Public drinking fountains used to be everywhere, providing a reliable source of free, high-quality drinking water outside the home. They are a great alternative to bottled water, with its steep environmental costs and high price (200 to 1,000 times more expensive than tap water or more). Drinking fountains, however, have been disappearing from public spaces over the past few decades. Poor public perception and concerns over water quality (as illustrated in the "water fountain episode" of Parks and Recreation) have played a role in their disappearance.
Water quality issues at public fountains, when they exist, can be traced to poor cleaning and maintenance or old piping and fixture parts. To ensure the quality and continuance of public drinking fountains, (1) they must be routinely cleaned and maintained; (2) old drinking fountains with lead parts must be replaced or new fountains installed in high-traffic areas, and; (3) modern tools must be developed to let people know how to find these fountains.
The first two steps are decisions and actions that must be taken by our public agencies, politicians, businesses, and communities. But the third is something that new technology and social media tools can – and are beginning – to offer. We have compiled a list of smartphone applications that will help find drinking fountains and improve access to this valuable public resource.
We examined 27 Android and iOS drinking fountain mapping apps. Of these, about 37% are available on iOS, 44% on Android, and 19% on both platforms. No perfect app exists; the majority are either largely lacking in fountain locations or are too specific to a certain region to be useful to most users, but we also understand that the options are changing rapidly, and new or updated apps regularly appear. Below, we identify the current apps that are relatively useful and comprehensive and also provide a list of helpful features that we would like to see developers incorporate into future drinking fountain apps or improvements.
See appendix for a comprehensive list of drinking fountain mapping apps. The list of reviewed apps does not include those that no longer work. Some developers have created the same type of apps for each major city (for example, the Paris Amenities Map); for these we only include one example in our list.
"Drinking Water Fountain" is our featured app for Android. NiSoft, the app developer, draws on crowd-sourced data from OpenStreetMap (OSM) to map water fountains all over the world. Cities with a high number of drinking fountain locations on the app include New York, Zurich, Paris, Madrid, and Rome. Drinking Water Fountain has within-app route navigation (it does not redirect to another app), an offline mode, and a user-input feature that allows users to add new water fountain locations to the map if they have a free account with OSM. The app is straightforward and easy to navigate. It has colored pins to indicate the status of fountains: "green" means functional, "blue" is unknown, and "red" is broken. A very limited number of locations come with descriptions of the fountain's location and features, such as whether the fountain has a bottle refilling option. Users have the option of changing the distance units between miles and kilometers. The app was last updated in April 2015.
Our featured app for iOS, "WeTap Drinking Fountain Finder," has a long history. Early versions were developed by Evelyn Wendel, UCLA, the Pacific Institute, Google app developers, and Max di Cosimo, an Italian app designer. WeTap is now its own nonprofit organization, with a goal to "improve awareness, access, and use of public drinking fountains," thereby improving public health and decreasing the consumption of single-use plastic bottles. Easy to use, the WeTap app maps public drinking fountains on a global scale, providing specific information for each individual fountain. By clicking on the location pins, users can see specific characteristics of each fountain, such as the quality of water flow, whether the fountain is working, and if it is refill- and/or dog-friendly. Users can add and rate water fountains, and there is also an option to add a photograph. However, it is unclear how WeTap verifies the accuracy of user-input information.
The app has many fountain locations relative to other global drinking fountain apps for both iOS and Android. However, some reviewers cite issues of inaccurate and/or missing locations, suggesting the need to create incentives to promote user engagement as well as a better input verification system. Version 1.0.0 (current) was released in November 2014 and has not be updated since then.
"Quench," a regional app, is available for both Android and iOS. TVOntario, a government-owned educational television network from Canada, developed this app along with the Bell Fund, the Canada Media Fund, and the Water Brothers TV show. They collaborated with local companies in the Greater Toronto Area to map restaurants and businesses that offer access to free drinking water as well as public drinking fountains. User-submitted locations are screened by the app administrator before being uploaded to the map. Users can also report a location if it is listed on the site but does not provide free water, which is handy when a fountain is not working or when a business turns a Quench user away. The app includes ratings for fountain cleanliness and temperature and a description of each fountain's location. It integrates Google Maps into its route navigation system. The majority of the app ratings are positive, but reviewers have commented that the app does not work for Samsung Galaxy S5 phones. The app (Version 2.1.0) was last updated in 2013.
These featured apps are some of the best tools currently available to find the nearest safe and functional public drinking fountains. However, each has limitations; a high number of fountains and accuracy of information is more often provided in apps with limited geographic scope. Apps that have global coverage, on the other hand, generally suffer from a lack of comprehensive and up-to-date data on fountain location and quality. There is a lot of room to make drinking fountain finders more user-friendly and useful. We provide a list of water fountain app "ideal features" below that could help stimulate the use of public drinking fountains.
A comprehensive list of locations. The most common complaint reviewers have is the insufficient number of mapped fountains.
A description of the fountain location, the state of the fountain, the quality of the water, and the water pressure. Photos are also helpful.
Ease of adding new fountains to the map or modifying existing data. Users should also be able to submit additional information about the fountain, such as whether the fountain is indoor or outdoor, and whether it has an additional bottle filler and/or pet fountain.
A verification mechanism for user-generated data. For example, new locations could be approved by the developer before being added, or the app could only publish locations that have been reported x number of times.
A way to encourage users to add new fountains to the app's database.
Timestamps on these submissions to show how recent the information is.
The app could map other public amenities (such as restrooms, information kiosks, and bus stations) to improve functionality.
An option for users to rate fountains and filter their results based on fountain ratings.
Different location pins with different colors and symbols to differentiate between public drinking fountains and businesses that offer free drinking water (if the app has partnered with local businesses), broken and working fountains, and whether the locations are reported by users or not (if applicable).
Downloadable maps for offline use.
Route navigation to nearby fountains. The option to choose different modes of transportation, such as walking, biking, driving, or taking public transit, is an extra perk.
Distance from the user's current location to the nearest water fountain, provided in both imperial and metric system units. This feature should be available for apps with a global scope.
Contact information for the agency in charge of maintaining the fountain listed in the fountain description, or the capability to alert a participating agency directly about needed repairs.
A way to encourage the public use of drinking fountains. This could include social media buttons to share fountain locations or an integration with a water intake reminder app containing suggestions for the nearest fountains.
Below is a comprehensive list of 27 water fountain finder apps available on iOS or Android platform or both, not including those that do not work. The reviews are current as of April 2017.
This is a well-designed, easy to use map of water fountains, restrooms, and historic sites along the Austin Trail in Austin, Texas. The app is simple and fast. Without extra features, everything loads quickly and the locations of the fountains and restrooms are easy to distinguish. It is also able to provide notifications when the user is near a water fountain or restroom. However, it does not offer any information about individual restrooms or fountains, which would be useful and necessary for a comprehensive drinking fountain map.
Limited to Rome's historical center, Drinking Water appears to have a comprehensive list of fountains, but it is likely out of date (the app was last updated in 2010). By clicking on a pin on the map, users can access a photo of each fountain, report a broken fountain, or add a note. Fountains that are not working are crossed out on the map.
Findafountain started out as a mapping app for London, United Kingdom, but it has expanded to other areas in the UK as well as abroad. The fountain list is most comprehensive for London. The app relies on registered users ("volunteers") to provide and correct drinking fountain information. The app website indicates that any changes to the map will go through a "rigorous verification process before going public," but it is unclear what this process entails. Overall, there is adequate information for the fountains that are mapped. The app differentiates between indoor and outdoor fountains, and the state of repair and quality of water are shown by clicking on the location pins.
