, A.C. and Naturaleza y Cultura Sierra Madre A.C., and in April 2019 he joined the Wildlands Network Organization as Senior Conservation Specialist. He is also president of the Board of Directors of FONNOR, A.C. and member of the scientific committee of Prescott College, Bahía de Kino Unit, Sonora.
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Josephine Elizabeth Auten
George W. Auten
2/24/1875 - 11/9/1972
Kate E. Daugherty
About Josephine Elizabeth Auten
Josephine Elizabeth Auten was born on April 11, 1908 in Akron, Ohio and died on September 8, 2011 in Tampa, Florida. She lived to be 103 years old.
She attended Akron University. She worked as a secretary. 2nd marriage on (11/7/1981) to Lloyd A. Davison (12/31/1893 - 5/31/1986).
Census 4/25/1910 Akron OH (Summit County) 2 yrs old
Recorded as family #297: George W. Auten (age 35), Kate E. (age 28), George R. (age 6), Ralph (age 4) and Josephine (age 2). Kate and George have been married 8 years. All were born in OH as were their parents -- except George W.'s mother who was born in Connecticut. It appears the census recorder made a mistake and wrote that Kate and George R. have had two children and 2 are still living. George W. is an attorney.
Recorded as family #153: George Auten (age 42), Kate (age 39), Russell (age 16), Ralph (age 14), Josephine (age 11) and William Daugherty (father-in-law, age 68). William is a widow and says he was born in OH, his father in Pennsylvania and his mother in Ireland and Irish is his native language. Everyone else was born in OH as were their parents. The children have been attending school and everyone can read and write. William is a house carpenter. George is a general practice Lawyer.
Recorded as family #153: George W. Auten (age 55), Katie E. (age 49), Ralph W. (age 24), and Josephine E. (age 21). George was 27 when he was first married and Katie was 22. George and his father were born in Ohio while his mother was born in PA. Katie and her parents were born in OH. All of the children were born in OH. George owns the house where they live and estimates the value of his estate to be $12,000. The family owns a radio, the children are attending school and all can read and write. George is a lawyer.
Marriage 11/7/1981 FL (Seminole County) 73 yrs old
Name:	Josephine Elizabeth Auten, Spouse:	Lloyd Andrew Davison, County of Marriage:	Seminole, Marriage Date:	7 Nov 1981, Maiden Name:	Auten, Gender:	Female, Race:	White, Volume:	5017, Certificate:	099572, Source:	Florida Department of Health
Newspaper 9/8/2011 Tampa FL 103 yrs old
DAVISON, Josephine (Jo) Auten Windows, 103, died peacefully on September 8, 2011, at West Bay Nursing and Rehabilitation Center, with her daughter, Nancy Shoaps and her husband Paul at her bedside.
Jo was preceded in death by her husband, F. Earl Windows, husband, Lloyd Davison, and daughter, Marjorie Evans. She is survived by her daughter, Nancy Shoaps (Paul); 7 grandchildren; 14 great grandchildren; and two great-great grandchildren.
Jo was born in Akron, Ohio on April 11, 1908, the youngest of three children of George W. and Kate Auten. She grew up in West Akron, graduated from West High School and attended the University of Akron.For most of her adult life, she worked as a legal secretary for her father. Jo was an excellent pianist and bridge player, loved dancing in all forms, sang in the church choir, and was an avid bird watcher. Her children and grandchildren were influenced by her example to pursue many of the same interests. Her enthusiasm was contagious even in the last days of her life at the nursing home where she was known as the "energizer bunny", often bursting into song as she navigated the halls in her wheelchair. Words are insufficient to describe what a loving, giving, supportive mother she was. Her encouragement and support were constant. Her interest in her daughters and grandchildren was unwavering, but her caring did not stop at family�she was also passionate about church and community. As a member of West Congregational Church in Akron, she became involved in migrant worker issues and an agency that served homeless alcoholics. In addition, she taught Sunday school and was president of the Women's Fellowship. She was active in the PTA, League of Women Voters and the Child Conservation Corps. Her life of giving and service stand as an example for those of us fortunate enough to have had her as a mother and grandmother.
