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Invoke (stylized as INVOKE) is a smart speaker developed by Harman Kardon and was powered by Microsoft's intelligent personal assistant, Cortana. Voice interaction with Cortana provides features such as setting alarms, facts, searches, weather, news, traffic, flights, and other real-time information.  Additionally, the speaker's Cortana integration with one's Microsoft Account enabled calendars, reminders, commutes, to-do lists, and home automation features, among others.

The device supported music streaming from Spotify, iHeartRadio, and TuneIn. and was also the first smart speaker to support voice calls using Skype. The inside of the speaker consists of seven far-field microphones, three woofers, three tweeters, two passive radiators, and a 40-watt amplifier.

History
In December 2016, Microsoft announced it was partnering with Harman Kardon to develop a Cortana-powered smart speaker for release in 2017 and teased a preview of the device on YouTube.

The device was officially unveiled on October 2, 2017  and became available for purchase on October 22, 2017 at Microsoft Store and select retailers, such as Best Buy, for an introductory price of $199.95.  Over the Thanksgiving weekend during Black Friday sales, the speaker was discounted to $99.

End of life
Microsoft announced in July 2020 that they would end support for Cortana on the Invoke speaker in January 2021. The speaker received an update in 2021 to make it into an ordinary Bluetooth speaker. Microsoft offered a $50 gift card to Invoke owners who had used the Cortana feature after July 31, 2019 and before its end-of-life announcement.

Features

Standalone audio
By itself, the Harman Kardon Invoke can function as a standalone Bluetooth wireless speaker and also has Spotify Connect integration for audio streaming.  Manufactured by a home audio equipment manufacturer, the Invoke contains 3 woofers and 3 tweeters for full range, 360-degree sound as well as 2 passive radiators which aid the bass performance in a small enclosure.

Cortana

The integration of Microsoft's Cortana brand smart speaker features to the Invoke including virtual assistant, music streaming, home automation, and calls to/from mobile and landlines, as well as Skype-to-Skype calls, all via Skype.

Cortana could be activated through saying the wake phrase "Hey Cortana" or by a three-second long touch of the capacitive touch area on the top of the speaker.  Cortana can then subsequently be controlled through voice commands in the same way it can be controlled on Windows 10, Windows 10 Mobile, Windows Phone 8.1, Xbox One, iOS, Android devices.

Because Cortana synchronizes with one's Microsoft account, the Invoke offered interoperability between all devices on which a user has Cortana, such as their phone, allowing for synchronization with a user's Cortana Notebook including appointments, reminders, lists, places, lifestyle recommendations, traffic, commutes, packages, flights, alarms, weather, and news topics.

The Invoke also had access to Cortana Skills Kit which enabled features such as home automation, music streaming, and other mobile app integration.

Reception
Initial reviews praised the Invoke for both its high end design and build quality as well as its superior sound quality versus competitors such as Amazon Echo and Google Home and that it's "a compelling option for anyone who values music quality".

Molly Price of CNET compared the Invoke to Amazon Echo and Google Home, noting that the Invoke's metal outer casing design, smooth-turning volume control, and touchpad, "feels high-end, and that's good news for a speaker with a higher price tag than the Amazon Echo and Google Home." She also found "the Invoke's 360-degree sound to deliver fuller bass and cleaner treble than Amazon's Echo line of speakers."  Another CNET editor, Ty Pendlebury, compared the Invoke to Alexa-powered Sonos One and "found it well matched -- though each speaker had its strengths and weaknesses"

Engadget's Devindra Hardawar highly praised the Invoke's audio quality, stating "It sounds amazing, so it's particularly well-suited for audiophiles" and that "Invoke's audio is much richer and nuanced, while the Echo sounds cheap and flat by comparison."  He also noted the high build quality, mentioning the "huge difference in build quality: The Echo is made entirely of plastic, while the Invoke features a more premium-feeling metallic case, with only a bit of plastic around the base. Even the control dial feels much better than the Echo's; it turns more smoothly and feels like controlling a piece of high-end audio gear."  Hardawar credited Harman Kardon's long history in the audio equipment industry for its success of Invoke's as an audio device.

Both reviews also mentioned that while (at the time of Invoke's release) Microsoft's Cortana was behind other assistants in terms of skillset, that Microsoft and Amazon's partnership to integrate Alexa into Cortana, and vice versa would soon resolve that shortfall. As of February 2020, this has not happened.

See also
 Amazon Echo
 Google Home
 HomePod

References

External links

Harman International
Products introduced in 2017
Smart speakers


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Note that all information below is currently from our 2018 retreat.
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The concert — billed the "Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration" — will also see performances from Lee Greenwood, Jennifer Holliday, the Piano Guys and the Frontmen of Country.
Actor Jon Voight, who publicly supported Trump during the presidential campaign, is also set to make an appearance. Trump is expected to speak at the event.
Speculation has run rampant over who would perform at the inauguration after a number of artists publicly declined to perform at the event, including Garth Brooks and Elton John.
Country music duo Big & Rich were previously announced as performers for the inauguration.
In a statement, Greenwood — who previously performed at the inaugurations of Ronald Reagan, George Bush and George W. Bush — said he was "honored to be part of history again" by performing at Trump's inauguration.
Another event set for the day before the inauguration, titled "Voices of the People," will feature dozens of marching bands and other performers, according to CNN.
The artists announced Friday join previously announced inauguration performers Jackie Evancho, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir and the Radio City Rockettes. The 16-year-old Evancho is expected to sing the National Anthem at the inauguration on January 20.