Fountain Finder is specific to the Lakefront Trail in Chicago. The app costs $0.99 to download. It shows the location of public fountains, restrooms, and places to eat. It designates which fountains are available year-round, identifies pet-friendly fountains, provides photos of each fountain, and allows users to save the location of their favorite fountains.
This is an outdated map of public fountains in Rome (along with a few other international locations). One interesting feature is that the app has a link to a book with a paper map of Rome's public fountains.
Designed as a bike map, this app includes public features that might be of interest to bikers, including water fountains. The app costs $0.99 and only covers New York City.
This app is made specifically for Yerevan, Armenia; "Pulpulak" is an Armenian word for a public drinking fountain. This app allows users to search for fountains by street name, upload locations, and rate fountains and fountain water by several different criteria, including cleanliness, coolness, and taste. Users can filter their results based on these ratings.
Although Tap Map is limited to Vancouver, it appears to have an extensive map of public fountains in the city. Clicking on a fountain will reveal a description of its location, who can access it, and who, if anyone, maintains it. Users can also submit new fountain locations.
Well-designed, fast, and easy to use, WeTap maps public water fountains globally and also provides information about each individual fountain. By clicking on the pins, users can see the quality of water flow, whether or not a fountain is working, and whether a fountain has an additional bottle filler and/or pet fountain. WeTap features many fountain locations when compared to other global iOS drinking fountain finders, but some reviews cite inaccurate or missing locations, suggesting there is still information that needs to be added or reviewed (the total number of written reviews is limited).
WC Venice maps restrooms and drinking fountains in Venice, Italy. Location and fees, as well as the hours of operation for weekdays, weekends, and holidays, are provided for each toilet and fountain, when applicable. There is a route navigation feature, and users can input new locations and update information about existing ones.
This app was created by the Tennessee Clean Water Network to help reduce the consumption of sugary drinks. It maps drinking fountains, bottle refill stations, and public pet fountains and includes route navigation. Each fountain has a description and, in certain cases, a photo. A user can add a location by inputting the current location or adding a pin remotely. The geographic scope is limited to Tennessee, USA, and a few other locations in Seattle, Los Angeles, Atlanta, and Salt Lake City.
A redeveloped version of I Nasoni di Roma, this app is one of the more popular drinking water apps. It is no-frills and straightforward to use. It maps the location of drinking fountains in Italy and provides distances and route guidance, but it does not provide information about each fountain.
This app features within-app route guidance to the nearest fountain, an offline mode, and the ability for users to add new fountains through an OpenStreetMap account. The app has a relatively large number of locations, especially for more populated areas. It color-codes location pins to indicate functional or broken fountains as well as fountains that do not have an exact location.
This app, developed by Because Water, has some interesting and innovative ideas for drinking fountain mapping. With the goal of decreasing the number of plastic bottles bought when people are outdoors, Drop In App partnered with businesses to allow the public to access tap water for free. The end result is a nicely designed, easy-to-use map of participating businesses and public water fountains. Pins are color-coded to differentiate between public fountains and participating businesses and to show user-reported locations. Currently, there appears to only be an adequate number of fountain locations listed for particular New York neighborhoods.
This app was developed as an electronic trail map for the city of Columbia, Missouri. The developers used GIS to create the system, mapping amenities including water fountains, bike repair stations, and restrooms.
This app aims to help users find and report free public water sources. Markers on the map indicate the type of water source (e.g., drinking fountains are marked as green) as well as the distance of each fountain from the user's location (e.g., fountains that are closer to the user's location are shown in yellow). One significant drawback of this app is that it requires a Gmail account sign-in before users can access it.
A pixelated map of Paris with the location of nearly every service available, from bicycle rentals to pubs. The app shows more than 15 different amenities, but users can only see public restrooms, ATMs, banks, and post offices with the free version – everything else, including water fountains, comes with the $0.99 version. The app developer has also created an Amenities Map app for 33 other major cities besides Paris.
Created by a software engineering student at the University of Waterloo, this app shows public fountains, restrooms, and restaurants. The app draws information from OpenStreeMap. It does not have an offline mode or colored pins to quickly identify functional fountains.
Quick and easy to use, the limited scope of this app (17 fountain locations) would only make it useful for those in the main area of Ljubljana, Slovenia. By clicking on a fountain, the user can also see nearby attractions.
TrailLink provides a number of trail maps and includes the location of water fountains and other amenities along each trail. In-app purchases are required to access all the maps. This app has an offline feature, which is a useful feature for many hikers.
This app includes the locations of drinking fountains and over 20 other services and amenities in Vancouver. It also provides information on current weather and road closures. In-app purchases may be required to access some of these features.
Vienna Mobile is an ad-supported mobile application that maps over 30 attractions and amenities, including drinking fountains, in Vienna, Austria. It provides route guidance via walking, driving, or public transportation. The app shows real-time departures for public transit and provides information on events in the city.
This app maps locations of drinking fountains, benches, restrooms, and picnic tables. It is one of the few apps containing a relatively comprehensive list of fountains, since the app relies on OpenStreetMap. However, Benches can be challenging to use: it lacks route navigation and has limited zoom-out capability.
This app is relatively fast and appealingly designed. It includes the locations of publicly available restrooms, BBQ pits, and restaurants, as well as drinking fountains. While there is a decent number of fountain locations listed, the list is by no means comprehensive. The app uses the same symbol for all features (for example, a BBQ pit is marked using the same symbol as for a water fountain), so it is not possible to distinguish between the pins on the map unless the user filters out everything except for one feature or manually clicks on each pin. The geographic scope is limited to Southern Australia.
This mapping app provides information on both public drinking fountains and decorative fountains. It has a simple, yet user-friendly design, and provides route guidance, the distance from the user's location to each fountain, and basic information about each fountain. Fountain locations are available in either "list view" – which the user can organize by address, name, or distance – or "map view." The app distinguishes between regular fountains and those that are historically or artistically significant and provides additional historical information about the latter. One important negative aspect of this app is that it requires a number of permissions before installation, including calendar, phone status and identity, and network connections.
TVOntario, a government-owned educational television network from Canada, developed this app along with the Bell Fund, the Canada Media Fund, and the Water Brothers TV show. They partnered with local businesses in the Greater Toronto Area to map businesses and drinking fountains at which people can access free water. Users can submit locations, which TVO then screens before uploading them to the map. Users also have the option to report a location if it is listed on the site but does not actually provide free water. The fountains can be rated based on cleanliness and temperature. Although the majority of the ratings for this app are positive, some comments indicate that the app does not work for Samsung Galaxy S5 phones.
This app partnered with local businesses in the metropolitan DC area in order to increase public water access. It provides a map which includes pins for both the locations of public fountains and participating businesses providing access to drinking water, but it does not visually differentiate between the two, so users must click on each pin to find out what type of location it represents. Users can "favorite" locations or share locations on social media, such as on Facebook and Twitter.


This was another memory quilt that was particularly loaded with emotion. A cousin asked me to make two memory quilts from her husband's clothes for her children. I'd grown up seeing my second cousins off and on throughout the years, but it had been way too long since we'd last met up. In fact, the last time I'd seen them was when my boy cousin was going through his "girls are icky" phase, and he wouldn't talk to me. Since he was one of the few cousins close to my age, you'll understand when I tell you that it was YEARS before I forgave him this slight.
I'm 35 now. I suppose I'm over it.
Anyhow, when their mother, my beloved cousin (who has never gone through a phase where girls were icky) asked me to make memory quilts, of course I agreed. When she gave me the clothes, I noticed that there were no t-shirts at all. The bags were a huge lot of collared dress shirts.