Our gratitude and thanks to the devoted and loving staff at West Bay who were Jo's "family" for the past seven years. Also thanks to the Suncoast Hospice RN Joe Leurck and volunteers who lovingly supported Jo and her family through her last days.
Memorial services will be held at a later date with burial in Rose Hill Cemetery, Akron, Ohio.
Click on any of the News, Events, or Discoveries buttons above to see historical things that happened during Josephine Auten's life. These are only some of the major events that affected the life and times of Josephine, her family, and friends. For example, Josephine is 1 years old when The National Association for Advancement of Colored People is formed (NAACP)
9 1917 Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction.
71 1979 The sovereign status of the Seminole Indian Tribe allows it to establish the first gambling establishment in FL. It is a bingo hall located on their Hollywood, FL reservation.
6 1914 The first traffic lights (which is only red or green) are put up in America; Construction of the Panama Canal is completed
67 1975 Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)
71 1979 First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination
73 1981 AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space.
78 1986 Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher.
81 1989 An asteroid comes relatively close to colliding with the earth
82 1990 Hubble Space Telescope launched; optical defect discovered and repaired later in 1993.
86 1994 The world watches comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 (S-L 9) colliding with Jupiter
89 1997 First Pathfinder vehicle lands on Mars and begin sending first photographs of Martin landscape. These are made available on the internet.
90 1998 Construction begins on the International Space Station.
92 2000 Successful cloning of animals begins in the early 2000s.
96 2004 March 2, 2004 - Mars rover MER-B (Opportunity) confirms to NASA that the area of their landing was once covered in water.
102 2010 CERN scientist trap anti-matter for the first time.
9 1917 NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.
69 1977 NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.
76 1984 NEWS HEADLINES: The first Macintosh computer with a mouse is launched and begins the computer age as it is shortly followed by the first PC and Microsoft.
84 1992 NEWS HEADLINES: The "World Wide Web" (Internet) became available for home use through college and university sponsored "freenets".
92 2000 The 2000 census enumerates a population of 281,421,906, increasing 13.2% since 1990. As regions, the South and West continued to pick up the majority of the increase in population, moving the geographic center of U.S. population to Phelps County, Missouri.
92 2000 April 3, 2000 - The ruling in the case of the United States versus Microsoft states that the company did violate anti-trust laws by diminishing the capability of its rivals to compete.
92 2000 December 28, 2000 - Montgomery Ward, the retail giant since its founding one hundred and twenty-eight years before, announces its intention to cease business. Competition from newer, low-cost retail behemoths such as Wal-Mart lead to its demise. Over the next 10 years Wal-Mart pushes most other 'dime store' businesses to closure.
92 2000 November 7, 2000 - George W. Bush, son of the former President, and Vice President Al Gore hold a virtual dead-heat for the presidency, with a disputed vote in Florida holding off the naming of the winner of the President Election until the Supreme Court of the United States voted in favor of Bush on December 12. This ruling gave Florida to the Bush camp by a 527 vote majority, and a victory in the Electoral College, 271-266, despite gaining less popular votes than Gore.
92 2000 June 1, 2000 - For the first time since 1851, the United States of America does not participate in a major World's Fair, the Hannover 2000 World Expo, despite a record number, 187, of international participants. President Bill Clinton had withdrawn U.S. participation late in 1999 after agreement to participate in 1997. Congressional apathy toward participation in world events continues a decline in U.S. involvement after the fall of the Soviet Union and victory in the Cold War. A consequence of this policy has led to a rise, among some experts, of anti-American sentiment, and a decline of U.S. influence in diplomatic affairs. Less than half, 18.1 million, of the original attendance estimate, 40 million, visit Hannover's event.
93 2001 April 8, 2001 - Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer to hold all four major golf titles simulteneously by winning the Master's tournament in Augusta, Georgia. This followed a remarkable run in 2000 when Woods claimed victory at the final three majors of that season; the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship.
93 2001 NEWS HEADLINES: September 11 -- (9 11) -- The World Trade Towers are hit by terrorist flying commercial planes full of passengers.
94 2002 February 8, 2002 - Amid tight security due to terrorism concerns, the Winter Olympic Games are opened by President George W. Bush in Salt Lake City, Utah. They would continue without major incident until the closing ceremony on February 24.