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Dow has single biggest one day gain, soars 1000+ points
CNN's Alison Kosik reports.
Posted: Dec 28, 2018 3:56 AM
Updated: Dec 28, 2018 4:30 AM
Stock markets staged a miraculous comeback Wednesday following their worst-ever Christmas Eve. The Dow posted its biggest daily point gain ever.
The Dow rose 1,086 points, gaining 5%. The S&P 500 also soared 5%, and the Nasdaq was up 5.8%, pulling out of bear market territory.
The day marked the biggest percentage gain for all three indices since March 2009.
"Investors went bargain shopping the day after Christmas, where stocks just got too cheap relative to earnings, future earnings, any reasonable assessment of earnings," said Chris Rupkey, managing director of MUFG. "The coast is clear, back up the truck, investors are saying enough already, the world is not ending."
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Tech stocks led the rally. Amazon soared 9.5%, Facebook (FB), Netflix (NFLX) rose 8%, Apple (AAPL) jumped 7% and Alphabet (GOOGL) was up 6%.
Energy stocks were close behind, led by Marathon Oil (MRO), which surged 11.9% Wednesday. Hess (HES) was up 11%.
Consumer product stocks also rose sharply. Kohl's (KSS) was up 10.3% and Nike (NKE) rose 7.2%. Mastercard reported that the American retail industry had its best holiday season sales in six years. Amazon (AMZN) reported that it had a robust holiday period. That suggests rising wages and lower gas prices are helping boost consumer spending — the biggest contributor in America's GDP.
Even shares of department store JCPenney (JCP), which dipped below $1 for the first time, ended higher on the day. And Ford (F) stock, which hit a nine-year low earlier in the day, ended slightly higher.
One good day isn't a trend
Wednesday was a respite from a very rough month for investors.
Even after Wednesday's rally, the S&P 500 remains close to entering a bear market, which would end the longest bull market in history. This month is still on pace for the worst December since 1931, according to S&P Global Indices.
A partial government shutdown, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's questions about banks' health and signals that President Donald Trump could fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell upset markets on Monday, sending the Dow down 653 points.
After markets tanked on Christmas Eve, Trump said Tuesday that he remains confident in Mnuchin, but he renewed his criticism of the Fed, accusing it of hiking rates too fast.
Those doubts come of top of worries about how sharply the US economy might lose steam next year.
The only certain thing about the market this month is uncertainty. The slightest bit of bad news can turn a rally into a rout.
Asian stocks rattled
European markets were closed Wednesday. In Asia, Japan's Nikkei swung between gains and losses before closing nearly 1% higher. The shaky trading followed a 5% plunge on Christmas Day that dragged the Japanese index into a bear market. In China, the Shanghai Composite shed 0.3% on Wednesday.
Markets have been rattled in recent days by fears of slowing economic growth, exacerbated by some unsettling moves from Washington.
The turmoil in Washington is making traders in other countries fret about the stewardship of the world's biggest economy.
Global investors have a laundry list of worries, including China's slowing economy, the Trump administration's trade war with China and the unpredictability surrounding Brexit.
"There's a lot of uncertainty, and that's one of the biggest things that the market doesn't like," Andrew Sullivan, a Hong Kong-based market economist, told CNN.
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Dow roars back for 567-point gain after scary start
Dow plunges 666 points -- worst day since Brexit

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Valladares è stato un prigioniero politico ed è stato considerato da Amnesty International un prisoner of conscience a Cuba. Quando aveva 23 anni, il 30 dicembre 1960 (epoca in cui Fidel Castro non aveva ancora dichiarato che la sua fosse una rivoluzione socialista) fu arrestato e imprigionato nelle carceri cubane, accusato di essere il componente di uno dei numerosi gruppi terroristici che tentavano di bloccare con violenza il cambiamento politico in atto nell'isola, organizzando attentati dinamitardi con scatole di sigari piene di materiale ad alto potere esplosivo, che venivano collocate in teatri, negozi etc...

La prigionia e la liberazione
Valladares ha trascorso 22 anni in carcere nel penitenziario di Isla de Pinos con l'accusa di tradimento; vi è stato sottoposto al lavoro forzato e a pene disumane.

Amnesty International lo ha adottato come prisionero de conciencia, promuovendo una campagna per la libertà sostenuta da intellettuali, politici e giornalisti di tutto il mondo, in nome della sua attività di poeta, basata esclusivamente sulla sua raccolta di poesie Dalla mia sedia a rotelle, pubblicato proprio durante quegli anni di prigionia in cui sarebbe stato sottoposto a pene disumane. Secondo la Human Rights Foundation, la sua liberazione, avvenuta nel 1982, sarebbe stata effetto delle pressioni inoltrate personalmente a Castro dal presidente della Francia François Mitterrand. Di queste pressioni narra lo stesso Castro in Cien horas con Fidel e racconta che da Parigi, per il tramite di Régis Debray, gli sarebbe stato segnalato che Valladares era paralizzato a causa delle privazioni alimentari che subiva in carcere, ma un medico prontamente inviato dal lìder a visitarlo non avrebbe confermato la circostanza. Anzi, avrebbe suggerito a Castro di farlo spiare con una telecamera nascosta; il suggerimento fu accolto e - come comprovato da immagini rese pubbliche - si scoprì che di notte faceva esercizi fisici di mantenimento e che camminava perfettamente.
Castro avrebbe perciò mostrato a Debray e Valladares il filmato e posto come unica condizione per il suo rilascio che salisse le scalette dell'aereo sulle sue gambe. Nel libro "Contro ogni speranza" Valladares stesso racconta come andarono i fatti.

In seguito Régis Debray avrebbe scritto su di lui: "L'uomo non era poeta, il poeta non era paralitico, ed il cubano oggi è un americano".

Versione del governo cubano
La versione del governo cubano, come riportata dal Washington Post, è che Valladares sarebbe stato un agente della polizia segreta di Fulgencio Batista, il dittatore rovesciato da Castro.

Dopo la liberazione
Molto vicino al presidente Ronald Reagan, che gli concesse la Medaglia presidenziale al Cittadino (è la seconda onorificenza, in ordine di importanza, che si può attribuire ad un cittadino), per conto del governo statunitense è stato Presidente della European Coalition for Human Rights in Cuba ed ha ricoperto cariche diplomatiche per iniziative civili presso le Nazioni Unite, ricevendo diversi riconoscimenti. Ha fondato diverse organizzazioni internazionali per la difesa dei diritti umani, mantenendo negli anni una particolare attenzione alla causa cubana e a quella internazionale dei bambini, contro sfruttamento e prostituzione.

Nel 1985 firma una petizione a favore dell'armamento, da parte degli Stati Uniti, dei Contras, i gruppi paramilitari di estrema destra attivi in Nicaragua.

In qualità di osservatore della Human Rights Foundation, il 4 maggio 2008 era presente a Santa Cruz, in Bolivia, durante il referendum per l'indipendenza amministrativa del Dipartimento dalla Bolivia. Questo referendum - appoggiato da gruppi che incitano all'odio e al razzismo, in particolare contro gli indigeni di cui il presidente boliviano Evo Morales è rappresentante - è stato considerato incostituzionale dal governo boliviano, dalle Nazioni Unite, dall'Organizzazione degli Stati Americani e da tutti i paesi latinoamericani: Josè Luis Exeni, presidente della Corte Elettorale Nazionale boliviana, ha affermato che l'assenza degli osservatori internazionali - che Onu, Ue e Organizzazione degli Stati Americani si sono rifiutati di inviare - delegittima qualsiasi consultazione elettorale, non considerando quindi Valladares come meritevole del titolo di "osservatore internazionale".

In occasione delle Elezioni presidenziali statunitensi del 2008, ha annunciato che avrebbe appoggiato il candidato repubblicano John McCain, che già in una conferenza stampa a Miami nel marzo 2007 si era presentato con una copia del libro di Valladares Contro ogni speranza.

