Zeboyd Games are used to making retro style RPGs with Breath of Death VII and Cthulu Saves the World. Now, their latest game – funded via Kickstarter – seems to be lovingly inspired by Chrono Trigger and Phantasy Star. The gameplay lets it stand amongst many other great RPGs. However, some issues might pull it down to games that merely imitate older graphical styles and not their engaging gameplay.
The game features API super-spy Alyssa L'Salle. The "Agency of Peace and Intelligence" sends her off on a mission to deal with a terrorist group Astrea, and matters quickly escalate. She soon discovers they have interest in "Project Lumina", a device that could have galactic-wide consequences if it falls into the wrong hands.
Her quest takes her from a cyberpunk city, to a mutated forest, underground Wild West towns, abandoned laboratories, and more across three planets. The story can feel like it is moving along at a break-neck pace at times.
Situations can intensify and conclusions can come alarmingly quickly. Your party rarely sits back and reflects on what just happened to them, other than when you choose to speak to them back at HQ. After you complete a chapter or overcome disaster, the party is usually flung into its next objective.
Despite this, the game did have dramatic and even sombre moments that were well presented. It even had a couple of twists that did genuinely catch me off guard, but that was in part to how dry the narrative can be at times.
While the NPCs are delightfully quirky – saying strange and humorous things that would fit right into a classic JRPG – your own party members are not very talkative. While you can get a few words out of them when they are first introduced or you chat to them at HQ, there is very little interaction otherwise.
In fact, there were only one or two moments where characters delved into their pasts, feelings, or talked to another party member other than Alyssa outside of their introduction. This issue was likely caused by how you can usually change your party around, so I do not blame the developers for it.
The party characters were certainly not bad, just a little flat. I would still take it over pages of annoying characters or bad story any day.
Enemies roam the map and battle starts when you walk into them. Where your characters stand can not be controlled a'la Chrono Trigger, right down to AoE attacks which becomes more or less useful depending where the enemies are standing. Once they're beaten, enemies never respawn. You can replay your last battle in the menu, with less EXP for these "VR Battles".
In battles, characters have access to up to eight abilities. Once an ability is used, it cannot be used again until a character takes a defensive action to "recharge" them all. Characters learn more abilities as they level up, with each being viable for different tactics rather than one ability being a straight upgrade of another.
Characters also have access to programs and items. Programs are abilities that come with the shields that characters can equip. While you will always get the damage reduction, your character's "Hacktitude" stat affects whether it can use the programs or not.
It can often be interesting to choose between a better shield, or a weaker one with programs that suit your tactics. Items are equipped like abilities, but any character can use them. While both programs and items cannot be recharged during battle, there are abilities that can let you use them once for free.
This gives the characters a surprising depth. While each character has a role they fit into, it can be adapted based on upcoming enemies and the other party members. Characters also gain other traits through their weapon or accessory, such as extra damage to a specific type of enemy or a buff at the start of battle.
While progressing and fighting battles, you can even find NPCs in the world to join as a fifth "party member". Even though they never fight themselves, they offer a passive bonus like accessories for the whole party.
There is an ebb and flow in combat that encourages you to plan several turns ahead to deal the most damage. A character's style builds every turn to increase their damage. It can also be spent in powerful Burst attacks, or keep your character alive for one more turn in Desperate Mode if their style is high enough.
Characters also routinely go into Hyper Mode to deal double damage. The number of turns this takes is different for each character- and for the first time it happens in a fight.
Turns never feel like you are repeating the same pattern of abilities over and over, but enemy attacks can always throw your plans out of sync. The aforementioned Desperate Mode, for example, increases damage, leaving the temptation to hit harder rather than try to keep them alive.
Enemies also deal more damage the longer they stay alive. This means if you have a bad combination of party members, you do not have to wait for enemies to slowly whittle you down while you do the same. The game will not waste your time and instead quickly devastates your party in under five minutes.
This, in turn, makes longer boss battles more exciting, and keeps regular battles from becoming a dull should you go into them with a sub-optimal strategy.
The game is not just centered around high damage, however. Status effects are actually useful, rather than something that never works for you like in other RPGs. If a status effect fails to affect an enemy, it still weakens their resistance to it.
Once they recover from it however, their resistance is higher than it was in the first place. The aforementioned Style and Hyper mechanics also increase the odds of status effects applying, meaning even characters playing support can take advantage of it.
While this is an absolute god-send, there are so few status effects to take advantage of this. Despite all the basics being here (stun, damage over time, debuffs to attack and defence), I was hoping for something more unique much like the abilities themselves. Furthermore, some status effects are perhaps too powerful for you and the AI, as their effects can last until the character dies.
Even though it is fine for players, all but end-game enemies had little to no resistance to these effects. Being these can cause damage every turn or a reduction in their damage output, perhaps it was a tad too useful. Then again, as damage from enemies escalates, being able to break the game feels encouraged and almost expected.
All of these factors add up to battles being a puzzle you have to work out with the myriad of tools you have access to. Albeit, Alyssa must always be in your party and some quests demand you use certain characters to boot.
For a good chunk of the game however, I used characters who could exploit elemental weaknesses of the enemies in that area, along with a healer and a tank. I did not need to deviate from this tactic, though I did change the specific abilities, equipment and characters before almost every battle.
I never felt like I had to grind, and I usually used the battle replay feature to test out different party combinations. The game has four difficulty settings, which can be freely switched between at any time. While I started on the third highest, I moved up to the second highest after the tutorial boss.
I still found the game too easy while I only had four or five party members and no freedom to choose who to bring into battle. Then, the game exploded around the thirteen hour mark.
I suddenly had seven or eight party members in total, the freedom to pick who I wanted, and most of their abilities played off of one another. While I was always seemingly justified picking based on elemental attacks with a healer and a tank, I was only managing to win boss battles by the skin of my teeth.
It does make me concerned that on repeat playthroughs, you would still pick the same characters over and over for the higher difficulties due to their elemental attacks.
The 16 hour mark is where the game gets even more challenging, with one particular side-quest being such a difficulty spike I wonder if the game had glitched and made it available to me too early. The end game content around 20 hours suddenly became incredibly easy, as I had eleven characters to choose from and a wide breadth of options.
I did not even need to abuse elemental weaknesses for the final dungeon. Super-bosses fell with ease as they were stun-locked, forced to attack a tanky character, or everyone already had buffs and debuffs to make attacks a non-issue. It is worth mentioning the second I was not using those tactics, I would have been wiped out.
Even the final boss, once you work out how to deal with it, had less unique tactics than prior bosses. Perhaps I found a broken combination of characters. Despite this, I found the depth of tactics and gameplay overall a delight. Though the game is not without issues.
There are some quality of life issues. Equipment must be removed from a party member before you can equip it onto another, rather than being able to re-assign the gear from that character's menu. Meaning you have to change who is in your party to do so.
There is no form of a log for side-quests and quest related items. Some NPCs or even your own party members may mention their desire for a side-quest, then never refer to it when spoken to again.
There are a few elements that do affect gameplay directly. The duration of buffs and debuffs are listed in your character's abilities in the menu, but not during combat. While status effects have symbols above a character's head, there is no indicator when these unique buffs and debuffs wear off unless you manually count the turns.