95 2003 December 13, 2003 - Saddam Hussein, former leader of Iraq, is captured in a small bunker in Tikrit by the U.S. 4th Infantry Division. General fear of terrorism begins to subside.
95 2003 April 9, 2003 - The U.S. coalition siezes control of Baghdad in the Iraq conflict.
95 2003 February 1, 2003 - A tragedy at NASA occurs when the Space Shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentry over Texas. All seven astronauts inside are killed.
96 2004 February 3, 2004 - The Central Intelligence Agency admits that the imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction (which justified the war on Iraq) was not present before the 2003 Iraq war began.
97 2005 August 29, 2005 - Hurricane Katrina strikes the Gulf Coast, inundating the city of New Orleans with water from Lake Pontchetrain when the levees that maintain the below sea level city break. Over one thousand three hundred people perish from Alabama to Louisiana in one of the worst natural disasters to strike the United States. (Picture Below: Damage across the Gulf Coast of the United States after Hurricane Katrina.)
97 2005 July 26, 2005 - In the first Space Shuttle flight since the tragedy of 2003, Discovery goes into orbit on a mission that returns to earth safely on August 9.
97 2005 United States labor is squeezed by global forces and the United States economy continues to decline.
103 2011 March 15, 2011 - Largest recorded earthquake hits Japan and everyone watches the horrifying scenes as survivors post videos taken with their cell phones on YouTube.
69 1977 Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.
73 1981 Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican)
79 1987 President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles.
79 1987 January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County.
81 1989 George Bush is elected president. (Republican)
85 1993 Bill Clinton is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Democrat)
86 1994 O.J. Simpson is chased down by police and later his trial is telecast for the world to watch.
89 1997 A robust economy creates the longest prosperity in U.S. history.
91 1999 United States budget goes into surplus.
93 2001 George W. Bush is elected president. He is the son of George Bush who served as president from 1989-1993. He will serve two terms. (Republican)
96 2004 November 2, 2004 - President George W. Bush wins reelection over Democratic Senator John Kerry from Massachusetts. He wins 50.7% of the popular vote and 286 votes in the Electoral College.
96 2004 National Museum of the American Indian is established in Washington DC.
96 2004 National Museum of the American Indian is established on the mall in Washington DC.
98 2006 December 1, 2006 - United States manufacturing capacity and esteem wanes, signalled by the sale of the last shares of his General Motors stock by U.S. billionaire Kirk Kerkorian.
100 2008 October 3, 2008 - The United States Congress passes legislation, signed by President Bush, for a $700 billion bailout, the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act, giving the Treasury Department authority to assist distressed Wall Street and banking businesses of the United States due to the housing, banking, and subprime mortgage crises caused by excessive greed and speculation among Wall Street firms. This economic distress, coupled with oil prices above $140 per barrel during the summer, deepened the world economic crises that had been brewing all year. The bailout was supported by current President George W. Bush and both presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain.
100 2008 A major financial crisis and recession begins in earnest.
101 2009 Health care reforms initiated by the new US President, Obama, gives birth to the 'Tea Party' movement.
101 2009 October 31, 2009 - The economic recession continues to deepen as jobless claims climb above 10.0%, reaching 10.2% with October's monthly figures. This occurs despite efforts by the Obama administration to ramp up massive government spending pushed by the $780 billion economic stimulus package passed earlier in the year.
6 1914 World War I - Following the crisis touched off by the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria in Sarajevo, Germany declared war on Russia and additional countries joined the war within several days.
9 1917 Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.
81 1989 The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany
82 1990 Iraq (Sadam Hussein) invades Kuwait causing the U.N. to impose sanctions. This leads to the Gulf War.
84 1992 North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) is formed.
85 1993 South Africa accepts racial equality.
88 1996 Pope John Paul II affirmed evolution by natural selection
91 1999 Yugoslavia breaks up and Serbia is contained.
92 2000 China begins to emerge as an economic giant.
92 2000 Internet, cellphones, and social networking (using websites such as Twitter and Facebook) begin to grow in popularity and become standards for most house holds by 2010.