Opere
 El Alma de un Poeta (1988).
 Contra Toda Esperanza: 22 Años en el Gulag de las Américas (1985).
 Cavernas del Silencio (1983).
 El Corazón Con Que Vivo: Nuevos Poemas y Relatos desde mi Silla de Ruedas (1980).
 Desde mi Silla de Ruedas (1976).
 Con su propia sangre.

Note

Voci correlate
Antón Arrufat
Carlos Alberto Montaner

Collegamenti esterni

 Valladares denuncia il silenzio del Vaticano sulla sorte dei prigionieri cristiani a Cuba (2003)

Anticomunisti cubani

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Q: Why is scanf not allowing any more input? #include <stdio.h>
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My aim was to check whether a substring is present in the parent string in the string or not. I learned about the strstr() function from here.
I have previously used %[^\n]s in my codes before and they worked well.
But, in this case as soon as I hit return/enter after typing one string, the output is not a substring.
What is it that I am doing wrong?

A: The scanf() format you use %[^\n] does not have a trailing s and you should provide the maximum number of characters to store into the destination array. Since the array has a size of 100, you should specify %99[^\n].
Furthermore, you must skip the newline between the 2 %99[^\n] otherwise the second conversion will fail since there would no characters different from \n to match.
Here is a simple correction using scanf(). usr has a good alternative using fgets() which is a simpler way to parse input:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void) {
    char a[100], b[100], c;

    if (scanf("%99[^\n]%c%99[^\n]", a, &c, b) == 3 && c == '\n') {
        if (strstr(a, b))
            printf("its a substring\n");
        else
            printf("not a substring\n");
    }
    return 0;
}

A: The first call to scanf() stops when it sees a newline ('\n') but it's still in the input stream.
So, the second call fails immediately as it sees the (same) newline character.
You should always check the return value of scanf() calls for failure.
You can insert a getchar(); call in between the scanf() calls to consume the newline character. Or better use fgets() and handle the newline character.

This is how you could use fgets() in your code:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>

int main(void) {
     char a[100], b[100];
     char *ret;
     if (fgets(a, sizeof a, stdin) == NULL) {
        /* error handling */
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     a[strcspn(a, "\n")] = '\0';
     if (fgets(b, sizeof b, stdin) == NULL) {
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     b[strcspn(b, "\n")] = '\0';
     ret=strstr(a, b);
     if(ret!=NULL)
         printf("its a substring");
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         printf("not a substring");
     return 0;
}