In a game with such clever tactical options, the player should have important info like that. The fact they show enemy HP but not that is baffling.
Money and new equipment is also poured onto you. The money given out is excessive, and as all items are refreshed after battle there is really no need for it. Even a character who can get a buff from money takes the money from what you would have earned for that battle.
I suspect you still would have enough money to buy every piece of equipment you can three times over. The weapons you find while exploring are also better than what you can find in shops. Nothing too abnormal for an RPG, except NPCs say your own HQ's shop is restocked regularly, only for it to contain old weapons you may have missed.
One of the game's more prominent issues on the Switch is the glitches. They run from the mundane, such as the ability menu for characters being totally blank and un-interactable, or getting into areas of the map you can slide into but not get out of.
Both of these issues are solved by re-loading the game, as you always start where you walked into the room you saved in. Some were benign and bizarre, like enemies' icons on the turn order bar being of party characters instead, or end-game items in chests being described as having effects totally different to what they actually had. Then there were far more serious ones.
Such as side-quests not paying off, with NPCs saying they will reward you later, only for it to never come. Or a powerful ability that fully heals and revives that is only supposed to work once per battle working as many times as I wished. Or the game soft-locking if you change your party around then enter a battle within the same second when you exit the menu. It should be noted these issues were not present in other versions of the game.
The most egregious however may be an intentional design choice, but I hope not. One of the character's side quests warns you it is a super hard dungeon, and the first few enemies prove it. So I went off to the final dungeon, beat the final boss – and realized in horror I was locked into the final dungeon.
To make matters worse, the game gives you a warning to make a separate save – for the previous dungeon, in a final-dungeon fake out. If it was intentional, then that means the player must have to grind their last battle to be strong enough to take on the super-tough dungeon.
Even though you can get something to remove the EXP nerf from replaying battles, you will be fighting the same battle over and over. If you do it, you will end up over-leveled for the final boss. Which, as I mentioned, I was already finding a tad too easy already.
The games graphics are a throwback to the 16-bit era, with sprites that look like they could step right out of Chrono Trigger. Characters and NPCs are colorful and bright, while backgrounds are slightly less saturated but with more detail.
The game does break the limitations of 16-bits occasionally with some lighting effects and some of the fancier attacks, but it never feels out of place. There's the odd recolored enemy, but despite the world having two forest-based locations, no two areas look alike. Everything has its own distinct color pallet and looks great.
The game occasionally utilizes cut-scenes akin to those in the Lunar series on the Sega CD. These usually look brilliant, though there is perhaps one or two scenes when someone's proportions are slightly off. I only noticed due to how good the other scenes looked- considering the limitations and style they chose.
Unfortunately there are some issues with graphical glitches. There are the rare moments a light should be behind Alyssa, when it sits in front of her (or vice-versa).
In addition there was the occasional moment when the party was riding down an elevator, that the background would slide down with it- revealing a starry vista behind it.
The former is a very minor complaint, but the latter combined with the more serious gameplay issues makes it look like the game is coming apart at the seams of an otherwise good looking game.
The music does its job very well. It is very much in tune with an 80s or 90s JRPG. This includes peppy character themes, exciting battle music, and even the odd vocal out of left field. All played on synths and digital instruments. The battle themes never grew annoying or repetitive for me.
While the melodies to most of the songs are not particularly memorable (save for a full blown song with vocals that took me off guard), they fit each area and scene beautifully. In fact, some areas use the same music, and it fits equally well in both. The sound effects fall to the same back-handed compliment that the music does. Nothing stood out as wrong, so it must be doing it well to fit in.
Unfortunately, the music and sound effects are not immune to the games glitches (on Switch). Some rather dramatic scenes were devoid of music or had the default background music playing. It was only when I replayed a moment of the game when it suddenly played music. It seems the game occasionally decides not to change music tracks or play them at all.
The same applies for a handful of abilities, but these can be counted on one hand. Then again you can also count the number of abilities that have very loud sound effects on one hand. Some abilities can be modified to hit more targets than they are typically intended, and in some instances these abilities do not scale the sound-effects for multiple emissions.
Yet I still find myself recommending it. Glitches on the Switch aside, nothing stopped me enjoying the game once it got going. It is a great little RPG to burn away around 25 hours on, and it may just catch you by surprise.
Cosmic Star Heroine was reviewed on the Nintendo Switch using a review copy received from Zeboyd Games. You can find additional information about Niche Gamer's review/ethics policy here.
Mostly challenging RPG gameplay that encourages you to try different tactics, and won't drag out battles if you're doing it wrong.
Well-made graphics usually matches the graphical limitations it emulates.
Nintendo Switch-related glitches that can hinder you or even force you to re-load the game.
Lack of needed information in combat.
Some music and SFX are missing or fail to play.


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The Guardian Angel: Eucharistic Miracle of Blanot, France 1331
The Eucharistic miracle of Blanot took place during the Easter Mass of 1331. During Communion, a Host fell to a cloth that was held below the communicant's mouth. The priest tried to pick up the Holy Eucharist, but it was not possible. The Host had transformed into Blood, resulting in a stain the same size as the Host, on the cloth. That cloth is preserved today in the village of Blanot.
In the 14th Century, Blanot was a small village in the center of France and part of the diocese of Autun. The bishop of this town, Pierre Bertrand, was involved in certain canonical discussions with an official of his curia, Jean Jarossier, which resulted in documentation that gives us many details about this Eucharistic miracle.
The miracle occurred on Easter Sunday, March 31, 1331, at the first Mass of the day, which was offered by Hugues de la Baume, the vicar of Blanot. One of the last people to receive Communion was a woman named Jacquette, the widow of Regnaut d'Effour. The priest placed the Host on her tongue, turned, and started walking toward the altar. He did not notice that a Particle from the Host fell and landed upon a cloth that covered the woman's hands.
Thomas Caillot, who was assisting at the Mass went to the altar and said: "Father, you must return to the rail because the Body of Our Lord fell from the mouth of this lady onto the cloth." The priest immediately went to the woman, still kneeling at the railing, but instead of finding the Host on the cloth, he saw a small spot of Blood.
When Mass was over, the priest took the cloth into the sacristy and placed the stained area in a basin filled with clear water. After washing the spot and scrubbing it numerous times, he found that it had become darker and larger (reaching about the size and shape of a Host). Moreover, the water in the basin turned Bloody.
This square of cloth was reverently placed in the tabernacle. Every year, on the feast of Corpus Christi, the relic is solemnly exposed in the church of Blanot. An additional note: The Hosts that remained in the ciborium after the distribution of Holy Communion on that Easter Sunday were also returned to the tabernacle, never to be distributed. Hundreds of years later they were found to have been perfectly preserved.
ST. LEO I (Alt)"When the Lord says: 'Unless you shall have eaten the flesh of the Son of Man and shall have drunk His blood, you shall not have life in you,' you ought to so communicate at the Sacred Table that you have no doubt whatever of the truth of the Body and the Blood of Christ. For that which is taken in the mouth is what is believed in faith; and in do those respond, 'Amen,' who argue against that which is received." -"Sermons" [91,3] ante 461 A.D.