Well we looked at a lot of options for how to incorporate dress shirts into a memory quilt, and in the end we decided there was something about the collar on the shirt that needed to stay. That being said, did you know that collared shirts weren't meant to lie flat? They were a bit of a doozy to finally get right, but I managed to get it situated in the end, including a quick stitch down the front to ensure the shirt front didn't open up. I used patches and other parts of the shirts to make the borders and sashing intersections.
I did add in three pictures for each quilt.
I have been assured by the same guy cousin that his quilt gets a lot of use and has held up well to its constant use. That always makes me happy to hear that 1. a quilt I made is regularly used and 2. it's holding up well.
In the end, I tried to do honor to the father's memory and make sure his shirts reflected him. It was a different challenge with all those curves, collars, and buttons, but I loved the end result!
This quilt goes down as one of the most emotional quilts I've done. For starters, I was asked to complete it by another quilter, so I felt like it needed to be perfect. Another consideration was the fact that it was a memory quilt in memory of a younger person. I'd done memory quilts before, and it wasn't the first one I'd made for a mother. But this one felt different, and I wanted more than anything to do the lady's memory justice. After all, I remembered her memorial service because I volunteered to help in the church nursery while it was going on.
Some things that stood out, however, were that my normal medium was gone. This was not a standard t-shirt quilt. In fact, there wasn't a single t-shirt in any of the bags of clothes I was given! But what I DID have was dress clothes. Clothes with cool textures. Clothes with beautiful embroidery. Clothes with unique colors. So I sat on the quilt idea and wondered what to do.
The mother, being a quilter, had suggested something akin to a "crazy quilt" style, but none of the patterns or images I found online seemed to be exactly right. I looked around and must have seen 100 different ideas on how a crazy quilt can look. And then one morning during my shower, where I do my best thinking, I thought of the 101st crazy quilt pattern!
Here's the premise. The lady was an artist. Artists are all about color and balance and placement. So I would make a sort of art gallery out of her clothes. I would help to emphasize the "gallery" part by adding a shadowbox element to each of the sections. This would also allow all her different colors, textures, and details to be featured.
I started by going through the clothes. I'd just gotten a new/old dining table to use as a craft table. It was in my garage, so I stood there that night, listening to the chirping of crickets, at peace, sorting the clothes into the different color stacks. I had enough for eight different color panels. That left one empty block. Then I had an idea I hoped would work for the last block.
Since she was an artist, and this was her gallery, I went through her old Facebook posts until I found exactly what I'd hoped to find – her artwork! There's some debate on whether the picture is a self-portrait or Tori Amos. She wasn't exactly distant comparison. It was one of the few pieces I found, and I downloaded it immediately.
Her artwork – printed on fabric.
Now that I knew how many stacks I had and how many blocks I could make, I sent the mother a draft layout. We worked and switched a couple of color sections, and then I got the green light to start cutting.
One of the first ones I did was red. I'd been told she loved red; it was her favorite color. So it seemed natural to begin here. After that, I got better at my blocks and was able to knock out the other seven faster than I anticipated.
A close up of the pink square.
After that, I enlarged the artwork and used two pieces of fabric paper to print it out. It was still smaller than I needed, so I added a red border to make it the same size as the other panels and began piecing the top together.
I added the shadow boxes and was happy to see them coming together. It wasn't long before I was able to send her a picture of the completed top.
I quilted in swirls to balance out the hard edges from the boxes.
We went back and forth on the backing and finally settled on a black, white, and red pattern. From there, I had to complete the last element – but maybe the most important. I had to make the label. That took some thinking because I didn't want it to be a let down. I remembered that the mother was happy I'd chosen to focus on colors because her daughter's memorial service featured a homily from a friend who described her in terms of color. I loved it and was startled because, as said before, I wasn't at the actual service. I was in the nursery.
Keeping that in mind, I asked for a copy of the friend's homily. I used phrases and created a label based on that. Now the lady's sister deals in graphics, so she worked her magic and made my original label look far better.
Her sister and I worked together to create a label based off of her friend's words at the memorial service.
I printed the label on fabric and sewed it to the back corner.
This quilt was a long journey, filled with emotion. But it was also filled with creativity and pushed me to new limits. In many ways, the artist from whom it was made inspired it, and I feel like she had a hand in its making. In the end, it was and remains an honor to have been tasked with making this. It is one of my favorite and proudest works.


What is Crime Scene Cleanup and Trauma Cleanup?
Areas that have been affected by blood and/or bodily fluids as the result of a death, serious injury or medical condition may be in need of remediation services. Companies and technicians who are employed in cleaning these types of bio hazards should possess specific certifications and an in-depth knowledge of worker safety. The cleaning of these areas must be handled in a meticulous manner. "Universal precautions" must be applied to each situation to avoid serious illness or even death. Trauma and crime scene cleaning should never be handled by friends or family members not trained in these areas. In addition to the inherent dangers, this could also take an emotional toll.
What are the costs involved in trauma and crime scene remediation?
Each loss is estimated due to the conditions and severity of the scene. Typical items reflected in the estimate would include labor (certain number of technicians for a certain number of hours,) personal protection equipment costs (tyvek suits, respirators, etc.,) hazardous waste disposal costs, specialty equipment costs (ozone, hydroxyl, specialty vapor etc.,) and possibly one or two ancillary items.
Is this a regulated industry?
Trauma/Crime scene remediation is not a regulated industry as it relates to how a company will charge you. Aside from bio hazardous waste disposal regulations, blood borne pathogen training and OSHA regulations (worker safety,) crime scene companies are not held to a national standard. THIS IS A BUYER BEWARE MESSAGE. With no regulations, some companies will charge exorbitant labor rates, unnecessary fees, profit, overhead and more. Do not make on the spot decisions or sign contracts without getting some advice or comparison estimates. Most contracts will hold you responsible, regardless of what your insurance company or other means of assistance will allow. Once again, get estimates prior to signing any contracts.
No. ITS will come to your home or business to provide you with a straight forward and honest estimate for all jobs free of charge. If you have an estimate from another company, we will even audit the estimate for you to make sure you are being treated fairly. Again, we do not charge individuals for this service.
Is there any financial assistance for trauma and crime scene cleaning?
Yes, in some cases. Quite often, your insurance carrier will pay for some or all of the costs associated with these services. Our staff includes licensed insurance personnel and claims handlers who will investigate and handle this process on your behalf in order that you can focus on other matters during this difficult time. You may also apply to the Crime Victim Board for partial assistance with trauma cleaning. ITS also offers payment plans to our customers to make the process easier, and to assist with time frames associated with estate settlement and the search for alternate means of financial assistance. We also accept all major credit cards.
Who decides what happens to my property?
Trauma and crime scene cleaning companies work for you. The final decision relevant to your personal property is ultimately up to you. We will make recommendations about the disposal of affected property, but only you will understand the emotional and sentimental value of items at the scene. Speak to the project manager on the scene and let them know about any items that you want to retain.
The length of a trauma remediation job will always vary depending on the severity and nature of the loss, but most remediation work will be completed within one day.
Are there services that can help me cope with my loss?
Please view our helpful Video to learn more about what you can expect when you contact Island Trauma Services for Biohazard Trauma Remediation.
ITS strives to help you find and make contact with these groups and specialists, whether you use our services or not. Our support page offers links to some of these groups and counselors, or you may complete the information request form on our contact page, and we will forward information to you. We will make every effort to put you in contact with the resources you need to help you cope with your loss.


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Sean Azzopardi reflects on life in new title, "50"
By John Freeman on April 6, 2017 • ( 1 )
Comic creator and Broken Frontier contributor Sean Azzopardi has just released 50, the follow up to Tracks, which was released in 2005. Sean, whose credits also include another autobiographical comic, Rain on Glass, is probably best known for his psychological horror work with Douglas Noble and tangential super-hero action in Necessary Monsters with Daniel Merlin Goodbrey.