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Harvard Computers: women astronomers
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The Glass Universe: How the Ladies of the Harvard Observatory Took the Measure of the Stars by Dava Sobel
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Albert Einstein, card file, Cepheid variable, crowdsourcing, dark matter, Dava Sobel, Edmond Halley, Edward Charles Pickering, Ernest Rutherford, Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, Harvard Computers: women astronomers, index card, invention of the telescope, Isaac Newton, John Harrison: Longitude, luminiferous ether, Magellanic Cloud, pattern recognition, QWERTY keyboard, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Solar eclipse in 1919, V2 rocket
The large female staff, sometimes derisively referred to as a harem, consisted of women young and old. They were good at math, or devoted stargazers, or both. Some were alumnae of the newly founded women's colleges, though others brought only a high school education and their own native ability. Even before they won the right to vote, several of them made contributions of such significance that their names gained honored places in the history of astronomy: Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, and Cecilia Payne. This book is their story. PART ONE The Colors of Starlight I swept around for comets about an hour, and then I amused myself with noticing the varieties of color. I wonder that I have so long been insensible to this charm in the skies, the tints of the different stars are so delicate in their variety. . . . What a pity that some of our manufacturers shouldn't be able to steal the secret of dyestuffs from the stars.
Glass plates are moved to new fireproof Brick Building Williamina Fleming prepares "A Field for Woman's Work in Astronomy" for presentation at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago; discovers her first nova on plates from Arequipa Bruce telescope sees first light at Cambridge. 1895 Edward Pickering institutes the Harvard College Observatory Circular to describe news of the observatory, beginning with Williamina Fleming's discovery of Nova Carinae (her second nova) from photographs taken at Arequipa; her third such discovery, Nova Centaurus, follows a few months later. Henrietta Swan Leavitt volunteers at the observatory Solon Bailey discovers many variables within certain star clusters of the Southern Hemisphere. 1896 Annie Jump Cannon joins the observatory as a research assistant, commences her study of the spectra of bright southern stars. Bruce telescope arrives at Arequipa. 1897 Antonia Maury publishes "The Spectra of Bright Stars" in the Annals, vol. 28, and is acknowledged as the author on the title page. 1898 National professional organization of astronomers, later named the Astronomical and Astrophysical Society of America, established at a meeting held at Harvard.
Solon Bailey completes a provisional catalogue of 76 globular clusters in the Annals, vol. 76. 1918 First of nine volumes of the greatly expanded Henry Draper Catalogue is published in the Annals, beginning with vol. 91. 1919 Edward Pickering dies. Solon Bailey serves as interim director. 1920 Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis debate the scale of the universe. 1921 Harlow Shapley is named fifth director. Henrietta Leavitt dies Harlow Shapley and Annie Cannon explore the relation between spectral type and magnitude. 1922 International Astronomical Union adopts Harvard's Draper stellar classification, representing the work of Williamina Fleming, Antonia Maury, and especially Annie Jump Cannon. 1923 Adelaide Ames enrolls as Harvard's first graduate student in astronomy. Cecilia Payne arrives from England as Harvard's second graduate student in astronomy Harvard Reprints series initiated to disseminate staff members' published articles in professional journals. 1924 Harlow Shapley issues the first in a series of papers detailing the distance, size, and structure of the Magellanic Clouds.
Day We Found the Universe by Marcia Bartusiak
Albert Einstein, Albert Michelson, Arthur Eddington, California gold rush, Cepheid variable, Copley Medal, cosmic microwave background, cosmological constant, Edmond Halley, Edward Charles Pickering, Fellow of the Royal Society, fudge factor, Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, Harvard Computers: women astronomers, horn antenna, invention of the telescope, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Magellanic Cloud, Occam's razor, Pluto: dwarf planet, Solar eclipse in 1919, William of Occam
Resembling assembly-line workers in a factory, with their plain, unadorned dresses, these dedicated women—swiftly, accurately, and cheaply—numbered each star on a given plate, determined the star's exact position, and assigned it either a spectral class or photographic magnitude. Annie Jump Cannon, who established the stellar classification system adopted internationally in the course of this work, praised Pickering's modern outlook. "He treated [the computers] as equals in the astronomical world," she claimed (somewhat Pollyannishly), "and his attitude toward them was as full of courtesy as if he were meeting them at a social gathering." He was their gallant Victorian gentleman. Pickering's first hire was his housekeeper, Williamina Fleming, who had displayed a keen intelligence in carrying out her duties. Frustrated one day by a male assistant's ineptitude, Pickering had declared that his maid could do a better job, and he found out she could.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. Babcock, A. H. 1896. "Completion of the Big Crossley Reflector Dome for the Lick Observatory." San Francisco Chronicle, September 27. Baida, P. 1986. "Dreiser's Fabulous Tycoon." Forbes 400 (October 27): 97-102. Bailey, S. I. 1919. "Variable Stars in the Cluster Messier 15." Annals of the Astronomical Observatory of Harvard College 78: 248-50. ——. 1922. "Henrietta Swan Leavitt." Popular Astronomy 30 (April): 197-99. Ball, R. S. 1895. The Great Astronomers. London: Isbister. Barnard, E. E. 1891. "Observations of the Planet Jupiter and His Satellites During 1890 with the 12-inch Equatorial of the Lick Observatory." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 51: 543-56. Belkora, L. 2003. Minding the Heavens. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing. Bennett, J.
(Roger Smith/NOAO/AURA/NSF/WIYN) With the huge number of photographic plates of the northern and southern skies stacking up at the observatory on Garden Street in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Pickering shrewdly recognized the value of smart young women yearning to make contributions in an era that generally denied them full access to scientific institutions. Here was a ready workforce, he noted in one annual observatory report, entirely "capable of doing as much and as good routine work as astronomers who would receive much larger salaries. Three or four times as many assistants can thus be employed, and the work done correspondingly increased for a given expenditure." Williamina Fleming (standing) directs her "computers" while Harvard Observatory director Edward Pickering looks on (Harvard College Observatory) These women "computers," as they were called, many with college degrees in science, were situated in two cozy workrooms, pleasantly decorated with flowered wallpaper and star charts. Working at ma hogany writing tables, crammed together, each woman through the day might peer through a magnifying glass at her selected plate or industriously record her findings in a notebook.
Big Bang by Simon Singh
Albert Einstein, Albert Michelson, All science is either physics or stamp collecting, Andrew Wiles, anthropic principle, Arthur Eddington, Astronomia nova, Brownian motion, carbon-based life, Cepheid variable, Chance favours the prepared mind, Commentariolus, Copley Medal, cosmic abundance, cosmic microwave background, cosmological constant, cosmological principle, dark matter, Dava Sobel, Defenestration of Prague, discovery of penicillin, Dmitri Mendeleev, Edmond Halley, Edward Charles Pickering, Eratosthenes, Ernest Rutherford, Erwin Freundlich, Fellow of the Royal Society, fudge factor, Hans Lippershey, Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, Harvard Computers: women astronomers, Henri Poincaré, horn antenna, if you see hoof prints, think horses—not zebras, Index librorum prohibitorum, invention of the telescope, Isaac Newton, John von Neumann, Karl Jansky, Louis Daguerre, Louis Pasteur, luminiferous ether, Magellanic Cloud, Murray Gell-Mann, music of the spheres, Olbers' paradox, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, Paul Erdős, retrograde motion, Richard Feynman, Richard Feynman, scientific mainstream, Simon Singh, Solar eclipse in 1919, Stephen Hawking, the scientific method, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, unbiased observer, V2 rocket, Wilhelm Olbers, William of Occam
But at least the women could now examine the photographic results of night-time observations and contribute to astronomy, a discipline that had largely excluded them in the past. Figure 43 The Harvard 'computers' at work, busy examining photographic plates while Edward Pickering and Williamina Fleming watch over them. On the back wall are two plots that show the oscillating brightness of stars. Although Williamina Fleming's team of women computers were supposed to focus on the drudgery of harvesting data from the photographs so that the male astronomers could conduct the research, it was not long before they were reaching their own scientific conclusions. Endless days spent staring at the photographic plates had given them an intimate familiarity with the stellar objects that they were surveying. For example, Annie Jump Cannon catalogued roughly 5,000 stars per month between 1911 and 1915, calculating the location, brightness and colour of each one.
He was still blocked from conducting military research, but within a few months his curfew was lifted and Baade had complete control of the world's best telescope under ideal viewing conditions. He also made the most of the increasingly sensitive photographic plates that were becoming available, creating images of unparalleled sharpness. Baade spent the war years studying a particular type of star known as an RR Lyrae star, a type of variable star similar to a Cepheid variable star. Williamina Fleming, who worked alongside Henrietta Leavitt at the Harvard Observatory, had shown that the variability of RR Lyrae stars could be used, like Cepheids, to measure distances. So far her technique had been used only within the Milky Way, because RR Lyrae stars are less luminous than Cepheids. However, Baade's ambition was to use the ideal viewing conditions to find RR Lyrae stars in the Andromeda Galaxy, our nearest large galaxy.
Bailey, History and Work of the Harvard Observatory 1839-1927 (McGraw Hill, 1931) An interesting and largely non-technical (if somewhat dry) account of the research projects pursued at the Harvard College Observatory from its founding until the mid-1920s. It covers the work of Henrietta Leavitt and Annie Jump Canon, and explains the techniques and instruments they employed. Harry G. Lang, Silence of the Spheres (Greenwood Press, 1994) Subtitled The Deaf Experience in the History of Science, this book includes sections on John Goodricke and Henrietta Leavitt. Edwin Powell Hubble, The Realm of the Nebulae (Yale University Press, 1982) A somewhat technical book, based on the 1935 Silliman Lectures delivered by Hubble at Yale University. It is an interesting snapshot of cosmology soon after Hubble's major breakthroughs.
Coming of Age in the Milky Way by Timothy Ferris