ST. CAESAR OF ARLES (Alt)"As often as some infirmity overtakes a man, let him who is ill receive the Body and Blood of Christ." -"Sermons [13 (265), 3]
ST. FULGENE OF RUSPE (Alt)"Hold most firmly and never doubt in the least that the Only-begotten God the Word Himself become flesh offered Himself in an odor of sweetness as a Sacrifice and Victim to God on our behalf; to whom, with the Father, and the Holy Spirit, in the time of the Old Testament animals were sacrificed by the patriarchs and prophets and priests; and to whom now, I mean in the time of the New Testament, with the Father and the Holy Spirit, with whom He has one Godhead, the Holy Catholic Church does not cease in faith and love to offer throughout all the lands of the world a sacrifice of Bread and Wine … In those former sacrifices what would be given us in the future was signified figuratively; but in this sacrifice which has now been given us, it is shown plainly. In those former sacrifices it was fore-announced that the Son of God would be killed for the impious; but in the present it is announced that He has been killed for the impious."
"And according as we say, "Our Father," because He is The Father of those who understand and believe; so also we call it "our Bread," because Christ is The Bread of those who are in union with His Body. And we ask that this Bread should be given to us daily, that we who are in Christ, and daily receive The Eucharist for the Food of Salvation, may not by the interposition of some heinous sin...be separated from Christ's Body." - St. Cyprian (210?-258) When we say "Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness." - St. Augustine "It is happiness to be in heaven, no doubt, because it is to be with Jesus; but have we not almost the same happiness here? Do we not possess Him in the Most Holy Sacrament? Did we but know how to profit by His Divine Presence, we should in some way have no reason to envy the inhabitants of the Heavenly City." - Marie Estelle Harpain (1814-1842) Post not marked as liked

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In Vietnam, belief of the afterlife and the importance of its preparation runs deep among the populace. "There's a saying that's really popular around here: "Life is fleeting, but death is eternal." Everybody here knows it, and while some don't agree with it, most do. "Death is serious business for people in Hue," says 82-year-old Luong Do, keeper of Hue's An Bang tomb city.
Located on the outskirts of Hue, An Bang village's transformation from a former fishing community into the bustling city of the dead it is known as today began in the early 90s when a national economic uplift brought wealth to millions of Vietnamese. With their newfound windfall, the villagers used it plan for their afterlife or the death of their relatives. Before long, elaborate mausoleums and ornately gilded sepulchers started replacing rough-hewn tombstones and cheap markers made out of wooden sticks. Their size and beauty grew as the people accumulated more wealth. Singular tombs soon graduated into sprawling complexes of interconnected clan mausoleums. In ten years, the once unassuming An Bang graveyard ballooned from a small plot to overtake the village almost entirely. These days An Bang is known first and foremost for its thousands of tombs fit for kings and the almost single-minded dedication to the preparation of the afterlife of its residents. It has even appeared on Agence France-Presse, an international news agency headquartered in Paris, for the sheer majestic and wildly eclectic architecture of its cemetery.
Unlike nearby Hue, where UNESCO regulations are in place to preserve the 18th and 19th century buildings, locals in An Bang have been free to let their creativity run wild. From Buddhist-style temples to Gothic tombs, with a hefty sprinkling of Romanesque columns, the cemetery's aesthetic is anything goes. While traditional Vietnamese dragon carvings are popular, some graves also appear to draw inspiration from Hindu imagery, with others featuring Christian or Islamic symbols. A few of the tombs stand empty as some villagers have built them in advance of their own deaths, including one that was completed in 2005 and is now waiting for its owner.
Because of the enormity and meticulous details on the tombstones, they require constant upkeep and this is where Luong Do, and other professional tomb keepers like him, come in. And in An Bang, even the tomb keepers are special, with some families claiming they are the descendants of the keepers of the imperial tombs.
Luong Do is in the process of passing down the family business to his sons and grandsons. He says there is more that goes into the keeping of a tomb that just dusting. There are funeral rites to be observed and remembrance rituals to be carried out. And, above all, everything has to be kept in pristine condition and the cleaning must be carried out with the utmost of respect. There are even months when the keeper is required to live in the tomb itself and not with his family. This is a task that comes with a lot pressure according to Luong Do.


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Gold Cup Soccer Betting Preview – Trinidad and Tobago vs Guatemala
By Ian S Palmer
Trinidad and Tobago square off against Guatemala in a Group C 2015 Gold Cup match at Soldier Field in Chicago on Thursday, July 9. Both squads are in pretty poor form heading into this encounter as Trinidad is winless in their last five outings with four losses and a draw while Guatemala has a win, three losses and a draw in their past five. Guatemala is currently ranked number 93 in the world by FIFA and is the 10th-ranked team in CONCACAF. Trinidad and Tobago enters the game ranked at 67th in the world and sixth in CONCACAF.
bet365 currently lists Trinidad and Tobago as the favorites to win this match at 13/8 with Guatemala 7/4 and a 90-minute draw at 21/10
Guatemala's key player will be midfielder Marco Pappa of the MLS' Seattle Sounders and they'll also be relying on former MLS forward Carlos Ruiz of Municipal and goalkeeper Ricardo Jerez of Alianza Petrolera. The team is managed by Ivan Sopegno of Argentina, who's been with Guatemala for slightly more than a year now. The country won the CONCACAF Championship in 1967 on its home soil, but their best finish since it changed to the Gold Cup format was fourth place in 1996. They reached the quarterfinals in 2011, but didn't qualify for the last tournament in 2013.
There are several Trinidadian players Guatemala will need to watch out for with the best of them being striker Kenwyne Jones of English Championship League side Cardiff City, 23-year-old midfielder/defender Joevin Jones of MLS' Chicago Fire, and 24-year-old central defender Sheldon Bateau of Belgian club Mechelen. The current manager of Trinidad and Tobago is former Canada boss Stephen Hart, who worked with that country's national senior team between 2009 and 2012. However, he was let go after the Canadian were trounced 8-1 by Honduras in a 2014 World Cup qualifying game.
Hart hails from Trinidad and Tobago, and led them to the runners-up spot at the 2014 Caribbean Cup after being beaten in a penalty shootout by Jamaica in the Final. Trinidad made it to the knockout stage of the Gold Cup in 2013 and anything less this time around will be seen as a failure. They were eliminated by Mexico in the quarterfinals two years ago by a score of 1-0. The team's best ever finish in a Gold Cup was reaching the final four in 2000. They also came in second at the CONCACAF Championship back in 1973.
These two teams have met five times in the past in Gold Cup contests with each of them winning once and the other three ending in draws. Overall, they've played each other 20 times with Guatemala winning eight, losing six and drawing six.
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Since 1999, Jewelers for Children has donated more than $51 million to help children who are the victim of catastrophic illness or life-threatening abuse and neglect.