A founding member of the London Underground Comics collective, organiser of the Crouch End Cartoon Art Festival (CECAF), Sean is also working on The Voice of the Hall, a graphic novel on the history of Hornsey Town Hall for which he was awarded a British Arts Council grant last year. He continues to work as an illustrator, with credits that include work for Metro newspaper and Architectural Review.
The new book collects to gather a number of short stories that never reached completion, reformed into completely re-written package. The main section is about the death of Sean's father.
"It's been a long process," Sean tells us of creating 50. "The original idea was to make a comic that celebrated me reaching 50, and to have a launch party to celebrate.
"That never happened and I have successfully drifted into April, so it's a comic to celebrate turning 50 (it was actually in January). So I called it 50 and made it 50 pages long!"
• You can buy 50 from BigCartel, along with Sean's other books
• In the latest of Broken Frontier 'Small Press Inside Look' creator commentaries, Sean offers some insights into the creative process behind 50…
John Freeman
The founder of downthetubes, John works as a comics editor, writer, as Creative Consultant on the Dan Dare audio adventures for B7 Media, and on promotional work for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. Working in British comics publishing for over 30 years, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine, Star Trek Magazine and Babylon 5 Magazine. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics. He has also edited several comic collections, including volumes of "Charley's War and "Dan Dare". He's the writer of "Crucible", a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz, published on Tapastic; and "Death Duty" and "Skow Dogs" with Dave Hailwood for digital comic 100% Biodegradable.
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I've Got a cute little Gift box cutting file for you this week! The box would be great for those little mini eggs or any other small treat or gift.
The box is 6cm square and will fit A4 or Letter size Cardstock. You can resize it a little larger – it should still fit on 12 inch square cardstock but remember to keep everything grouped together if resizing. I lined the box with a contrast colour card.
The bunnies are made from the font "wmanimals2". It includes a great variety of animal shapes. I used the uppercase letter "z" and duplicated it as a mirror image to make the second bunny. This is a variation on the cat box I shared last year – I substituted rabbits and hearts for the cat this time round.
Here's The Bunnies & Heart Box Silhouette Studio Cutting File.
Such a sweet box! It's a delight to see it cut with different colours too. What a different look – but one just as wonderful as the other. Love the little photo-bombing chicks too!!
A very sweet box… Thanks for sharing it with us! Love the bunnies and/or the cats—both very cute!
Also just a quick question. Where did you get the little chicks?! I Saw those ones online somewhere and can not find them anywhere!
Hi Bianca, Thanks for commenting.
Re the chicks -I'm in Australia – I got mine at a local Craft shop called Spotlight.
Not sure where you're located but if you google "chenille Easter Chicks" you'll find some and hopefully they'll be some stockists near you.
Loved the cat box and now it is wonderful to have the bunny box too. They are so cute. Thank you so much for sharing it.
Thanks you very much for your free patterns. I live on Reunion Island and the patterns are expansives. My English is approximate , I am french. Bye.
Thanks for taking the time to comment Juliette. I'm so glad you find the patterns useful.


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Located on the ground floor of a quaint block leading onto lush common garden area, this sizeable 2 bedroom apartment is quietly located to maintain the serenity of its location and capitalise on the private area it occupies. This apartment is located as part of impeccably maintained common grounds and is at the back of the block with it's interiors offering a large welcoming space and easy care living throughout.
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We list all outdoor antennas that are certified to work in yellow and more distant areas. If you are interested in a yellow zone only, most of the antennas are overkill for you as they are designed to work in a far worse conditions. Check out the 'area' column in the table below to see the most distant zone the antenna is certified to work in.
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Rain and Warmth Trigger Intense Melting in Greenland
TOPICS:Climate ChangeEarth ObservatoryGreenlandNASAWeather
By Kathryn Hansen, NASA Earth Observatory August 22, 2021
The island's vast ice sheet underwent multiple bouts of widespread melting this summer, exacerbated in August 2021 by rain.
The Greenland Ice Sheet underwent two bouts of intense melting in July 2021, and forecasts called for even more to follow. They were right. Summer heat spurred another major melt event on August 14–15, 2021, but this time, the melting was exacerbated by rainfall.
Every year from around May to early September, melting takes place across the vast sheet of ice that covers Greenland. Besides contributing directly to sea level rise, meltwater can flow to the base of the ice sheet via crevasses and moulins, accelerating the flow of ice toward the ocean.
Within a melting season there can be the occasional "melt event"—brief periods with more melting and runoff than during 'typical' summer days. The seventh-largest melt event on record (by area) occurred on July 28, when melting covered about 881,000 square kilometers (340,000 square miles) of the ice sheet, according to data from the National Snow and Ice Data Center. Melting on August 14—the peak of the unusual late-summer event—was slightly smaller, covering about 872,000 square kilometers.
According to Lauren Andrews, a glaciologist with NASA's Global Modeling and Assimilation Office, the pattern of melting differed for each event. "While the late-July melt event was extensive in northern Greenland, the August event was focused in southern Greenland," she said.
The island's southern tip was visible amid clouds on August 15, 2021, when the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA's Aqua satellite acquired this image (above) of part of the melt area. The image is false color to better differentiate between areas of clouds (white), snow (cyan), bare ice (blue), and meltwater or slushy ice (darker blue). Ocean water appears the darkest blue, almost black. For comparison, a second image shows the area on August 12, prior to the melt event.
Notice that by August 15, the area of bare ice extends farther inland. "The snow line has retreated, exposing more of the darker, underlying ice," Andrews said. "This retreat is most obvious when we look closely at the outlet glaciers and was likely driven by the large melt event on August 14–15."
Andrews also noted that the melting extended well inland toward the interior of the ice sheet and reached Summit Station—National Science Foundation's research station located near the top of the ice sheet, nearly two miles above sea level.
The melting was provoked by warm air that moved over Greenland and produced unusually high temperatures. The map above shows the short-term warm up over Greenland; it depicts how much the air temperature on August 14, 2021, was above or below temperatures from the week before (averaged from August 5 to 11, 2021). The map was derived from the Goddard Earth Observing System (GEOS) model and represents air temperatures at 2 meters (about 6-7 feet) above the ground. Modeled data, which uses mathematical equations that represent physical processes, offer a broad, estimated view of a region where ground-based weather stations are sparse.
Widespread rainfall in southern Greenland contributed to the melting. Rain was even observed by National Science Foundation personnel at Summit Station on August 14, 2021—the first time since the start of field observations there in the late 1980s, according to Von Walden of the Summit Station Science Coordination Office and Washington State University.
Warm air temperatures alone, not rain, caused previous major melt events at Summit Station, including those in 2012 and 2019, according to Christopher Shuman, a University of Maryland, Baltimore County, glaciologist based at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center. Studies have shown that the amount of melting across Greenland caused by rain has increased over the recent past, in both summer and winter.
Large melt events including those of the 2021 season are generally short-lived and contribute a relatively small amount to the total melting that occurs across a season. But they can have a lasting effect on the ice sheet. Melting can trigger processes that cause the ice surface to darken and modify the underlying snow and firn, which can exacerbate future melting and runoff, even under normal atmospheric conditions.
"During melt events, these processes can occur over parts of the ice sheet that do not typically experience melt, making the impact more widespread," Andrews said. "Positive feedbacks like these are starting to take their toll."
NASA Earth Observatory images by Lauren Dauphin, using MODIS data from NASA EOSDIS LANCE and GIBS/Worldview and GEOS-5 data from the Global Modeling and Assimilation Office at NASA GSFC.