Albert Einstein, Albert Michelson, Alfred Russel Wallace, anthropic principle, Arthur Eddington, Atahualpa, Cepheid variable, Chance favours the prepared mind, Commentariolus, cosmic abundance, cosmic microwave background, cosmological constant, cosmological principle, dark matter, delayed gratification, Edmond Halley, Eratosthenes, Ernest Rutherford, Gary Taubes, Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, Harvard Computers: women astronomers, Henri Poincaré, invention of writing, Isaac Newton, John Harrison: Longitude, Karl Jansky, Lao Tzu, Louis Pasteur, Magellanic Cloud, mandelbrot fractal, Menlo Park, Murray Gell-Mann, music of the spheres, planetary scale, retrograde motion, Richard Feynman, Richard Feynman, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence, Searching for Interstellar Communications, Solar eclipse in 1919, source of truth, Stephen Hawking, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, Thomas Malthus, Wilhelm Olbers
At Harvard College Observatory, a leader in the dull but promising business of stellar taxonomy, photographic plates that revealed the color and spectra of tens of thousands of stars were stacked in front of "computers"—spinsters, most of them, employed as staff members at a university where their sex barred them from attending classes or earning a degree. (Henrietta Leavitt, the pioneer researcher of the Cepheid variable stars that were to prove so useful to Shapley and Hubble, was a Harvard computer.) The computers were charged with examining the plates and entering the data in neat, Victorian script for compilation in tomes like the Henry Draper Catalog, named in honor of the astrophotographer and physician who had made the first photograph of the spectrum of a star. Like prisoners marking off the days on their cell walls, they tallied their progress in totals of stars cataloged; Antonia Maury, Draper's niece, reckoned that she had indexed the spectra of over five hundred thousand stars. Theirs was authentically Baconian work, of the sort Newton and Darwin claimed to practice but seldom did, and the ladies took pride in it; as the Harvard computer Annie Jump Cannon affirmed, "Every fact is a valuable factor in the mighty whole."3 It was Cannon who, in 1915, first began to discern the shape of that whole, when she found that most stars belonged to one of about a half-dozen distinct spectral classes.
If, for instance, we have two Cepheid variables with the same period, we may assume that they have about the same absolute magnitude. If the apparent magnitude of one is four times that of the other, we conclude (barring complications such as the interference of an intervening interstellar cloud) that the dimmer star is twice as far away. The relationship between the periodicity and the absolute magnitude of Cepheid variable stars was discovered in 1912 by Henrietta Swan Leavitt, one of a number of women hired at meager wages to work as "computers" in the Harvard College Observatory office in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Leavitt spent her days examining photographic plates taken through the twenty-four-inch refracting telescope at the Harvard station in Arequipa, Peru. One of her tasks was to identify variable stars. This involved comparing thousands of pinpoint star images on plates taken on different dates, looking for changes in brightness.
Noteworthy Events: Jacobus Kapteyn, studying the proper motions of twenty-four hundred stars, finds evidence of what he calls "star streaming"—that stars in our neighborhood move in a preferred direction—an early clue to the rotation of our galaxy. Time: 1911 Noteworthy Events: Ernest Rutherford determines that most of the mass of atoms is contained in their tiny nuclei. Time: 1912 Noteworthy Events: Henrietta Swan Leavitt discovers a correlation between the absolute magnitude and the period of variability of Cepheid variable stars, opening the door to their use as intergalactic distance indicators. Time: 1913 Noteworthy Events: Niels Bohr develops theory of atomic structure, in which electrons are said to orbit the nucleus in a manner somewhat akin to that of planets orbiting the sun. Noteworthy Events: Henry Norris Russell presents a plot of the luminosities and colors of stars, extending work done in 1911 by Ejnar Hertzsprung.
The Cancer Chronicles: Unlocking Medicine's Deepest Mystery by George Johnson
Atul Gawande, Cepheid variable, Columbine, dark matter, discovery of DNA, double helix, Drosophila, epigenetics, Gary Taubes, Harvard Computers: women astronomers, Isaac Newton, Magellanic Cloud, meta analysis, meta-analysis, microbiome, mouse model, Murray Gell-Mann, phenotype, profit motive, stem cell
I was surprised how easy it was to roam at random without a hospital ID. I walked outside, where orderlies and other staff stood smoking cigarettes. I walked by the emergency room, where victims of knives, automobiles, and guns arrived in ambulances. I walked back up the steps to the surgical floor and sat again. I took out my laptop and tried to work on a book I was writing. It was about Henrietta Leavitt, the woman who in the early 1900s discovered the blinking stars astronomers use as beacons to measure the emptiness of the universe. She died, childless, of stomach cancer. Before long Nancy's brother arrived. The earth had continued to rotate and it was dark outside. The cafeteria closed, and the lights were turned off. We were shooed into a hallway where a family—the only other visitors still on the floor—waited for the outcome of someone else's long surgery.
Suppose you have two patients with the same kind of cancer. One responds to a drug and the other does not. Using a device like Hillis's, you could take their proteomic snapshots and lay one on top of the other and look for something that is different. Even if you don't know what the pattern means, it might be used as a marker to identify which patients will most likely benefit from the drug. I was reminded of Henrietta Leavitt, the astronomer who had died of stomach cancer but not before discovering Cepheid variables, the pulsating stars cosmologists use to measure the universe. She would start with two images of the same patch of sky—glass photographic plates taken a few weeks apart. One would be a negative with the stars glowing in black. She would place that plate on top of the other and hold the glass sandwich to the light.
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
Albert Einstein, Albert Michelson, Alfred Russel Wallace, All science is either physics or stamp collecting, Arthur Eddington, Barry Marshall: ulcers, Brownian motion, California gold rush, Cepheid variable, clean water, Copley Medal, cosmological constant, dark matter, Dava Sobel, David Attenborough, double helix, Drosophila, Edmond Halley, Ernest Rutherford, Fellow of the Royal Society, Harvard Computers: women astronomers, Isaac Newton, James Watt: steam engine, John Harrison: Longitude, Kevin Kelly, Kuiper Belt, Louis Pasteur, luminiferous ether, Magellanic Cloud, Menlo Park, Murray Gell-Mann, out of africa, Richard Feynman, Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking, supervolcano, Thomas Malthus, Wilhelm Olbers
Hubble's luck was to come along soon after an ingenious woman named Henrietta Swan Leavitt had figured out a way to do so. Leavitt worked at the Harvard College Observatory as a computer, as they were known. Computers spent their lives studying photographic plates of stars and making computations—hence the name. It was little more than drudgery by another name, but it was as close as women could get to real astronomy at Harvard—or indeed pretty much anywhere—in those days. The system, however unfair, did have certain unexpected benefits: it meant that half the finest minds available were directed to work that would otherwise have attracted little reflective attention, and it ensured that women ended up with an appreciation of the fine structure of the cosmos that often eluded their male counterparts. One Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon, used her repetitive acquaintance with the stars to devise a system of stellar classifications so practical that it is still in use today.
Bodanis, E = mc2, p. 83. 26 "the ultimate sagging mattress . . ." Overbye, p. 55. 27 "In some sense, gravity does not exist . . ." Kaku, "The Theory of the Universe?" in Shore, Mysteries of Life and the Universe, p. 161. 28 "Edwin enjoyed a wealth of physical endowments, too." Cropper, p. 423. 29 "At a single high school track meet . . ." Christianson, Edwin Hubble, p. 33. 30 "One Harvard computer, Annie Jump Cannon . . ." Ferris, Coming of Age in the Milky Way, p. 258. 31 "elderly stars that have moved past their 'main sequence phase' . . ." Ferguson, Measuring the Universe, pp. 166–67. 32 "They could be used as 'standard candles' . . ." Ferguson, p. 166. 33 "was developing his seminal theory . . ." Moore, Fireside Astronomy, p. 63. 34 "In 1923 he showed that a puff of distant gossamer . . ." Overbye, p. 45; and Natural History, "Delusions of Centrality," December 2002–January 2003, pp. 28–32. 35 "no one had hit on the idea of the expanding universe before."
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Extraterrestrial Civilizations by Isaac Asimov
Albert Einstein, Cepheid variable, Columbine, Edward Charles Pickering, Harvard Computers: women astronomers, invention of radio, invention of the telescope, invention of writing, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, Magellanic Cloud, Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence
They were first described in 1521 by the chronicler accompanying Magellan's voyage of circumnavigation of the globe—so they are called the Large Magellanic Cloud and the Small Magellanic Cloud. They were not studied in detail until John Herschel observed them from the astronomic observatory at the Cape of Good Hope in 1834 (the expedition that fueled the Moon Hoax). Like the Milky Way, the Magellanic Clouds turned out to be assemblages of vast numbers of very dim stars, dim because of their distance. In the first decade of the twentieth century, the American astronomer Henrietta Swan Leavitt (1868–1921) studied certain variable stars in the Magellanic Clouds. By 1912, the use of these variable stars (called Cepheid variables because the first to be discovered was in the constellation Cepheus) made it possible to measure vast distances that could not be estimated in other ways. The Large Magellanic Cloud turned out to be 170,000 light-years away and the Small Magellanic Cloud 200,000 light-years away.
Fool Me Twice: Fighting the Assault on Science in America by Shawn Lawrence Otto
affirmative action, Albert Einstein, anthropic principle, Berlin Wall, Brownian motion, carbon footprint, Cepheid variable, clean water, Climategate, Climatic Research Unit, cognitive dissonance, Columbine, commoditize, cosmological constant, crowdsourcing, cuban missile crisis, Dean Kamen, desegregation, double helix, energy security, Exxon Valdez, fudge factor, ghettoisation, Harlow Shapley and Heber Curtis, Harvard Computers: women astronomers, informal economy, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), invisible hand, Isaac Newton, Louis Pasteur, mutually assured destruction, Richard Feynman, Richard Feynman, Ronald Reagan, Saturday Night Live, shareholder value, sharing economy, smart grid, Solar eclipse in 1919, stem cell, the scientific method, The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith, Thomas Kuhn: the structure of scientific revolutions, transaction costs, University of East Anglia, War on Poverty, white flight, Winter of Discontent, working poor, yellow journalism, zero-sum game
What he saw changed humanity's view of the universe forever—and would further roil the controversy over science's role in defining the origins of creation. A conservative Baconian observer, Hubble photographed a small blinking star in the Andromeda nebula that he identified as a Cepheid variable. This observation would become iconic in its power. Another astronomer, Harvard College Observatory's Henrietta Leavitt, had in 1912 shown something remarkable about Cepheid variable stars: The longer their period, the brighter they appeared to be. This made sense. Stars were very faint, and to probe deeply, astronomers began to mount cameras to their telescopes and take very-long-exposure photographs on glass plates so they could capture light from stars that were too faint to see with the human eye. A blinking star that has a longer "on" period deposits more light on the plate than one with a shorter period.