93 2001 September 11, 2001 - 911 - Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijack four U.S. airliners and crash them into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City. The attack of two planes levels the World Trade Center and the crash of one plane inflicts serious damage to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, causing nearly 3,000 deaths. The fourth plane is heroically crashed by passengers into a Shanksville, Pennsylvania cornfield when they learn of the plot, preventing destruction of another structure in Washington, D.C., supposed to be the White House or the Capitol building. The plot is attributed to the Al-Qaeda organization led by Osama Bin Laden.
93 2001 April 1, 2001 - China-U.S. incident. An American spyplane collides with a fighter plane of China and makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for ten days
93 2001 September 18, 2001 - Anthrax attacks by mail from Princeton, New Jersey against news and government targets begin. Federal officials announce the first case on October 4. World wide concern about terrorism continues to escalate.
93 2001 October 7, 2001 - In response to the tragedy of September 11, the United States military, with participation from its ally the United Kingdom, commence the first attack in the War on Terrorism on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. By November 12, the Taliban government leaves the capital, Kabul.
94 2002 November 8, 2002 - The United Nations passes Resolution 1441 in a unanimous Security Council vote. It forces Saddam Hussein and Iraq to disarm or face serious consequences.
94 2002 November 21, 2002 - NATO invites additional members of the former Soviet bloc to join its membership. Seven nations are included in the invitation; Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia.
94 2002 May 21, 2002 - The United States State Department issues its report in the War on Terror. It states that there are seven nations that a State-Sponsors: Iran, Iraq, Cuba, Libya, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria.
95 2003 March 19, 2003 - The War in Iraq begins with the bombing of Baghdad after additional measures and mandates from the United Nations and the United States coalition fail to gain concessions or the removal of Saddam Hussein from power. The U.S. coalition, upon failure to extract authority from the U.N. for action due to the veto power of France, begin land operations one day later with participation from U.S., British, Australian, and Polish troops.
98 2006 February 22, 2006 - In a continuing shift of the retail industry to new platforms, the one billionth song is downloaded from the internet music store, Apple iTunes. This shift comes at the expense of many brick and mortar chains, including Tower Records. The trend of purchasing items via the internet, instead of local stores, continues to grow.
99 2007 The world climate and ocean temperatures continue to rise. Both polar caps are shrinking at a record breaking rate.
99 2007 January 10, 2007 - President George W. Bush announces a troop surge of 21,500 for the war in Iraq to stem the violence at the request of new commander General Petreus. This controversial policy begins to show positive signs once fully implemented during the summer months, with a reduction in violent attacks against coalition forces and Iraqi civilians. Progress on the political front within the Iraqi national government, however, does not keep pace with positive developments on the military front.
100 2008 November 4, 2008 - Barack Obama, Democratic Senator from Illinois, the land of Abraham Lincoln, wins a landslide margin in the Electoral College, 365 to 173 in the election for the 44th President of the USA over John McCain, making him the first African-American president in the history of the United States of America.
102 2010 April 20, 2010 - A British Petroleum deep water oil rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico, causing the largest oil spill in the history of the United States, killing eleven workers, and devastating the envirnoment. It also severely damaged the fishing and tourism industries of gulf states.
103 2011 March 15, 2011 - The largest recorded earthquake hits Japan followed by a huge tsunami. Three nucular power plants are danaged and remain in critical status for the next six weeks. Manufacturing plants in Japan can no longer produce and impacts the world economy.
100 th Birthday!
Celebrating her 100th Brithday!
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Frederick Windows
Born on November 3, 1904 and died on December 21, 1974.
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GINGER GRACE (Writer and Actor) After touring nationally opposite Rich Little in The Presidents, playing all of the First Ladies from Jackie Kennedy to Hillary Clinton, her passion for these women inspired her to do even more research and begin writing her own play. The First Ladies Coalition, directed by Austin Pendleton, had its world premiere in 2012 at the Bridge Theatre in New York City.
Her production of William Luce's The Belle of Amherst, in which she plays Emily Dickinson, has been playing throughout the country since 2002, and recently she created an interactive performance piece on the poet: Inside Emily Dickinson: Her Poetry & Her Life. She has worked extensively Off-Broadway and in Regional Theatre. She has played major roles in Tennessee Williams' Vieux Carre and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, as well as in Doubt, Elektra, Faust, Hamlet, Peer Gynt, The Cherry Orchard, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and A Midsummer Night's Dream.