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4 Comments on "Rain and Warmth Trigger Intense Melting in Greenland"
Clyde Spencer | August 22, 2021 at 7:12 am | Reply
"… meltwater can flow to the base of the ice sheet via crevasses and moulins, accelerating the flow of ice toward the ocean."
However, the thicker the ice, the less probable it is that meltwater will reach the base. Ice flows plastically when it is more than about 50 m thick, meaning that it will tend to close any open channels. Thus, it is only at the margins of an ice sheet that one can expect much water unless the local geothermal gradient is high enough to melt ice at the base.
Daniel Ferra | August 23, 2021 at 7:15 am | Reply
WHEN WILL GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA COLLAPSE ?
20 FEET OF SEA LEVEL RISE ON GREENLAND AND 200 FEET OF SEA LEVEL RISE ON ANTARCTICA MELTING CALVING GETTING READY TO COLLAPSE TODAY TONIGHT TOMORROW WITH IN 24 – 36 MONTHS ?
GREENLAND MELTED MORE IN JULY THAN ITS YEARLY AVERAGE MELT
LAST TIME PART'S PER MILLION OF CARBON WAS OVER 410PPM
SEA LEVEL WAS 130 FEET HIGHER THAN RIGHT NOW
CARBON IS AT 419PPM AND CLIMBING
SINCE 2005 GLOBAL WARMING FEEDBACK LOOPS SEEPING SPEWING AN VENTING IN THE ARCTIC FROM
PERMAFROST METHANE HYDRATES PINGOES MANTLE METHANE FROM ISOSTATIC REBOUNDING GETTING READY TO EXPLODE
MAYBE BEFORE GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA COLLAPSE
ALL THIS METHANE NATURAL GAS FORMING LOBES THAT CONNECT TO OTHER LOBES PLUS THE 40 – 50 BILLION TOXIC TONS OF GREENHOUSE GASES EMITTED ANNUALLY LOBES NOW FORMING HEAT DOMES
We WAKE UP TODAY 20F – 60F. HOTTER THAN NORMAL AND GETTING HOTTER
WE WAKE UP TOMORROW 60F – 100F. HOTTER THAN NORMAL AND GETTING HOTTER
CARBON HAS A 30 – 50 YEAR LAG TIME BEFORE MOLECULE REACHES IT'S FULL POTENTIAL IN HOLDING HEAT MASS
METHANE NATURAL GAS HAS A 10 YEAR LAG TIME BEFORE MOLECULE REACHES IT'S FULL POTENTIAL IN HOLDING HEAT MASS
METHANE NATURAL GAS MOLECULE IS 130 TIMES HOTTER THAN A CARBON MOLECULE
ALL THAT ICE AN SNOW IS HEAVY COMING OFF OF GREENLAND AND ANTARCTICA SINKING THE OCEAN FLOORS CAUSING PRESSURE ON THE THERMAL CONVECTION BELT BETWEEN THE CRUST AND THE MANTLE
ALL THIS STRESS IS RELIEVED BY MAGMA LAVA ERUPTIONS AND PLATE TECTONICS MOVEMENTS EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOES
THERE IS STILL OVER 219 FEET OF ICE AND SNOW TO SINK TO THE OCEAN FLOORS
ADD 2C. METHANE NATURAL GAS
ADD 2C. NITROUS OXIDE
ADD 2C. WATER VAPOUR
ADD 2C. CARBON. =. 8C. GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RISE SINCE THE 1700s
NOT IPPC ONLY 2C. GLOBAL TEMPERATURE RISE
WILL GREENLAND COLLAPSE IN A WINTER RAIN BOMB ?
444 NUCLEAR REACTORS
450 NUCLEAR FACILITIES
1,300 NUCLEAR FUEL ROD POOLS
2,000 NUCLEAR DETONATIONS
250,000 TOXIC TONS OF RADIATED NUCLEAR WASTE
NAKASAKI HEROSHIMA FUKUSHIMA
IT IS NOT THE WAY THEY TOLD us WHEN we WHERE GROWING UP
ANTARCTICA FEEDBACK LOOPS STARTING TO RELEASE METHANE NATURAL GAS
WILL ANTARCTICA COLLAPSE BEFORE GREENLAND ?
US FEDERAL RESERVE BANK NUCLEAR FOSSIL FUEL EXECUTIVE EXTINCTION EXECUTION LIEING AND DENYING DEADLY GLOBAL WARMING
Paul Marshall | August 24, 2021 at 1:23 am | Reply
The ice sheet also saw record gains for August after the July loss but no body is questioning that.
Steve Young | August 28, 2021 at 9:52 am | Reply
I would say the reason for it being so warm is the 13 active volcanoes all ove this country that was keeping everything warm


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Catharine Macfarlane (1877–1969) fue una obstreta y ginecóloga americana que fundó uno de los primeros centros de exploración para cáncer de útero en Estados Unidos. Fue la primera mujer del Colegio de Médicos de Filadefia y la primera mujer presidente de la Sociedad Obstetricia de Filadelfia.

Educación
Catherine Macfarlane ingresó en la Universidad de Filadelfia en 1893 y obtuvo su carrera en Ciencias de la Biología en 1895. En 1898 obtuvo su grado médico en la Facultad de Medicina de Mujeres de Pensilvania. En 1990, al final de su educación médica, Macfarlane hizo prácticas en el Hospital de Mujeres de Filadelfia.

Carrera médica
Durante sus prácticas en el Hospital de Mujeres de Filadelfia, Macfarlane tuvo la posición de instructora en obstetricias en la Facultad de Medicina de Mujeres de Pensilvania. Empezó una práctica privada en 1900 y continuó hasta 1903, tiempo en el que aceptó una posición como instructora de ginecología en la Facultad de Medicina de Mujeres de Pensilvania. En su último año de práctica privada, se convirtió en la primera practicante en utilizar radiación en el tratamiento del cáncer. Después de aceptar la posición de instructora en ginecología en la Facultad de Medicina de Mujeres de Pensilvania., Macfarlane hizo una carrera en estudios en urología, obstetricia, ginecología, y radiología entre 1903 y 1905. En 1908, fue nombrada como jefa de ginecología en el Hospital de Mujeres de Filadelfia y en 1913 fue admitida en el Colegio de Cirujanos Americanos. En 1922, Macfarlane fue nombrada profesora de ginecología en la Facultad de Medicina de Mujeres de Pensilvania. Ese mismo año, asistió a la primera Conferencia Estatal de Pensilvania sobre Control de Natalidad al lado de Margaret Sanger para defender los derechos de las mujeres al voto y obtener control de natalidad. Dos años más tarde en 1924, Catherine Macfarlane fue nombrada Jefa de Obstetricias y Ginecología en el Hospital General de Filadelfia y aceptó la posición como profesora en investigación de ginecología en la Facultad de Medicina de Mujeres de Pensilvania en la cual estuvo trabajando hasta su muerte. En 1938, Macfarlane fue cofundadora del Proyecto de Investigación sobre el Control del Cáncer en la Facultad de Medicina de Mujeres de Filadelfia. Ese mismo año, recibió una beca del Comité Clínico de Investigación de la Asociación Médica Americana para establecer una investigación sobre el cáncer y prevención clínica además de abrir el primer programa de exploración de cáncer de útero en Estados Unidos. En 1962, casi al final de su carrera, Macfarlane empezó una investigación en autoexámenes de pecho con la División de Filadelfia de la Sociedad de Cáncer Americana.