Jewelers for Children was founded in 1999 by the U.S. jewelry industry with the mission of helping children in need. Since its inception, JFC has donated more than $51 million to programs benefiting children whose lives have been affected by illness, abuse, or neglect through our charity partners St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®, Make-A-Wish® America, the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation, and the National CASA Association. JFC also provides support to the Make-A-Wish® International and the Santa-America Fund. This nationwide success is due to the continuing generosity of jewelry trade organizations, jewelry and watch manufacturing companies, jewelry retail stores, individual jewelry professionals, and jewelry consumers.
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Expert profile - Dr Naomi Wells
Dr Naomi Wells
BA Spanish and Italian (Leeds 2007), MA by Research (Leeds 2009), PhD (Leeds 2013)
Post-Doctoral Research Associate (Translingual Communities, European Languages and Digital Humanities)
Institute of Modern Languages Research School of Advanced Study University of London Senate House Malet Street London WC1E 7HU
naomi.wells@sas.ac.uk
Culture, Digital resources, Digitisation, Language and Literature (Italian), Language and Literature (Spanish)
Research keywords:
Digital Humanities, Multilingualism, Transnationalism, Ethnography, Cultures of Migration and Mobility, Language Ideologies and Policies
Europe, South America
I joined the IMLR in 2017 as a Research Associate on the AHRC-funded Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community project (Open World Research Initiative). My research for the project focuses on technology-driven forms of communication and representation, concentrating on social and other digital media generated by language communities in the UK. I am also collaborating with key project partners, and in particular with the British Library where I will be working with their web archives and digital collections experts in the development of new research questions and methodologies for working with digital media.
I was previously a research fellow on the AHRC-funded Transnationalizing Modern Languages project, focusing on the linguistic and cultural practices of migrant and intercultural associations in the city of Bologna (Italy) which forms the basis of my forthcoming monograph. Adopting an interdisciplinary approach, the research draws on applied and sociolinguistics, cultural and translation studies, and cultural and social geography. An additional strand of my research centred on Italian-speaking communities in Chile, and the translingual and transcultural practices of representation and memory within these communities.
My previous PhD research focused on language policy and linguistic minorities in Spain and Italy, and in 2010 I received the Society for Italian Studies postgraduate prize for my MA thesis on language politics and policy in the Veneto and Asturias.
I am equally committed to public engagement and impact activities which bring research in Modern Languages to wider audiences. I previously co-organised two series of creative writing workshops at Sandwell Arts Cafe and the Birmingham Ikon Gallery, attracting new and experienced writers from diverse backgrounds in the West Midlands keen to explore with us how they respond creatively to living in a multilingual and multicultural environment. I have also taken an active role in discussions concerning the future of Modern Languages, co-organising a major event in collaboration with the British Academy on reshaping the discipline and presenting my work in Modern Languages forums across the UK and abroad.
Italian Fluent Fluent
French Intermediate Intermediate
Spanish Fluent Fluent
Other: Beginner's Arabic; Beginner's Catalan
11-Nov-2018 Translanguaging and Collaborative Creative Practices: Communication and Performance in an Intercultural Theatre Group
In Gerardo Mazzaferro, ed. Translanguaging as Everyday Practice, Springer.
01-Apr-2016 The Territorial Principle: Language Rights and Linguistic Minorities in Spain and Italy
In Gill Valentine and Ulrike Vieten, eds. Cartographies of Difference: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Living with Difference. New Visions of the Cosmopolitan Series. Bern: Peter Lang, pp. 157-82.
01-Jan-2012 Multilinguismo nello stato-nazione: lingua e identità sarda all'interno dello stato italiano (1992-2010)
In Silvia Contarini, Margherita Marras and Giuliana Pias, eds. L'identità sarda del XXI secolo: tra globale, locale e postcoloniale. Nuoro: Il Maestrale, pp. 155-70.
24-Oct-2011 The Linguistic Capital of Contested Languages: The Centre-Left and Regional Languages in Asturias and the Veneto, 1998-2008
Language Problems and Language Planning, 32(2) (2011), 117-38
Publications available on SAS-space:
Jul-2018 State recognition for 'contested languages': a comparative study of Sardinian and Asturian, 1992–2010
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While the idea of a named language as a separate and discrete identity is a political and social construct, in the cases of Sardinian and Asturian doubts over their respective 'languageness' have real material consequences, particularly in relation to language policy decisions at the state level. The Asturian example highlights how its lack of official status means that it is either ignored or subjected to repeated challenges to its status as a language variety deserving of recognition and support, reflecting how 'official language' in the Spanish context is often understood in practice as synonymous with the theoretically broader category of 'language'. In contrast, the recent state recognition of Sardinian speakers as a linguistic minority in Italy (Law 482/1999) illustrates how legal recognition served to overcome existing obstacles to the implementation of regional language policy measures. At the same time, the limited subsequent effects of this Law, particularly in the sphere of education, are a reminder of the shortcomings of top-down policies which fail to engage with the local language practices and attitudes of the communities of speakers recognized. The contrastive focus of this article thus acknowledges the continued material consequences of top-down language classification, while highlighting its inadequacies as a language policy mechanism which reinforces artificial distinctions between speech varieties and speakers deserving of recognition.
Jan-2019 Ethnography and Modern Languages
While rarely explicitly recognized in our disciplinary frameworks, the openness and curiosity on which Modern Languages in the UK is founded are, in many ways, ethnographic impulses. Ethnographic theories and practices can be transformative in relation to the undergraduate curriculum, providing an unparalleled model for experiential and holistic approaches to language and cultural learning. As a form of emplaced and embodied knowledge production, ethnography promotes greater reflexivity on our geographical and historical locations as researchers, and on the languages and cultures through which we engage. An ethnographic sensitivity encourages an openness to less hierarchical and hegemonic forms of knowledge, particularly when consciously seeking to invert the traditional colonial ethnographic project and envision instead more participatory and collaborative models of engagement. Modern Languages scholars are at the same time ideally placed to challenge a monolingual mindset and an insensitivity to language-related questions in existing ethnographic research located in cognate disciplines. For Modern Languages to embrace ethnography with credibility, we propose a series of recommendations to mobilize these new research and professional agendas.
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Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Mobility, Identity and Translation in Modern Italian Cultures
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Professional affiliations:
Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI)
Society for Latin America Studies (SLAS)
European Association of Digital Humanities (EADH)
International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society (SIS-EES)
Society for Italian Studies (SIS)
05-Sep-2019 Plenary Speaker
Plenary presentation by M. Soledad Montañez and Naomi Wells ("Lemme hablar": Translanguaging Spaces and Latin American Community Engagement in London) at the Spanish in Society conference at the University of Edinburgh.
19-Jun-2019 Conference panel: Analysing and archiving the web presence of migrant communities in the web archives of the Netherlands and the UK
Panel at the RESAW (a Research Infrastructure for the Study of Archived Web Materials) conference at the University of Amsterdam. Speakers: Saskia Huc-Hepher, Kees Teszelszky and Naomi Wells.