Ms. Grace is highly committed to the development of new works and recently created roles in Jenny Lyn Bader's In Flight, Deborah Savadge's The Favor, Fengar Gael's Devil Dog Six, and Alyssa Haddad's Peace & Quiet in New York.
Indie film work includes Frat Star (playing opposite Chris Elliott), 6-Minute Mom, SHEER, Wish You Were Here, It's All Relative, and The Parlor.
Ms. Grace is a member of the League of Professional Theatre Women, Playwrights Gallery, Stage Struck and Women Stage the World, organizations which advocate for the power of women's voices to be heard in the theatre – and in the world!
"If theatre is a circus, the writing and acting of this one person show is a high wire act!"
– Bill Castellino, Director & Choreographer
"…spellbinding enacting of the first ladies. . . brilliant and marvelously incorporated."
– Evelyne Crochet, Musician


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Plasma Processing Science
Fundamental Insights in Plasma Processes
Chair Peter Bruggeman
Vice Chair Anthony B. Murphy
1150 Douglas Pike
Smithfield, RI, US
Plasmas are used in a huge range of established and emerging applications in the areas of energy, advanced materials, human health and environmental sustainability. Understanding the physical, chemical and biochemical mechanisms underlying the properties of the plasma and its interactions with materials is critical in optimizing existing applications and developing new ones. The 2018 Gordon Research Conference on Plasma Processing will highlight the scientific advances at the cutting edge of plasma processing science, and discuss new emerging topics and trends, with a focus on the mechanisms that contribute to the existing and future application of plasmas.
The conference will bring together leaders in the field with junior investigators and graduate students. In addition to the invited presentations, a late-breaking topics session with selected contributions from attendees will be included in the program. The associated Gordon Research Seminar also provides an exciting venue for the junior researchers to present and discuss their research. The special format of the Gordon Conferences, with programmed discussion sessions and ample time for informal gatherings in the afternoons and evenings, will provide for a fertile atmosphere of brainstorming and creative thinking among the attendees.
This GRC will be held in conjunction with the "Plasma Processing Science (GRS)" Gordon Research Seminar (GRS). Those interested in attending both meetings must submit an application for the GRS in addition to an application for the GRC. Refer to the associated GRS program page for more information.
Plasma Assisted Combustion and Flow Control
Discussion Leader: Christophe Laux (CentraleSupélec / CNRS, France)
Igor Adamovich (Ohio State University, USA)
"Molecular Energy Transfer and Chemical Reactions in Transient High-Pressure Plasmas: Implications for Plasma Assisted Combustion and Plasma Flow Control"
Armelle Cessou (CORIA, CNRS / Université de Rouen Normandie, France)
"Spontaneous Raman Scattering for the Investigation of Energy Deposition by Nanosecond Pulsed Discharges for Plasma Assisted Combustion"
Plasma-Material Interactions
Discussion Leader: Rebecca Anthony (Michigan State University, USA)
Jane Chang (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
"Plasma Processing of Functionally Enhanced Complex Material Systems"
Lorenzo Mangolini (University of California, Riverside, USA)
"Plasma-Nanoparticle Interaction: From Materials Processing to Catalysis"
Vincent Donnelly (University of Houston, USA)
"Dynamic Plasma Interactions with Chamber Walls During Si Etching"
Jean-Pierre van Helden (Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology (INP), Germany)
"Mid-Infrared Frequency Comb Spectroscopy for Plasma-Surface Interaction Studies"
The GRC Power Hour is an optional informal gathering open to all meeting participants. It is designed to help address the challenges women face in science and support the professional growth of women in our communities by providing an open forum for discussion and mentoring.