Legado y honores
En 1936, Macfarlane fue nombrada jefa de la Asociación Nacional de Mujeres Médicas, que más tarde fue renombrada como la Asociación de Mujeres Médicas Americanas. Un año más tarde, en 1937, obtuvo la posición de Vicepresidente de la Asociación Internacional de Mujeres Médicas la cual estuvo a cargo hasta 1947. Ese mismo año, en 1947, tuvo un cargo de cinco años como presidente del Comité de Cáncer de la Sociedad Médica de Filadelfia. Macfarlane ejerció como presidente de Obstetricias de la Sociedad de Filadelfia de 1943 a 1944.

En 1948 Macfarlane fue la primera mujer premiada con el Premio Strittmatter. En 1949 fue premiada con el Premio Gimbel por servicio humanitario. En 1951, Macfarlane fue premiada conjuntamente con el Premio Lasker en Investigación Clínica de Medicina por sus aplicaciones en medicina preventiva para el control de cáncer. En 1953, Macfarlane obtuvo el premio annual Mary Silberman por su trabajo en la prevención del cáncer.

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Enlaces externos

Ginecólogos de Estados Unidos
Obstetras de Estados Unidos
Médicas de Estados Unidos
Nacidos en Filadelfia

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Too Black to Wear Whites
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Too Black to Wear Whites is the compelling story of Krom Hendricks, the first black South African sporting hero. One of the world's best fast bowlers, he was barred by Cecil Rhodes from playing for his country on grounds of race. In challenging the establishment, Hendricks became the central figure in the evolution of sports segregation.
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A 27-year-old Woodstock man faces two counts of careless driving causing death in connection to a crash that killed a senior couple married nearly 50 years.
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Cleaning Up The Hall of Fame: Rizzuto vs. Trammell
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In this new series, we are going to clean up The Hall, the Hall of Fame, that is. According to the Hall of Fame's official website, about 1% of all players who have ever worn a Major League Baseball uniform have been inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
That number seems about right to me.
But it raises a question. How big and crowded should The Hall be allowed to become? Currently, there are 295 plaques (which includes managers, umpires, etc.) in the Hall of Fame Plaque Gallery. Over time, of course, this number will continue to grow, and although it is not growing quickly, it is possible to foresee a day when the Plaque Gallery is as crowded as the checkout line at Target on Black Friday.
I have no particular number in mind as to what constitutes "enough" plaques in the Plaque Gallery. But could The Hall physically hold, for example, 400 plaques? How about 500? Assuming baseball continues to hold any interest for the general public one century hence, will anyone in the year 2112 make the pilgrimage to Cooperstown to stand in front of Orlando Cepeda's plaque and have any idea who he was? Should that matter?
First of all, we have to stop pretending that every player who was considered a superstar in his time cannot be reevaluated in light of all that has happened in the several decades since he last put on a pair of spikes. The passage of time offers a perspective not available to that particular player's contemporaries.
Certain players who appeared to be superstars in the first half of the twentieth century now appear, given modern standards of objective analysis, to have been merely very good ball players who left a strong emotional imprint on the judgments of peers (and voters) of decades past.
What I'm proposing, then, is to gradually improve the quality of the players in the Hall of Fame, one player at a time. One player out; another (arguably better) player in.
All of which brings us to Phil Rizzuto.
Phil Rizzuto was an important part of several New York Yankees championship teams in the 1940's and early '50's. His defensive skills made the Yankees pitchers better. But was his defense good enough to merit Hall of Fame selection?
In a word, no. Rizzuto's dWAR for his career, (interrupted for three years by W.W.II) was 11.0, the same as Frank White, and slightly higher than Willie Randolph. For a relatively weak-hitting infielder, his defense needs to be world-class — Ozzi Smith-good — to justify selection to The Hall of Fame. Rizzuto doesn't meet that test.
Rizzuto's career offensive numbers are unimpressive. He posted a career triple slash line of .273 / .351 / .355. Rizzuto's career OPS+ of 93 is about the same as Edgar Renteria's career mark of 94.
Rizzuto hit just 38 home runs in his career, scored only 877 runs, stole 149 bases and amassed just 339 extra base hits in his entire career. He did, however, lead his league in sacrifice bunts four times.
Rizzuto enjoyed one fantastic year when he won the A.L. MVP award at age 32 in 1950. His WAR of 7.1 led the league. He reached a career high 271 total bases, scored 125 runs and batted .324. Rizzuto also produced 200 hits, drew a career high 92 walks, and slammed 36 doubles.
Although he was a five-time All Star, much of his Hall of Fame resume revolves around this one season. But lots of players have had one great season. It is not often the case, however, that they go on to gain enshrinement in the Hall of Fame.
Rizzuto was the David Eckstein of his era, but on a much bigger stage, and with a more formidable P.R. machine behind him.
Clearly, Phil Rizzuto does not belong in The Hall.
The player whom I would replace him with is former Detroit Tigers shortstop Alan Trammell. Whereas Rizzuto posted a career WAR of 41.8, Trammell easily outclasses him with a mark of 66.9. By comparison, HOF'ers Eddie Murray, PeeWee Reese, Gary Carter and Roberto Alomar all produced lower career WAR than Trammell.
Trammell also posted a better career OPS+ of 110 to Rizzuto's 93.
A much better power hitter, Trammell slugged 185 home runs in his career. He also produced 652 extra base hits, nearly twice as many as Rizzuto's 339. Trammell's triple slash line of .285 / .352 / .415 is also better than Rizzuto's, as is his .767 OPS.
Trammell compiled 2,365 hits, 1,231 runs scored, and 1,003 RBI. Each of these numbers are significantly higher than what Rizzuto produced. And even accounting for the three years that Rizzuto missed while in the service, it is still unlikely that the would have matched Trammell's totals in any of those categories.
Defensively, Trammell was no slouch, either. He won four Gold Gloves, and finished his career with a dWAR of 7.5, not as good as Rizzuto's, but not significantly worse, either.
Trammell finished second in A.L. MVP voting in 1987. He won three Silver Sluggers as the best hitter at his position. He also made six All Star Teams.
Clearly, Trammell was the better shortstop. Removing Rizzuto from The Hall and replacing him with Alan Trammell would make The Hall incrementally better, but you have to start somewhere.
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20 thoughts on "Cleaning Up The Hall of Fame: Rizzuto vs. Trammell"
peter on December 17, 2015 at 6:14 PM said:
This article is so ON POINT. I visited Cooperstown last year and asked the people on duty there if they had others asking about this controversy. One man told me I was the first one to question Rizzuto -in and Trammell -out THAT AFTERNOON. Why is Trammell still OUT? – it is ridiculous…..the committee needs to get their heads out of #$$!$%$% and put him in.
William Miller on December 17, 2015 at 7:11 PM said:
Thank you, Peter. While there's obviously no chance of removing Rizzuto from The Hall (and, at this point, there's not much point in doing so), there really is no good reason why Trammell shouldn't be in there as well.
I haven't been to Cooperstown in years, but I'd still like to get back up there someday.
Thanks for reading, and take care,
peter on October 10, 2015 at 12:31 AM said:
I am 100% in agreement – I have been having this discussion over the years with anyone who would listen to me……it is a travesty…rizzuto was pedestrian player, at best and in today's game, would not even make a roster…..Trammell needs to be added now..he is far more deserving
William Miller on October 10, 2015 at 3:16 AM said:
Players from the 1980's have generally been overlooked as a group. Instead, we will have another pointless attempt by yet another old-timer's committee to induct a player from the pre-integration years, a group that has been picked over again and again. Trammell was very underrated (as was his teammate, Lou Whitaker), but Rizzuto got to play on several championship teams, and that's made all the difference.
ballcaps on July 15, 2012 at 12:27 PM said:
Provocative post, Bill. I love this kind of stuff. I think you have more to fear from rabid Yankees fans than you do from ghosts. I'm surprised none of them tore into you here for suggesting that Scooter get the boot.