06-Jun-2019 Digital Diasporas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
International conference organised as part of the AHRC-funded project 'Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community'
21-May-2019 Digital Modern Languages seminar series
The Digital Modern Languages seminar series brings together research and teaching in Modern Languages which engages with digital culture, media and technologies. The series is convened by Paul Spence (King's College London) and Naomi Wells (Institute of Modern Languages Research).' It was launched in May 2019 as part of the AHRC-funded Open World Research Initiative, and is supported by the Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community and Language Acts and Worldmaking projects, and by the AHRC Leadership Fellow for Modern Languages (Janice Carruthers).
04-Apr-2019 Conference panel: Cross-Language Dynamics: Translingual Communities between Latin America and the UK
A panel on the work of the AHRC-funded 'Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community' project at the Society of Latin American Studies (UK) conference at the University of Leicester. Speakers: Francielle Carpenedo, M. Soledad Montañez, and Naomi Wells.
05-Dec-2018 Invited seminar
'Translingual Communities and Digital Diasporas: Latin American Voices in the UK Web Archive', invited seminar for the Modern Languages Research Seminar Series, University of Westminster
03-Nov-2018 Conference paper
'Transnational Rootedness in Bologna and Valparaíso: The (Re)production of Collective and Individual Identities in Sites of Italian Migration', Diaspore Italiane – Italy in Movement (A Symposium on Three Continents), John D. Calandra Italian American Institute (New York)
26-Mar-2018 Conference paper
'Representation and digital diasporas: Latin American voices in the UK Web Archive', Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland (AHGBI) 63rd Annual Conference, University of Leeds
22-Feb-2018 Invited speaker
'Bridging the Archive and the Repertoire: London's Latin Americans in the UK Web Archive', Gerald Aylmer Seminar 2019: Digital and the Archive, The National Archives
07-Jul-2017 Invited speaker
'Mediating between home and school: Migrant cultural associations in Bologna and the teaching of the "mother language"', European experiences of 'good' language, 'bad language', and (the) standard language ideology in multilingual communities, past and present (Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies project conference [AHRC Open World Research Initiative]), University of Nottingham.
04-Jul-2017 Conference paper (plenary panel)
Fieldwork, impact and engagement: Reflections on 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages', Scontri e incontri: the dynamics of Italian transcultural exchanges (8th Biennial ACIS Conference), Monash Prato Centre.
03-Jun-2017 Invited speaker
'Language and transgenerational identity in Chile's Italian community: Methodological and theoretical reflections', Researching language in the city: Exploring methodological and theoretical concepts (Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies project conference [AHRC Open World Research Initiative]), Highfield House Hotel, Southampton.
01-Apr-2017 Conference paper
'Language ideologies and identity in Chile's Italian community', SiS2017: Language ideologies in the Spanish-speaking world (8th International Conference of Hispanic Linguistics and 6th Biennial Meeting of the International Association for the Study of Spanish in Society [SIS-EES]), University of Southampton.
20-Mar-2017 Invited speaker
'Digital Humanities and Modern Languages: Researching and representing language communities in the UK Web Archive', Born-Digital Data for History and the Humanities: the challenges of collaborative research (Born-digital Big Data and Methods for History and the Humanities AHRC network workshop), University of Cambridge.
22-Sep-2016 Conference paper
'Bridging Sociolinguistics and Cultural Studies: Linguistic and cultural practices in migrant cultural associations in Bologna', 2nd International Conference on the Sociolinguistics of Immigration, Rapallo, Università degli Studi di Torino.
09-Sep-2016 Invited speaker
With Prof C. Burdett, 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Re-framing the discipline', Languages and Cultures in 21st Century Transnationality, Sheffield Hallam University.
06-Jul-2016 Conference paper
With Dr J. Burns, 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Bridging experiences in research, practice and teaching', Frameworks for Collaboration and Multilingualism Conference (8th Biennial joint LLAS, UCML, and AULC 'Languages in Higher Education' conference), University of Warwick.
15-Jun-2016 Conference paper
'Language as a Site of Empowerment and Solidarity: Migrant Cultural Associations in Bologna and the Teaching of the "Mother Language"', Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Universidad de Murcia.
With Prof D. Duncan and Prof L. Polezzi, 'Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Transnationalizing creative practices', Translation, Translanguaging and Creativity: A Translating Cultures Workshop, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study.
26-May-2016 Conference paper
'From imitation to appropriation: Reshaping the Italian language in migrant and intercultural associations in Bologna, Italy', New Plurilingual Pathways for Integration: Immigrants and Language Learning in the 21st Century (BAAL/Cambridge University Press seminar), Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
'Transnational Cultural and Linguistic Practices in Migrant Cultural Associations in Bologna', Turning Points: Cultures of Transition, Transformation and Transmission In Italy (Society for Italian Studies Interim Conference), Trinity College Dublin.
13-Nov-2015 Invited speaker
With Prof L. Polezzi, 'Working globally through multilingualism and translation', Multilingualism in Practice in the University ESRC Seminar, University of Birmingham.
'Transnationalizing Modern Languages: Negotiating linguistic and cultural diversity in contemporary Italy', invited research seminar, School of Modern Languages, University of Leicester.
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Hibernians midfielder Bjorn Kristensen won the MFA Footballer of the Year award at the 2017 MFA Awards which held at the Mediterranean Conference Centre on Sunday.
The other finalists were Andrei Agius (Hibs), Paul Fenech (Balzan), Gareth Sciberras (Birkirkara) and Joseph Zerafa (Birkirkara).
Champions Hibernians claimed another two awards as Mark Miller was voted Coach of the Year and Jurgen Degabriele Young Player of the Year.
The BOV Premier League top scorer – Balzan's Bojan Kaljevic – was voted Foreign Player of the Year.
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US Embassy in Iraq advises citizens against all travel amid tensions with Iran
It also told Americans in Iraq to be cautious and keep a low profile
A member of Iraqi federal police forces stands guard infront of a Mosque in Baghdad. EPA
The US embassy in Iraq has issued a warning to its citizens advising them against travelling to the country amid heightened tensions in the region.
The warning advised US citizens in the country to "remain vigilant" and to "keep a low profile".
The recent incident where four cargo vessels were subjected to "sabotage operations" off the coast of Fujairah, has further intensified response from both residents and officials.
The Bahraini Ministry of Foreign Affairs has condemned the attack and stressed the need for the international community to bear the responsibility of maritime trade around the world.
Dr Al Zayani echoed regional calls for more burden sharing on maritime safety by international organisations responsible for naval trade security to help prevent more attacks.
The GCC is highly dependent on maritime trade networks to export oil, a trade that accounts for more than 90 per cent of the Arabian Gulf's economies.
UAE releases Qatari military vessel that entered its waters
Seven Emiratis and two Egyptian captives released by Iran
Houthis holding a 'floating bomb' oil tanker hostage off Yemen's coast
Any disruption to the trade networks have sparked fears of cutting off the major source of revenue for oil producers Saudi Arabia and the UAE.
Fujairah port is located close to the Strait of Hormuz, a strategic strait that separates Oman's coast of Musandam from Iran by less than 60 kilometres. About 30 per cent of the world's oil passes through the strait every day.
"Such irresponsible acts will increase tension and conflicts in the region and expose its peoples to great danger," Dr Al Zayani said.
Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson said the attacks were "alarming and regrettable" according to a statement issued on the website of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
He said the attacks will disrupt shipping safety and "he warned against plots by ill-wishers to disrupt regional security".