Organizers: Rebecca Anthony (Michigan State University, USA) and Katharine Hunter (University of Minnesota, USA)
Late-Breaking Topics
Discussion Leader: Anthony Murphy (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia)
Richard van de Sanden (Dutch Institute for Fundamental Energy Research (DIFFER), The Netherlands)
"Renewable Energy Driven Non-Equilibrium Chemistry: Plasma Chemistry as the Special Case"
David Graves (University of California, Berkeley, USA)
"Air Plasma for Organic Fertilizer"
Plasma Agriculture and Medicine
Discussion Leader: Alexander Fridman (Drexel University, USA)
Masaru Hori (Nagoya University, Japan)
"Plasma Agriculture"
Georg Bauer (University Medical Center Freiburg, Germany)
"Signal Amplification by Tumor Cells: Understanding of the Specific Antitumor Effects of Cold Atmospheric Plasma and Plasma-Activated Medium"
Endre Szili (University of South Australia, Australia)
"Developing In Vitro Models to Analyze the Metrology of Plasma-Tissue Interactions"
Marien Simeni Simeni (Ohio State University, USA)
"Electric Field Measurements in Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas"
Plasma Catalysis
Discussion Leader: Hyun-Ha Kim (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan)
Dae Hoon Lee (Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials, South Korea)
"Looking for a Synergism: Can Plasma Enhance Catalytic Reactions?"
Kristof Bal (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
"Bottom-up Disentanglement of Plasma-Catalytic Effects from Atomistic Modeling"
Exploring New Plasma Regimes
Discussion Leader: Francoise Massines (Laboratoire Procédés, Matériaux et Energie Solaire (PROMES), CNRS, France)
Jeff Hopwood (Tufts University, USA)
"Self-Initiated Microplasmas in Reconfigurable Metamaterials and Photonic Crystals"
Pierre Tardiveau (Université Paris Saclay / CNRS, France)
"Diffuse Atmospheric Pressure Discharges Under Extreme Electric Fields"
Yi-Kang Pu (Tsinghua University, China)
"The Effect of Pulse Repetition Rate on Nanosecond Pulsed Microdischarges"
Maria Carreon (The University of Tulsa, USA)
"Ammonia Synthesis by Radio Frequency Plasma Catalysis: Revealing the Underlying Mechanisms"
Challenges in Diagnostics
Discussion Leader: Richard Engeln (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
Edward Barnat (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
"Developing the Plasma Physicists' Diagnostics Toolbox: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly"
Uwe Czarnetzki (Ruhr University Bochum, Germany)
"Plasma Diagnostics: What Can We Know? What Ought We Do? For What May We Hope?"
Multiphase Plasmas
Discussion Leader: R. Mohan Sankaran (Case Western Reserve University, USA)
Javad Mostaghimi (University of Toronto, Canada)
"Droplet Impact Dynamics on a Substrate During Plasma Spray Coating Process"
Davide Mariotti (Ulster University, United Kingdom)
"Do We Need Multiphase Plasmas for the Next Generation Materials Synthesis?"
Naoki Shirai (Hokkaido University, Japan)
"Investigation of Plasma-Liquid Interaction of Atmospheric Pressure Plasmas Using a Liquid Electrode"
Juliusz Kruszelnicki (University of Michigan, USA)
"Interactions Between Water Aerosols and Dielectric Barrier Discharges"
Challenges in Modeling
Discussion Leader: John Verboncoeur (Michigan State University, USA)
Anne Bourdon (LPP, Ecole Polytechnique, France)
"New Challenges in Fluid, Hybrid and PIC Simulations of Atmospheric Pressure Discharges"
Juan Trelles (University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA)
"Frontiers in Computational Plasma Flow Modeling: Capturing Non-Equilibrium"
University of Michigan - Michigan Institute for Plasma Science and Engineering (MIPSE)
University of Minnesota - High Temperature and Plasma Laboratory
This material is based upon work supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Science, under award number DE-SC0019240. This report was prepared as an account of work sponsored by an agency of the United States Government. Neither the United States Government nor any agency thereof, nor any of their employees, makes any warranty, express or implied, or assumes any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information, apparatus, product, or process disclosed, or represents that its use would not infringe privately owned rights. Reference herein to any specific commercial products, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise does not necessarily constitute or imply its endorsement, recommendation or favoring by the U.S. Government or any agency thereof. The views and opinions of authors expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of the United States Government or any agency thereof.
Conference History Plasma Processing Science (GRS)
Plasma Processing Science (GRS)


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Sunday, October 27, 2013, 3:00–11:55 p.m.