William Miller on July 15, 2012 at 9:00 PM said:
Hi Daniel, Glad you enjoyed it. Yeah, I'm still waiting for a Yankees fan to pounce on this one.
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William Miller on June 30, 2012 at 3:05 PM said:
Hi, Thanks for mentioning my article in your post. I appreciate it.
peter on March 28, 2012 at 11:08 PM said:
absolutely – Rizzuto made it because he was a Yankee and Trammell didn't becuase he was a Tiger….Phil baby rode th4 coattails of REAL HOFers…Trammell was the best player on his team for many years….. Rizzuto should be O-U-T and Trammell should be I-N !!!!!!!!!
Adam Darowski on December 27, 2011 at 5:11 PM said:
My personal Hall of Fame project bumped Rizzuto and added Trammell, but the first SS I'd go after is Rabbit Maranville. Maranville's name will come up in a few years as he is essentially the first version of Omar Vizquel.
You're right about Maranville. More than a few of the old-timers in The Hall are highly questionable choices, at best.
It's all good on December 17, 2011 at 4:04 AM said:
I like this idea of cleaning out the HOF. If it were up to me I would make it a two for one deal. Joe Tinker AND Rizzuto for Trammell or why not throw in the entire double play combo of Tinker to Evers to Chance (I never understood the popularity of that poem). We need to clear those HOF walls off for the all time hit leader, all time homerun champ and proabably the greatest pitcher from all time (Clemens). Oh yeah, I guess there will still be room. Oh well we always have Ron Santo!
Hi Dan, Thanks for jumping on board! Yup, there are some very questionable characters in The Hall. But I don't see Rose, Bonds and Clemens getting in for some time (yes, I know you were being ironic.) But we may have to work backwards, and remove Jim Rice out of The Hall before we start doing anything else.
Thanks for reading, man, and have a great Christmas!
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verdun2 on November 23, 2011 at 7:01 PM said:
Frankly, I don't like the idea of taking someone out of the HoF once they're in (even someone like OJ Simpson). Seems like you and your family shouldn't have to worry about lobbying every year to assure you aren't dropped once you are honored.
Having said all that, I agree Trammell is a much better choice than Rizzuto.
William Miller on November 23, 2011 at 8:21 PM said:
I see your point. But I don't expect this blog will have much influence on The Hall anyway. Just hypothetical arguments meant to provoke some discussion. Also, most of the guys I'd pull out are dead already, so they probably won't care much, although if I am visited by the Ghost of HOF'ers Past, I'll have to eat my words.
Have a great Thanksgiving, and thanks for reading, Bill
Vince V. on November 22, 2011 at 10:40 PM said:
Yes, life is more who you know. Thanks for linking to my blog. I had to update the link I had for you but you're on the blogroll.
Vince V. on November 22, 2011 at 1:14 AM said:
You're argument here is rather interesting. Even today there are a number of names in the HOF many fans, including myself, don't know. What if Rizzuto wasn't a Yankee broadcaster? Would his popularity have been as great?
William Miller on November 22, 2011 at 1:55 AM said:
Hi Vince, I'm sure all those years in the Yankee broadcast booth helped a lot with the Old Timers Committee voters. And a positive word from Ted Williams goes along way, too. But The Hall has long been an insider boys club, where connections make all the difference. Much like real life, I suppose.
BTW, I added you to my blog roll. Thanks for signing up, Bill


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Joyce Lee Martin Williams, 78, of 107 Willow Road, Ringgold, VA, died on Sunday, August 29, 2021 at Riverside Health and Rehabilitation Center after being in declining health for the last year. Ms. Williams was born in Danville, Virginia on September 13, 1942, a daughter of the late Henry Clyde Martin and Nora Hazel Dunnaway Martin. She spent all of her life in the Danville and Pittsylvania County areas where she worked in production at Miller for 28 years until she retired in 2007. Ms. Williams had a heart of gold, who was a loving and caring person, but most of all she was Elvis Presley's number one fan since she was thirteen years old. In addition to her parents she was predeceased by her son, Kevin Anderson. She was a wonderful mother who leaves behind her daughters, Michelle Scott of the residence, Kimberly Miller of Ringgold, VA; and son, Michael Presley Williams and his wife, Leigh-Anna Williams of Dry Fork, VA. Her grandchildren that survive her are Brandi Patterson, Bradlee Miller, Isaac Walker, Trinity Scott, Skylar Scott, Ryker Bowen, Haven Scott, Jace Hackler and Sara Bradley; and her great grandchildren, Trevor, Landon, Avery and Riley. They will all truly miss their "Mema". Funeral services will be conducted on Friday, September 3, 2021 at 1:00 PM at the Wrenn-Yeatts North Main Chapel with the Reverend Kenneth Hammock officiating. Interment will follow the service in Floral Hills Memory Gardens. The family will receive friends prior to the service from 12:00 PM to 1:00 PM at the funeral home and at other times they will be at the residence, 107 Willow Road, Ringgold, VA 24586. Memorial donations can be made to the Alzheimer's Association of Danville/ Pittsylvania County at 308 Craighead Street, Suite 104 Danville, VA 24541. Wrenn-Yeatts North Main Chapel is respectfully serving the Williams family.
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HONOLULU – Hawaiian Airlines today celebrated the launch of its non-stop service between Haneda and Kona International Airports, bringing flights from Japan back to the Island of Hawai'i for the first time since 2010.
Hawaiian, Hawai'i's flagship carrier, invited more than 100 supporters of its application for the new service to welcome HA Flight 852, which landed in Kona shortly after noon. The crowd, including Gov. David Ige, U.S. Sen. Mazie Hirono and Hawai'i Island Mayor Harry Kim, gathered for a light lunch outside of the newly established federal inspection facility (FIS) at Kona airport just prior to the flight's arrival.
Hawaiian's triweekly service between Haneda in Tokyo and Kona is the latest route in the airline's fast-growing international network and adds to its robust presence in Japan. It follows the launch in July of daily service between Narita and Honolulu, and further complements Hawaiian's flights from Haneda, Osaka and Sapporo to Honolulu.
Prior to departing Haneda, guests aboard today's inaugural flight were treated to a special gate-side ceremony featuring Hawaiian music and hula, refreshments, a traditional Hawaiian blessing and the giving of fresh flower lei. Please click here to watch a video of the day's festivities in Kona.
The arrival of HA852 culminates a months-long process to return flights from Japan to Kona. In April, Hawaiian applied to the U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) to offer three times weekly service between Haneda and Kona, along with a second frequency four times weekly between Honolulu International Airport and Haneda. Hawaiian made the case that flights between Hawai'i and Japan are the most traveled and most beneficial to the U.S. economy, and noted the Haneda-Kona service would open up Hawai'i's largest unserved international market.
The U.S. DOT granted Hawaiian's request in May, and earlier this month the U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced the re-establishment of a FIS at Kona airport to process guests arriving on Hawaiian's flights.
Hawaiian will operate its new Haneda-Kona and Haneda-Honolulu services with wide-body Airbus A330-200 aircraft. The fleet is currently being retrofitted to include 18 lie-flat seats in the Premium Cabin, 68 Extra Comfort seats and 192 seats in the main cabin. From the moment guests arrive, they will enjoy Hawaiian's signature Mea Ho'okipa (translation: I am host) onboard service, long-celebrated for its warm and friendly celebration of the culture, people, and Aloha Spirit of the Hawaiian Islands.