The statement ended with Mr Mousavi also calling on "the vigilance of regional states in the face of any adventurism by foreign elements".
It is still unclear who was behind the attacks but the US issued a warning saying that "Iran or its proxies could respond by targeting commercial vessels".
The UAE is conducting an investigation into the "sabotage".


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OVERVIEW: Robert Rotella and his wife Rosemarie move their philanthropy through the Robert P. Rotella Foundation, which gave away a little under $510,000 in a recent year. The foundation's grantmaking focuses on policy and environmental organizations.
BACKGROUND: Robert P. Rotella graduated with a B.S. in chemical engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 1978 and an MBA from Temple University in 1980. He began his trading career in 1982 and started writing computer programs and trading independently in 1985. He began trading the Polaris program in 1990 with Commodities Corporation, arguably one of the most successful incubators of traders. In 1994 he moved to Singapore and worked as a senior trader for Commodities Corp. and Orix Corp. He launched Rotella Capital in 1995. His 1992 book, The Elements of Successful Trading, identified three critical elements to trading—Method, Money Management, and Psychology.
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Women Who Have Revolutionized the Legal Profession
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Jane Bolin
First African-American woman to graduate from Yale Law School, to join the New York City Bar Association, to join the New York City Law Department, and to serve as a judge in the United States!
Jane Bolin was born in Poughkeepsie, New York on April 11, 1908. She was the daughter of Gaius C. Bolin, a lawyer and the first black person to graduate from Williams College. At 16, she enrolled at Wellesley College where she was one of only two black freshmen. Bolin graduated in the top 20 of her class in 1928.
Although Bolin was strongly discouraged from applying to Yale Law School due to her race, she was admitted and graduated in 1931 as the first black woman to receive a law degree from Yale. She then went on to become the first black woman to join the New York City Bar Association in 1932.
On July 22, 1939, Mayor of New York City, Fiorello La Guardia, appointed Bolin as a judge of the Domestic Relations Court, making Bolin the first black woman to serve as a judge in the United States. Bolin proceeded to be the only black female judge in the country for twenty years. Source
Lyda Conley
First Native American Woman to Argue a Case Before the Supreme Court
Eliza Burton "Lyda" Conley was an Wyandot-American lawyer of Native American and European descent, the first woman admitted to the Kansas Bar Association. She was notable for her campaign to prevent the sale and development of the Huron Cemetery in Kansas City, now known as the Wyandot National Burying Ground. She challenged the government in court, and in 1909 she was the first Native American woman admitted to argue a case before the Supreme Court of the United States. Source
Beth Robinson
First Openly LGBTQ Woman To Serve on a Federal Appeals Court
Beth Robinson (born March 6, 1965) is an American lawyer and judge from Vermont. She is a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit and is the first openly lesbian judge to serve on any Circuit Court. Robinson served as an associate justice of the Vermont Supreme Court from 2011 to 2021.
Before joining the Vermont Supreme Court in 2011, Robinson was a civil litigator at Langrock Sperry & Wool from 1993 to 2011 focusing on employment law, workers' compensation, contract disputes and family law and representing LGBT individuals in civil rights cases.
She served as co-counsel in Baker v. State of Vermont, in which the Vermont Supreme Court ruled the state's ban on same-sex marriage violated state law. The 1999 decision led to the state Legislature's enactment of Vermont's civil union law the following year. Source
Claudia Gordon
First Deaf Black Female Attorney in the United States
Claudia Gordon is the first female African American deaf lawyer in the United States. She is also the first deaf student to graduate in 2000, from the American University (AU) Washington College of Law, in Washington, DC. At AU, Gordon specialized in disability rights law and policy. Since earning her juris doctorate from AU, Gordon has been active in working to ensure the rights of people with disabilities are respected. Claudia Gordon was born in rural Jamaica. Her mother immigrated to the South Bronx, in New York, so that she could earn a better living, and planned to reunite with her children as soon as she could. Claudia and her younger siblings were left in the care of her eldest sister, Mildred Taylor, a schoolteacher. While in her eldest sister's care, Claudia suddenly developed severe pain in her middle ears and at age eight Claudia Gordon became deaf. Gordon graduated from Howard University in 1995 with a bachelor of arts in political science. At Howard, Gordon was a Patricia Robert Harris Public Affairs Fellow, a member of the Golden Key National Honor Society, and the Political Science Honor Society. More awards and honors came at American University, where Gordon was an Equal Justice Foundation Fellow, had the Myers Law Scholarship, and the J. Franklin Bourne Scholarship. In 2002, Gordon received the Paul G. Hearne/AAPD Leadership Award from the American Association of People with Disabilities. Source
Patsy Mink
First Asian American Woman Elected Into Congress
As a third-generation Japanese American, Patsy Mink grew up in Hawaii and graduated from the University of Chicago Law School in 1948. She faced sexism when she was refused the right to take the bar exam in Hawaii, due to losing her Hawaiian territorial residency when she got married. She challenged the statute and was able to pass the bar but was rejected from jobs because she was married and had a child, so she started her own practice in 1953. She made waves challenging discriminatory laws and became the first woman of color and the first Asian American woman elected into Congress when she won a seat in 1964. She served for 12 terms and later ran for the 1972 presidential election, making her the first East Asian American woman to seek a presidential nomination. Source
Victoria Kolakowski
First Openly Transgender Person to Serve as a Trial Court Judge in the United States
Judge Victoria Kolakowski became the first and only openly transgender trial judge in the United States when she was elected to the Alameda County Superior Court in November 2010. Judge Kolakowski is a former President of the International Association of LGBT Judges, and of the Earl Warren American Inn of Court chapter in Alameda County. She was an attorney for twenty-one years in Louisiana and California, serving as a sole practitioner, attorney in a small firm, as general counsel for a publicly-traded company, as a senior government utility regulatory attorney, and as an administrative law judge for two different California agencies. As a judge, she has served in both civil and criminal trial assignments. She recently completed a year as the Supervising Judge of the Collaborative Courts, with subject matter oversight over all of the treatment courts (drug, behavioral health, veterans', etc.) in Alameda County. Source
Ollie E. Watson
First Woman to Serve as President of the National Court Reporters Association (National Shorthand Reporters Association, at the time)
While the first convention of the National Shorthand Reporters Association (later renamed the NCRA), convened in Chicago in 1899 with 156 reporters in attendance, it wouldn't be until 1951 when its first female president, Ollie E. Watson, was elected. Rachel M. Smith was the second female president, elected in 1954. Source
Charlotte E. Ray
First African American Female Attorney in the US
The daughter of an important figure in the abolitionist movement and newspaper editor, Charlotte E. Ray was encouraged from an early age to go to college. In 1872, she became the first woman to graduate from the Howard University School of Law. That same year she was admitted to the District of Columbia Bar, becoming the first African-American woman lawyer in the United States. While details of her specific area of practice are debated, there is evidence that she was the first woman to argue a case in the District of Columbia Supreme Court. An example of her writing still exists from Gadley v. Gadley, a domestic abuse case from 1875. Despite her legal knowledge and corporate law expertise, and efforts to advertise her services in Frederick Douglass' weekly newspaper, racial and gender biases kept her from a prosperous legal career. She later became a teacher in the Brooklyn school system.