In anticipation of the evening's Halloween Drag Ball, artist Raul de Nieves leads an afternoon of costume making. The VW Dome will be filled with inspiration, materials and tools as well as makeup and hair supplies. Adults and children are welcome to join and prepare for Halloween and the evening's pageantry.
This Halloween MoMA PS1 and Candy Magazine invite all guests to come dressed in drag and be part of a glamorous old school drag ball made contemporary, with live drag and musical performances, DJs, dancing, and a pageant. The party is hosted by some of the leading contributors to contemporary dialogue on gender, sexuality, drag, and performance.
Candy is a magazine launched in 2008 that celebrates transsexuality, cross dressing, drag, androgyny, and everything in between.
MoMA PS1 and Candy Magazine Halloween Drag Ball on October 27, 2013, presented at MoMA PS1 as part of VW Sunday Sessions 2013-2014. Photo by Charles Roussel.


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Bella Hadid Thanks The Weeknd for "Being the Best"
Peggy Truong
Photo credit: Hearst Communications, Inc. All rights reserved
From Cosmopolitan
Now that you've all had some time to recover from all the emotions spilling from Bella Hadid and The Weeknd's reunion at the Victoria's Secret Fashion Show in Paris on Wednesday, feast your eyes on Bella's latest Instagram post. The model, who walked the V.S. show for the first time in her career, has been sharing some post-show thoughts, thanking everyone from her sister Gigi to V.S. senior creative Ed Razek.
But perhaps the most important shout-out is the one for The Weeknd, who performed at the show for the second consecutive year. "Thank you @theweeknd for being the best and most incredible performer not he planet," part of the caption reads. "You KILLED it, as always😍 ❤ ."
Bella and The Weeknd, who reportedly split in early November, had an awkward but sweet reunion on the V.S. runway during his performance of "Starboy." The internet had a lot of feelings about it as well. Prior to the show, Bella told E! that "There is no awkwardness. He is my best friend, and I am excited because I am walking during his performance."
BRB. This is getting to be too much again.
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Woman facing jail asks if she can take sex toy to prison at Grimsby court
Astonishment at Grimsby Crown Court when forthright defendant makes a risqué query
Mark NaylorCourt Reporter
A woman facing jail caused shock at Grimsby Crown Court when she asked if she would able to take a vibrator into prison (Image: PA)
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A woman who was facing being jailed caused shock at court when she suddenly asked out of the blue: "Can you take a vibrator into prison?"
The forthright, heavily made-up blonde woman, in her 40s, left a female court professional gasping with astonishment at the brazen question.
The amazed officer did not know what to say, not having experience of such delicate and intimate matters.
She told the woman: "I have never been asked that before!"
It seemed like the admirably assertive woman was being flippant and was full of bravado rather than being deadly serious when she asked the no-nonsense question.
She was, at the time, waiting outside the courtroom at Grimsby Crown Court for her case to be called.
The respectable, married official was not sure whether the woman's question was a joke or a feeble and ill-advised attempt at humour.
A bemused man at Grimsby Crown Court was left flustered upon finding himself in earshot of the unusual question
The officer did not know where to look and was still in red-faced shock when she later told another court professional about this year's most unexpected question.
Broad grins, chuckles and wide smiles were the order of the day as the visibly shellshocked court stalwart told the other official what she had been asked.
A bemused man who happened to be in earshot of the embarrassing X-rated conversation found himself suffering a sudden distressing attack of shyness and a feeling of terror and impending doom.
He could only stare in a dizzying stupor at the floor, suddenly developing a keen interest in the patterns on the polished tiles and even the fascinating traces of dried mud on his shoes.
He didn't, of course, want to be seen to be showing any undue interest in such delicate female-only private activities.
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The defendant who asked the intriguing vibrator question was duly jailed later in the day - and she will surely have been able to check herself what the official policy on vibrators is.
No doubt a few discreet inquiries at New Hall Prison, near Wakefield, where she will have been taken, may also have elicited useful guidance and information.
But a po-faced and less-than-amused Ministry of Justice spokesman later declined to make an official comment on the vexed question of vibrators in prison.
However, a more helpful prison source made clear what the official position was.
"Shockingly, vibrators are not allowed in prison," he said.