Hawaiian, Hawai'i's largest and longest serving carrier, was among the first three U.S. airlines granted authority to operate at Tokyo's Haneda airport in 2010. For the last six years Hawaiian has transported over half a million passengers out of Haneda – more travelers than any other U.S. carrier – and 2.2 million passengers between Japan and Hawaii. Its service to Honolulu alone has added at least $941 million to the U.S. gross domestic product, generated $564 million in direct spending and led to the creation of 2,337 new jobs.
It is estimated the new triweekly Haneda-Kona service will spur $56 million in annual visitor spending. Hawaiian has also hired 34 employees in Kona associated with the new flight operation.
In commemoration of the new route, Hawaiian is inviting Japanese travelers to learn about the Island of Hawai'i by visiting www.Facebook.com/HawaiianAirlinesJapan and entering a drawing for a chance to win two roundtrip tickets for two between Haneda and Kona. The promotion ends Jan. 18.
More information about the new Haneda-Kona flight is available at Hawaiian's Japanese-language website www.HawaiianAirlines.co.jp, or by contacting the airline's Tokyo office at 0570-018-011 or preferred accredited travel agency. In the U.S., information can be found at www.HawaiianAirlines.com, or by calling Hawaiian's reservations center toll-free at 1-800-367-5320.


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Hurricane Forecasts Hurricane Message Board Hurricane and Tropical Storm Archives 2014 Eastern / Central Pacific Season Archives
Iselle
Tropical cyclone archives of the 2014 eastern and central Pacific hurricane season
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Post by Caribbean Traveler » Mon Aug 04, 2014 7:04 am
Monday Morning Update
Iselle a major hurricane
Iselle is a category 3 hurricane well ESE of Hawaii. It will likely affect the Hawaii Islands in a much weaker state late Thursday and Friday.
As of 2 AM PDT / 5 AM EDT Bertha was centered at 16.0 N / 135.6 W or about 1305 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii. It was moving west at about 9 mph. Top sustained winds are estimated at 125 mph. Pressure was estimated at 958 mb.
Iselle will move WNW and approach the Big Island of Hawaii by late Thursday. It is likely not going to be a hurricane by then as hurricanes only approach from the south - not east. The main threat will be from increasing heavy showers, large swell on east facing beaches and winds to tropical storm force - especially over the mountains.
Tropicast: Pacific IR Satellite
Re: Iselle
Monday Evening Update
Iselle now a cat 4 hurricane
As of 2 PM PDT / 5 PM EDT Iselle was centered at 16.1 N / 137.4 W or about 1190 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii. It was moving west at about 10 mph. Top sustained winds are estimated at 140 mph. Pressure was estimated at 947 mb.
Iselle will move WNW and approach the Big Island of Hawaii by Thursday. It is likely not going to be a hurricane by then as hurricanes only approach from the south - not east. The main threat will be from increasing heavy showers, large swell on east facing beaches and winds to tropical storm force - especially over the mountains.
Tropicast: Pacific Visible Satellite
Iselle still a major hurricane
Iselle has weakened some overnight, but still looks impressive on satellite imagery. It will gradually move over cooler water the next few days allowing it to weaken to a tropical storm before affecting the Hawaiian islands.
As of 2 AM PDT / 5 AM EDT Iselle was centered at 15.9 N / 138.6 W or about 1115 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii. It was moving west at about 8 mph. Top sustained winds are estimated at 125 mph. Pressure was estimated at 955 mb.
Iselle weakening
Iselle is gradually weakening as it approaches the Big Island of Hawaii. It is now a category 1 hurricane as cooler water temperatures drain the energy from the system. The Big Island will see increasing east swell later today into tomorrow.
As of 2 AM PDT / 5 AM EDT Iselle was centered at 16.9 N / 144.1 W or about 745 miles east of Hilo, Hawaii. It was moving west at about 13 mph. Top sustained winds are estimated at 90 mph. Pressure was estimated at 979 mb.
Iselle approaching the Big Island
Iselle is now forecast to be a hurricane on the Big Island. I personally think that it will be a tropical storm with gusts to hurricane force possible over the high volcanoes. Most areas will see tropical storm force winds. A recent recon measured winds just over hurricane force (74 mph), so I don't think the winds are as strong as were in the official advisory prepared earlier.
As of 2 AM PDT / 5 AM EDT Iselle was centered at 18.1 N / 149.1 W or about 405 miles ESE of Hilo, Hawaii. It was moving WNW at about 18 mph. Top sustained winds are estimated at 80 mph (90 mph CPHC). Pressure was estimated at 986 mb.
Iselle will move over the Big Island late today. The main threat will be from increasing heavy showers, large swell on east facing beaches and winds to tropical storm force with possibly hurricane force over the high volcanoes.
Satellite imagery shows that Iselle is weakening. The cloud tops are warming around the broken eyewall. It will not arrive at the Big Island as a hurricane IMO. It is possible the CPHC will keep it as a minimal hurricane even though the latest recon shows it now below hurricane strength. Some gusts to hurricane force are still possible high up on the slopes of the volcanoes which are nearly 14,000' high. Resort areas will see rain squalls with tropical storm force winds.
As of 8 AM HST / 2 PM EDT Iselle was centered at 18.6 N / 151.4 W or about 255 miles ESE of Hilo, Hawaii. It was moving WNW at about 17 mph. Top sustained winds are estimated at 70 mph (80 mph CPHC). Pressure was estimated at 990 mb (latest recon).
Iselle will move over the Big Island late today. The main threat will be from increasing heavy showers, large swell on east facing beaches and winds to tropical storm force with possibly hurricane force gusts over the high volcanoes.
Iselle east of Big Island
CPHC is still calling Iselle a hurricane. I simply don't believe this is accurate. The latest recon found a 992 MB pressure, 47 kt surface wind and a 72 kt flight level wind at 700 MB - approximately 10,000 ft aloft. Satellite representation of the structure does not support hurricane strength. Some gust will very likely be to hurricane strength over the high mountain peaks which rise to almost 14 thousand feet. Most resort locations will see tropical storm force winds and rain squalls.
As of 2 PM HST / 8 PM EDT Iselle was centered at 18.9 N / 152.9 W or about 150 miles ESE of Hilo, Hawaii. It was moving WNW at about 17 mph. Top sustained winds are estimated at 65 mph (80 mph CPHC). Pressure was estimated at 992 mb (latest recon).
Iselle making landfall on the Big Island
CPHC finally downgraded to tropical storm just before landfall. The highest wind gust at the coastal towns so far has been 44 mph at Hilo. It's possible that winds have been stronger over the more rural areas SE of the Big Island. Winds will diminish later today as Iselle interacts with the very high terrain of the Big Island disrupting its circualtion.
As of 11 PM HST / 5 AM EDT Iselle was centered at 19.0 N / 155.1 W or about 45 south of Hilo, Hawaii. It was moving west at about 7 mph. Top sustained winds are estimated at 60. Pressure was estimated at 1001 MB.
Iselle will continue south of the Islands later today. The main threat will be from heavy showers and winds to tropical storm force with possibly hurricane force gusts over the high volcanoes.
Tropicast: Hawaii Radar eastern Big Island
Friday Evening Update
Iselle much weaker south of Oahu
Visible satellite shows that Iselle's circulation has been greatly disrupted by the mountains on the Big Island. The strongest wind gust at a major town was 47 mph at Kahului. Winds have diminished across the Islands.
As of 11 AM HST / 5 PM EDT Iselle was centered at 19.5 N / 158.0 W or about 125 south of Honolulu, Hawaii. It was moving west at about 15 mph. Top sustained winds are estimated at 40 (50 mph CPHC). Pressure was estimated at 1009 MB.
Iselle will continue moving west, south of the Islands and weaken to an extratropical depression soon.
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