Connie Rill
Founding President of the American Association of Electronic Reporters and Transcribers (AAERT)
The founding concepts for the American Association of Electronic Reporters and Transcribers (AAERT) began with Connie Rill (California), who in 1993 invited two associates, Steve Townsend (Arizona) and Janet Harris (Wisconsin), to explore forming an organization to represent the electronic court reporting and transcribing industry. Their efforts came to fruition in March 1994 when about 75 interested private-sector practitioners met in Las Vegas to formally inaugurate AAERT. Source
Arabella Mansfield
First Licensed Female Attorney in the US
Arabella Mansfield, also known as Belle Babb Mansfield, was the first licensed female attorney in the United States. Mansfield graduated from Iowa Wesleyan University in 1866 and taught Political Science, English and History at Simpson College. In 1868, encouraged by her husband, Mansfield took the bar exam and passed with high scores despite an Iowa law prohibiting women to practice law. After Mansfield fiercely challenged the law, the court ruled that women may not be denied the right to practice and admitted her to the Iowa State Bar in 1869. Despite the newly overturned law, Mansfield chose to dedicate her life to college teaching and activist work—specifically, the Women's Suffrage Movement.
Deborah A. Batts
First Openly LGBTQ+ Member of the Federal Judiciary & First Black Faculty Member at Fordham University School of Law
United States District Judge Deborah A. Batts is the first openly gay, lesbian, or bisexual member of the federal judiciary.
President Clinton appointed Judge Batts to the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in 1994. A distinguished member of the bench, she has presided over several high-profile cases, including a lawsuit against former EPA Administrator Christine Todd Whitman, who was accused of failing to inform New Yorkers of the health risks of returning to their homes after the 9/11 attacks.
In 1973, she became an associate at Cravath, Swaine & Moore. In 1979, she became an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York in the Criminal Division. And in 1984, Judge Batts joined the faculty at Fordham University School of Law as the first black faculty member. Source
Vivien Spitz
Female Stenographer for the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial
Vivien Spitz was the first female Official Reporter of Debates in the United States Senate and a court reporter at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. In 1946 Spitz, a court reporter from Illinois, was recruited to report verbatim proceedings at the Nuremberg War Crimes Trial. In 1948, after returning to the US following the trials, Spitz suffered from PTSD as a result of the horrifying testimonies from witnesses and victims of the Holocaust. She courageously persisted and went on to serve as an official shorthand reporter in the Denver District Court, then as the first female Official Reporter of Debates in the US Senate, and finally as an Official Reporter of Debates in the US House of Representatives – a job she held for ten years, under four presidents. In her retirement, Spitz received several humanitarian awards for sharing her experiences from Nuremberg with students and adults interested in medical ethics and human rights. In 2005, she published the book, Doctors from Hell, The Horrific Account of Nazi Experiments on Humans.
Clara Foltz
A Suffragette who Passed the "Woman Lawyer's Bill" in California
Clara Shortridge Foltz is most notable for becoming the first female lawyer on the West Coast. In 1877, a single mother of five children, Foltz supported her young family by giving public lectures on the Women's Suffrage Movement. It was during this time that she began studying law in the office of a local judge. After being denied the opportunity to take the California bar exam Foltz authored the "Woman Lawyer Bill, which replaced the term "white male" with "person" permitted to practice law. In 1878, on her own education and merit, she passed the bar exam and became the first woman admitted to the California bar and thus the first female lawyer on the West Coast. Foltz tried cases in court before women were allowed to serve on juries and was a leader in the women's voting rights movement. While she struggled for sufficient income for decades, Foltz had many more "firsts" throughout her life: she was the first woman appointed to the State Board of Corrections, the first female Notary Public, the first female clerk for the State Assembly's Judiciary Committee, the first woman to run for Governor of California, and the first female deputy district attorney in the United States.
First African-American woman appointed to the federal judiciary, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's first female attorney, First African-American woman to argue a case before the Supreme Court, and First African-American woman to sit in the State Senate!
Constance Baker Motley was born on September 14, 1921 in New Haven, Connecticut. Motley attended New York University in 1943 and received her law degree from Columbia Law School in 1946. During Baker's second year of law school, future U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice, Thurgood Marshall, hired her as a law clerk.
After graduating from Columbia, Motley became the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund's (LDF) first female attorney. Motley went on to become Associate Counsel to the LDF, making her a lead attorney in many significant civil rights cases.
In 1950, Motley wrote the original complaint in the case of Brown v. Board of Education. She was also the first African-American woman to argue a case before the U.S. Supreme Court (Meredith v. Fair). Motley was successful in nine of the ten cases she argued before the Supreme Court.
Motley was elected to the New York State Senate in 1964, making her the first African-American woman to sit in the State Senate.
In 1966, Motley broke another glass ceiling by becoming the first African-American federal judge after her nomination to a seat on the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York by President Lyndon B. Johnson. Source
Sandra Day O'Connor
First Female Justice of the US Supreme Court
Born on a cattle ranch in El Paso, TX, Sandra Day O'Connor graduated magna cum laude with a BA in economics from Stanford University at the age of 20 and received her law degree two years later. Early on in her career, despite her academic achievements, O'Connor found it difficult to find a paying job as an attorney due to gender biases. Not one to be discouraged, she offered to work for no pay and worked her way to become a deputy district attorney in San Mateo, CA and then a civil attorney for the army in Germany. Upon her return to the US she became an assistant attorney general for Arizona in 1965 and was elected to the Arizona Senate in 1969. There she became the first woman in the United States to become majority leader. In 1975 she was elected a Superior Court Judge in Maricopa county and then to the Arizona Court of Appeals in Phoenix. In 1981 O'Connor was nominated by President Ronald Reagan to fill a vacancy in the Supreme Court. She was confirmed unanimously by the Senate and sworn in as the very first female justice, shattering the highest glass ceiling in the American legal system. During her tenure on the Court, O'Connor became known as a "swing vote" on many prominent cases, including Casey v. Planned Parenthood and Bush v. Gore.
Gloria Allred
Influential Female Attorney for Women's Rights
A well-known champion for women's rights, Gloria Allred began her career as a high school teacher in Philadelphia, PA. While working on her graduate degree at New York University Allred became deeply involved in the civil rights movement. She moved to Los Angeles, CA in 1966 and worked for the Los Angeles Teachers Association. After her own personal experience with assault, Allred began to pursue a law degree and committed her life to helping victims. In 1975 she was admitted to the State Bar of California and began a four decades long influential legal career. She has represented a wide variety of civil rights suits involving women's' rights, wrongful termination and employment discrimination, and was the first lawyer to challenge same-sex marriage laws in California. A master of the press conference, Allred is known for bringing cases against high-profile men and celebrities and managing the narrative that surrounds them for her clients.