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Nathan Daniel Beau Connolly (born Nov. 6, 1977) is an American historian and professor. He is the Herbert Baxter Adams Associate Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and co-host of the U.S. history podcast BackStory. He is also the author of A World More Concrete: Real Estate and the Remaking of Jim Crow South Florida. A self-professed "desegregationist," Connolly, in 2016, became the first African-American U.S. historian tenured at Johns Hopkins University, and the first African American to win either the Kenneth T. Jackson Book Award from the Urban History Association (2015) or the Bennett H. Wall Award from the Southern Historical Society (2016).

Career

Connolly attended Nova High School and St. Thomas University, graduating magna cum laude in 1999. Following St. Thomas, Connolly earned a master's degree in the University of Chicago's Master of Arts Program in the Social Sciences (2000) and a doctorate in History at the University of Michigan (2008). At Michigan, he helped found the Black Humanities Collective, a graduate programming and mentoring group, in 2004, and eventually won awards for essay writing, teaching, and the best dissertation written in Michigan's Department of History. After three years of coursework, Connolly moved to South Florida and began researching his dissertation, By Eminent Domain: Race and Capital in the Building of an American South Florida. Inspired by work in Atlantic History and new literature on the history of the "Sunbelt," Connolly explored how, in Greater Miami, color-blind forms of racism emerged through political struggles over real estate, worker migration, and tourism. Particularly between the 1930s and 1970s, local politicians, boosters, and activists used housing and land confiscation laws to rewrite the rules of Jim Crow segregation. Over time, their converging and conflicting interests helped transform Miami, once a sleepy Southern town, into what many now consider "The Capital of the Caribbean."

After completing his dissertation, Connolly assumed an assistant professorship in the Department of History at Johns Hopkins University. At Hopkins, Connolly became variously active in the Center for Africana Studies; the Program on Racism, Immigration, and Citizenship (which he co-directed in 2014–2015); and the 21st Century Cities Initiative. Connolly also began advising graduate students, offering graduate seminars in American history, urban history, African American biography, and historians' applications of Critical race theory. During the 2015–2016 academic year, Connolly served as Visiting Professor of History and Social and Cultural Analysis at New York University. Connolly became the Herbert Baxter Adams Chair and Associate Professor in History at Johns Hopkins University in 2016. At that time, he also took on affiliations in the Program in Museums and Society; the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute; and the Center for Medical Humanities and Social Medicine.

Connolly joined BackStory, produced by Virginia Humanities, in December 2016. Over the preceding eight years, the program had been a public radio broadcast. Connolly came aboard with the conversion of the show to podcasting and the addition of Joanne Freeman. The show's co-hosts currently include Ed Ayers, Brian Balogh, and Freeman, with Peter Onuf serving as host-emeritus.

Selected articles and essays

Beyond his book, A World More Concrete (), Connolly's written work reflects his broad interests in history, politics, pop culture and the digital humanities.

"Mapping Inequality: 'Big Data' Meets Social History in the Story of Redlining," with LaDale Winling, Robert K. Nelson, and Richard Marciano, The Routledge Handbook of Spatial History, Ian Gregory, Don, Lafreniere, Don Debats, eds., (Routledge UK, 2018, 502-524 )
"How 'Black Panther' Taps into 500 Years of History," The Hollywood Reporter, Feb. 18, 2018.
"A White Story," Dissent, Forum on Neoliberalism, Jan. 22, 2018.
"Charlottesville Showed that Liberalism Can't Defeat White Supremacy. Only Direct Action Can," The Washington Post, August 15, 2017.
"Black and Woke in Capitalist America: Revisiting Robert Allen's Black Awakening…for New Times' Sake," Items, March 7, 2017.
"Trump Syllabus 2.0," with Keisha Blain, Public Books, June 28, 2016; Spanish translation, February 22, 2017.
"A Black Power Method," Public Books, June 15, 2016.
"How Did African Americans Discover They Were Being 'Redlined'?" Talking Points Memo, "Primary Source," August 9, 2015.
"Notes on a Desegregated Method: Learning from Michael Katz and Others," Journal of Urban History 41, no. 4 (July 2015): 584–591.
"The Case For Repair," Parts 1 and 2, The City in History (2014).