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"We have a list of banned items that you aren't allowed to have in prisons and vibrators are on that list."
This was not because vibrators might be a potential violence risk or might be used as a weapon but because they were "inappropriate".
He added: "We wouldn't allow that kind of thing in any prison.
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"People will be able to understand why these kind of items would not be allowed in a prison.
"If you ever go into a prison, you are given a list of items that you are reminded that you are not allowed in.
"There is other stuff. There is a list of banned items that you are just not allowed in custody."
So now we know.


Grammys: Elton John, Miley Cyrus perform "Tiny Dancer"
Previous Grammy nominee Miley Cyrus took the stage with five-time Grammy winner Elton John to perform one of his classic hits, "Tiny Dancer" on Sunday night's awards show.
John, who started the song, played the piano, which had a white rose on top in honor of the #MeToo and Time's Up movements, and Cyrus joined him mid-song to finish out the duet.
"Tiny Dancer" first debuted in 1972 as a single off of John's fourth album, Madman Across the Water.
The performance comes just two days before "Elton John: I'm Still Standing—A Grammy Salute," a tribute concert where John and longtime writing partner Bernie Taupin are set to receive the Recording Academy President's Merit Award.
The 60th annual Grammy Awards, hosted by James Corden, aired live from New York's Madison Square Garden on CBS. See all the winners here.


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June 19, 2014 / 7:15 PM / 5 years ago
Sun worshippers beware: tanning may be addictive
Will Dunham
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - This may give dedicated sun worshippers reason for pause. A new study suggests that regular tanning not only may raise the risk of skin cancer but also may be addictive.
A spectator tans himself in the sun during the IAAF World Athletics Championships in Moscow in this file photo taken August 13, 2013. REUTERS/Kai Pfaffenbach
A study published on Thursday found that chronic exposure to ultraviolet radiation triggers the release of endorphins - the so-called feel-good hormones - that function through the same biological pathway as highly addictive opiate drugs such as heroin and morphine.
The study involved laboratory mice, but the researchers said they believe the findings are applicable to people because the biological response of skin to UV radiation in mice is so similar to humans.
Regular UV radiation exposure led to physical dependence and addictive behavior in the mice, the study found. The animals even exhibited withdrawal symptoms - shaking, tremors and teeth chattering - after being treated with a drug that blocked the endorphin activity, the researchers said.
Writing in the journal Cell, they said the addictive nature of UV exposure "may contribute to the relentless rise in skin cancer incidence in humans."
"There is this dangerous addictive pathway operating," said dermatologist Dr. David Fisher of Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, who led the study.
Fisher said in theory sun-related skin cancer should be highly preventable merely by reducing exposure, but the addictive qualities of UV exposure may help explain the dogged "sun-seeking behavior" some people display through outdoor and indoor tanning and other pursuits.
"Behavioral exposure to the sun is being guided by influences that go past just a desire to have a nice game of Frisbee outside. There's something else motivating that behavior," Fisher added.
Exposure to ultraviolet rays through sunlight and indoor tanning equipment is considered a major risk factor for skin cancer including melanoma. The American Cancer Society said U.S. melanoma rates have been rising for at least 30 years, with about 76,000 news cases and 9,700 deaths forecast for 2014.
Cumulative damage from UV radiation also can cause premature skin aging in the form of wrinkles, lax skin and brown spots.
Exposure to UV rays stimulates production of endorphins - the same hormones stimulated by activities like vigorous exercise. They turn on opiate-related receptors via the same biological pathway triggered by prescription painkillers and other opiate drugs.
The researchers shaved the backs of the mice and gave them a daily dose of UV light – enough to induce tanning but not burning - for six weeks. Bloodstream endorphin levels rose within a week.
John Overstreet, executive director of the Indoor Tanning Association, said the study "ignores the benefits of exposure to ultraviolet light, the most obvious of which is the production of vitamin D through your skin."
"It is also important to note that there is no simple definition of addiction and the identification of addictions requires a substantial body of research. It is highly unlikely that a single study could lead to a sound conclusion on the matter. You can take anything too far, that does not mean it is an addiction," Overstreet said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/1iLJpal Cell, online June 19, 2014.