Works in progress
Four Daughters: An American Story
Black Capitalism: The "Negro Problem" and the American Economy

References

External links
N. D. B. Connolly

Living people
1977 births
21st-century American historians
21st-century American male writers
Johns Hopkins University faculty
University of Michigan alumni
American male non-fiction writers
African-American historians


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22 Feb 2021 Baptist Health officially marks 100 years of operation, kicks off year-long commemoration
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Today, Baptist Health officially celebrates 100 years of operation since it began serving its first patients in a small wood-frame building in downtown Little Rock.
The raising of new flags this morning at hospital campuses within the system marked the occasion a century after Baptist State Hospital, which grew into the Baptist Health system, became a legal entity on Feb. 16, 1921.
On Feb. 16, three employees raised a new 100th anniversary flag at the Baptist Health Medical Center-Little Rock campus. The employees are Martha Moten (from left), Sarenity Gomez and Andrea Omar.
The event also kicked off a year-long commemoration that, out of concern for health and safety amid the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, will initially be conducted virtually through social media and via a special website section.
"When the Arkansas Baptist State Convention incorporated Baptist State Hospital in 1921, it made a commitment to provide quality, faith-based care that continues today," said Troy Wells, president and CEO of Baptist Health. "Through 100 years, we have stayed true to that original mission and remain committed to delivering on that promise into the next 100 years."
"Our 100-year anniversary represents a century of responding to health needs with Christian compassion and personal concern. The story of Baptist Health is the story of people working to advance quality health care for the communities we serve, overcoming challenges to achieve significant developments in health care and being there for every single patient who needs us."
Baptist Health plans to host public and employee events to celebrate its 100th anniversary at a later date, dependent on the prevalence of COVID-19 as well as federal, state and local guidance.
For more information about Baptist Health's 100th anniversary or to share a story about how the health care organization has positively impacted you, visit BaptistHealth100.com.


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Lonza Group Ltd.. (8/2/12). "Press Release: Lonza Announces License Agreement with iPS Academia Japan". Walkersville, MD.
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Organisation Lonza Group AG (SWX: LONN)
Today Lonza Group (Group)
Group Lonza Group (Group)
Organisation 2 iPS Academia Japan Inc. (AJ)
Group University of Kyoto (Kyoto University)
Product iPSC technology (induced pluripotent stem cell technology)
Product 2 cell therapy
Index term Lonza–Univ Kyoto: stem cell technology, 201208– ww non-excl lisense to iPSC patent portfolio of iPS Acadamia Japan Inc
Person Yamanaka, Shinya (Univ Kyoto 201004– Director of CiRA + Nobel Laureate 2012)
Person 2 Utiger, Lukas (Lonza 201208 COO of Lonza Bioscience STEPPED DOWN 2/13)
Lonza adds to its market leading portfolio of cell therapy services and products, demonstrating its commitment to regenerative medicine
Lonza has entered a worldwide, non-exclusive licensing agreement with iPS Academia Japan, Inc. for its induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) patent portfolio. By entering this agreement, Lonza demonstrates its commitment to the field of regenerative medicine and reinforces its belief that iPSCs are a key platform technology for the cell therapy market.
In 2007, Dr. Shinya Yamanaka and colleagues at Kyoto University became the first to successfully convert adult human cells to an embryonic stem cell-like state. This process, called cellular reprogramming, generated the world's first human induced pluripotent stem cell line. The following June, iPS Academic Japan was established to manage the intellectual property stemming from this seminal discovery and others made by Dr. Yamanaka and his team.
By gaining rights to these patents, Lonza is adding to its market leading portfolio of cell therapy services and products that include process development and assay development as well as manufacturing therapeutic cells under current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP). The company is poised to apply its considerable expertise in the manufacture of therapeutic cells to iPSC generation and cell banking. Producing cGMP-grade cell banks is seen as an important first milestone necessary to bring an iPSC-based therapy to the clinic.
"As the iPSC field advances and clinical applications become closer to reality, Lonza is ready to support our clients in navigating the significant hurdles of process scale-up and optimization, cGMP manufacturing, and regulatory compliance," said Lukas Utiger, Chief Operating Officer of Lonza Bioscience. He added, "In our pluripotent stem cell technologies group, we continue to help our clients by 'building bridges from research to therapy'. With this license in place, we are well positioned to support our clients as they move from the research laboratory to a cGMP cell therapy suite."
"I am very pleased to hear that Lonza, a worldwide biotechnology company, has signed an intellectual property agreement with iPS Academia Japan," said Dr. Shinya Yamanaka, director of the Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA), Kyoto University. "I hope that the deal will help speed up the movement towards bringing iPS cell-based drug development at the earliest possible stage."
"iPS Academia Japan is pleased to grant a non-exclusive license to Lonza, a worldwide leader in lifescience contract manufacturing. Lonza is an ideal partner to drive iPSC technology towards commercial success," said Shosaku Murayama, President and Chief Executive Officer of iPS AJ.
About iPSC Academic Japan
iPS Academia Japan, Inc. (AJ) is an affiliate of Kyoto University, and its main role is, among other activities, to manage and utilize the patents and other intellectual properties held/controlled by Kyoto University and other universities in the field of iPSC technologies so that the research results contribute to health and welfare worldwide. AJ was established in Kyoto in June 2008. AJ's patent portfolio consists of more than 60 patent families (the total number of patent applications is about 220 cases) in the iPSC technology as of April 2012, and about 50 license arrangements have been executed with domestic or international enterprises. For more information, visit www.ips-cell.net.
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Andrew Higgins and the Atomic Bombs
The Top-Secret Assignment that Brought New Orleans's Most Famous Boat Builder Inside the Manhattan Project
The National WWII Museum has been researching Higgins Industries' involvement in this top secret work and wants to hear from anyone who worked on this assembly line, or who may have information on the atomic bomb-related work at the Michoud plant in New Orleans. Please email research assistant Kali Martin at The National WWII Museum if you have any information on the atomic line at Higgins Industries.
"Orleanians, from Youths to Grandmothers, Help Build Atom Bombs," The Times-Picayune New Orleans States , August 12, 1945. Courtesy of Jerry Strahan.
The Atomic Age Quietly Comes to New Orleans
Catherine Dolles (pictured with her face and arms covered with dust from the production process) served as the "lead woman in inspection" on a production line at Higgins Industries' Michoud plant during the final year of World War II. Mrs. Dolles, along with thousands of other employees, worked on parts that, unknown to them, were destined for the Manhattan Project—the top-secret drive to build an atomic bomb. "Orleanians, from Youths to Grandmothers, Help Build Atom Bombs," The Times-Picayune New Orleans States, August 12, 1945. Courtesy of Jerry Strahan.
In August 1944 Higgins Industries, under the direction of Andrew Higgins, was dealt a costly blow when a contract for C-46 cargo planes was canceled. This represented a huge loss for Higgins Industries and the city, as the sprawling Michoud plant in eastern New Orleans had been completed specifically to build these cargo planes. The contract cancellation made headlines across the country and caught the attention of the Tennessee Eastman Corporation, which operated the electromagnetic separation plant "Y-12" at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. The Y-12 plant was responsible for producing uranium to be used in atomic bombs. By the end of the month, Higgins Industries had a contract to make carbon components for Manhattan Project production work.
That fall, roughly 2,500 workers were selected from existing lines at Higgins Industries' various plants to work on a new line. The workers had to swear an oath of secrecy about the work they would be doing—although as far as they knew, they were making radar and radio parts. Andrew Higgins's son Frank was put in charge of the operation at the Michoud plant, with a mandate for absolute secrecy: "Our right hand couldn't know what the left hand was doing," according to Higgins. Despite the need for secrecy, few security measures were put into place. No armed guards roamed the premises, lest their presence tip off the workers that their work was more than they had been told.
The "vile, dirty and dangerous" work, as Andrew Higgins described it in a press conference, was complicated and changeable: Once the lines were up and running, workers produced parts that met the high standards required. But just after the carbon order was placed with Higgins Industries, another order came in for metal spare parts. Lines had to be added and adjusted to meet the shifting needs of the Tennessee Eastman Corporation.
Working on this these lines were mothers, grandmothers, fathers, and veterans. Nearly all of them had family members in uniform. Some drove 100 miles each day to take their place on the line. Some came on crutches due to physical disabilities. Ten hours a day, six days a week, they took their places on the line. On the carbon line, workers were mostly shielded by protective clothing, but their hands and faces would be blackened by dust by the time they left the plant.
The difficult and dirty work continued over the next year, including Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day. The demand for parts was continuously increasing. If any of workers questioned the work, they kept their doubts quiet. In the year of production before an atomic bomb was dropped, there were no reported intelligence leaks at Higgins.
"The potentialities of it intrigue the mind of man."
The nose of the Enola Gay, probably on a Tinian airfield in 1945. Gift of David Lawrence, from the collection of The National World War II Museum
As the workday came to a close on August 5, 1945, across the world three B-29 planes made their way to the skies over mainland Japan. There it was early morning of August 6, and the world was on the brink of a new era. Americans awoke on August 6 to news of the destruction of Hiroshima, Japan, by a single bomb that was more destructive than anything seen before. With the release of the first atomic bomb, nicknamed "Little Boy," dropped from the B-29 Enola Gay, the world had entered the atomic age.
That night Andrew Higgins spoke at a press conference in Chicago. He revealed that the manufacturing process his employees had believed to be routine was in fact work for the Manhattan Project. Although he couldn't divulge any details about what they had been doing, Higgins was able to make it known that the work at Michoud had helped to build the most powerful weapons in the world. Higgins remarked about the atomic bomb, "The potentialities of it intrigue the mind of man." He applauded the hard work of the men and women on this most secretive line, calling them "heroes and heroines."
Unraveling the Mystery
The Alpha II track at the Y-12 facility. Image from Manhattan District History, Manhattan Project, US Army Corps of Engineers, Book V: Electromagnetic Project, Volume 6 – Operation.
Much of the documentation surrounding the uranium bomb Little Boy was destroyed after the war when it was determined to be less effective than the plutonium bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan. There is little documentation available on Higgins's involvement with the Manhattan Project. What is known has come from documentation from the National Archives, Andrew Jackson Higgins and the Boats that Won World War II by Jerry Strahan, and newspaper articles published in 1945 by The Times-Picayune in New Orleans. From this, we know that workers on that dirty, carbon dust–coated line were making parts for the Alpha and Beta tracks at the Y-12 facility in Oak Ridge.
The Alpha and Beta tracks were the large calutrons in which uranium 235 (U235), used in the Little Boy bomb, was separated from uranium 238. Through an electromagnetic process, U235 could be isolated and captured. The captured U235 was then carried by a single person to New Mexico via train. Although we know that the parts made at Higgins went into the process, we have not found confirmation of how they were used. The metal spares made also went to the Alpha and Beta tracks, but their exact nature remains a mystery.
The research to understand the exact contributions of Higgins Industries to the Manhattan Project is ongoing. As part of this research the Museum is looking for former Higgins workers who worked on the atomic line. Do you know someone who worked on the atomic line at Higgins? If you worked on the line, or know someone who did, please email research assistant Kali Martin at The National WWII Museum.
Catherine Dolles served as the "lead woman in inspection" on a production line at Higgins Industries' Michoud plant during the final year of World War II. Mrs. Dolles, along with thousands of other employees, worked on parts that, unknown to them, were destined for the Manhattan Project—the top-secret drive to build an atomic bomb. "Orleanians, from Youths to Grandmothers, Help Build Atom Bombs," The Times-Picayune New Orleans States, August 12, 1945. Courtesy of Jerry Strahan.
"Orleanians, from Youths to Grandmothers, Help Build Atom Bombs," The Times-Picayune New Orleans States, August 12, 1945. Courtesy of Jerry Strahan.
Bertha Sheridan worked on the atomic line despite being partially paralyzed. "Orleanians, from Youths to Grandmothers, Help Build Atom Bombs," The Times-Picayune New Orleans States, August 12, 1945. Courtesy of Jerry Strahan.
Ethel Bright, mother of three sons in the Army Air Forces and grandmother to two, worked on the atomic line at Higgins. "Orleanians, from Youths to Grandmothers, Help Build Atom Bombs," The Times-Picayune New Orleans States, August 12, 1945. Courtesy of Jerry Strahan.
The nose of the Enola Gay, probably on a Tinian airfield in 1945. Gift of David Lawrence, from the collection of The National WWII Museum.
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Deprivation scales derived from multiple, typically dichotomous, indicators, are widely used to monitor households' standards of living, and to complement measures of living standards based on income. We use an item response modelling (IRM) framework to address several issues concerning the derivation of deprivation scales in general and the use of sum-score deprivation indices in particular. Although we favour the IRM approach over the sum-score one in principle, we find in an illustrative analysis of basic lifestyle deprivation in Britain in the mid-1990s that both approaches provide very similar pictures of households' circumstances. We conclude with further discussion of the relative merits of the two approaches and highlight some topics for future research.