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After launching the Blow & Style menu, Creative Director, Bruce Masefield and Get The Gloss's Susannah Taylor teamed up to share expert tips on how to master the art of a Sassoon blow dry and simple styling - perfect for any occasion. During the evening Bruce gave a 'how to' demonstration on looks from the Blow & Style menu; Beach Wave, Loose Wave, Dishevelled Pony and the Fishtail Braid.
We joined beauty forces with Charlotte Tilbury from Harvey Nichols, Leeds who advised guests on looks that would best suit their style, skin tone and hair style. The ladies were on hand to give complimentary makeovers and short tutorials. The delicious canapés & fizz, provided by Harvey Nichols, Leeds were the perfect finishing touch.


I am sharing an update. Home Depo has an employee donated fund called the Homer Fund. We submitted an application since my husband has worked for this giant retailer for over12 yrs and has been involved with weekly contributions as all employees do. We were denied because Nicholas was over 18, and NOT related to Roger. Hundreds of thousands of dollars just sitting collecting interest, not helping the families it is intended for. So, Yes, I Am Sharing this Update!!
Home Depo "" Employee funded program"" called Homer fund, donations from Weekley pay goes into an account to help families in need of some help. Roger, my husband put in an application to human resources for aide but we were denied because Nicholas was over 18 & NOT related to Roger! Hundreds of thousands of dollars sitting collecting interest and they turned us down! So,, YES, I AM SHARING THIS.
Well everybody, I'm giving it 1 more try ,,,probably my last. My son did not die from drugs, his toxicology report was neg, we have a family history of brain aneurysms, lost my older sister after quadruple bypass surgery, there's lots of other ways die, believe it or not. My son was all I had left, we were best friends, that was both ways. I am basically alone now. I need help. I have a $9,870.00 funeral bill I can not pay. We love animals & I donate locally & to WWF. I just adopted a rescue dog in December, for Nicholas, from a kill shelter in Brooklyn, NYC. Please go to my GB & see the pictures. He was a sweet, caring, giving human being taken away too soon. I lost 3 weeks of work because of my pain, suffering, literally dying in agony. I still am. Thank you who did donate, please, to those that haven't, find it in your heart to donate even a small amount. Any amount will help me like you do know,,, yet. Anybody out there have a plan or fund or life insurance for your kids? I didn't think so. It comes at you before you can realize it really did, & your left with nothing. https://www.gofundme.com/burial-for-my-son-nicholas. Thank you.


How can you use all those apples? Our Crockpot Homemade Applesauce is just as incredible as this my Baked Apple Chimichanga recipe.
Many of you are spending this time of year at the local apple orchards filling your baskets with freshly picked apples. Or, ordering gourmet boxes full of the fruit from Harry & David, or the like. While applesauce is great, this different take on an apple dessert recipe is just perfect for an autumn afternoon.
Butter Core, peel and chop apples.
Combine all filling ingredients except the apples in a medium saucepan and bring to a boil.
Cook until mixture thickens (about 3 minutes).
Combine cinnamon and sugar in a bowl and mix well. Set aside.
Microwave the tortillas for 30 seconds to make them more pliable fo folding.
Spoon filling across the bottom third of the tortilla.
Fold in the sides of the tortilla before rolling the bottom of the tortilla over the filling, and then rolling on over burrito style.
Cover each enchilada with a lot of butter and then sprinkle with cinnamon sugar mixture.
Bake 20-30 minutes until tops are brown and crispy.
This is another cooking with kids recipe that they'll love to do with you! Plus, get ready for that fantastic aroma of apples baking with cinnamon and sugar! Yummy!
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I can't wait for you to make these for me!
This looks delicious! I love that apple corer/peeler. It's the best!
This looks delicious and the perfect Fall dessert!
This looks tasty!!! I can't wait to make it for the kids!
That looks beyond delicious, and so easy to make. I need to get a new apple corer though. I can't find mine. I pinned this!
Oh my yes please. I love the idea of making apple wraps like these. So yummy and fall like.
I've been in the mood for apple-baking-something! This will fit my craving – never tried apple chimichangas before!
Wow these look amazing! We love anything with apples so I'll be trying this recipe very soon!
Oohh, these look delicious!! My girls would love to make these. I be the house smells so good while it is cooking.


In my opinion, Latino's should be allowed to stay in this country and work. The people that would mostly be hurt are the children of the immigrants. What I think that congress is afraid to say is that they want to keep Latino's here freely and only gear the laws toward nations linked to terrorism. Sometimes I just wish that people would say what they mean and forget about the politics of it all, but I understand their need to keep their prestige and position.
It�s basically an every man/woman for themselves kind of world. Mostly everyone is selfish or if they do decide on a whim to help their fellow man they do it and make sure that others are aware of it. It is wonderful the way everyone did rally around the Katrina victims. Many churches organized trips to help in rebuilding and feeding the New Orleans residents and workers. Many of the workers that are helping to rebuild this great city are Latino's. Everyone plays a part in this rebuild. If you brought out your mad side when FEMA and the government took so long to get into action, then you helped. It is crucial for us as Americans with rights to enforce those rights with our voices.
When you lay your head down at night think about those children of the immigrants and that feeling in your stomach you get around lunch time. Try going without lunch. See how it feels to these children everyday that their parents are not working. See how long you can stand it. We should support legislation that keeps children safe and happy, and that keeps their parents with money in their pockets to support them.
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I have to agree with you. There is a lot of worry coming from many sides. Certainly the children of immigrants, who have long since assimilated to the American culture, must be considered. It may also affect those who are actually waiting for green cards and those who wish to come to this country legally. It would affect our employers who would need verification from the rest of us to prove that we're citizens. It would also affect the minimum wage itself, and certainly how the government would handle its border control.
There were times in the past when immigration laws were created strictly to prohibit certain races from entering the country (ie when it happened to certain Asian races).
This is a complex problem that needs to be addressed. In my opinion, this was a problem that was growing over the past decades and they are suddenly going to "fix it" by making them criminals. It just doesn't seem right to handle it this way.
You are right it would affect not effect. lol I am the grammer queen. :). The government also needs to lower the price that immigrants have to pay to go the legal way. It cost $800.00 just to begin the process to get a workers Visa. Immigrants are some of the most abitious people that I have ever met, but when they come here they are not rich, how can they afford to pay that much and why is the price even that high?
I'm glad you caught the affect/effect thing. Little stuff like that can reduce the effectiveness of your article. It's the effect of the affect/effect effect.
I hope I haven't fect it up.
p.s.- I somewhat disagree but I may post on this subject myself.
I'm thinking 'whom' here but I'm not so good with this one. I usually go with my ear here 'irregardless' of any rule.


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Admiraltinden: Greenland
This page presents the geographical name data for Admiraltinden in Greenland, as supplied by the US military intelligence in electronic format, including the geographic coordinates and place name in various forms, latin, roman and native characters, and its location in its respective country's administrative division.
Full Name (see definition): Admiraltinden
Primary Country Code (see definition): GL (Greenland)
First-order administrative division code (see definition): 02 (Østgrønland )
Longitude in decimal degrees (see definition): -32.15
Longitude in degrees, minutes, and seconds (see definition): 32° 09' 00" W
Military Grid Reference System coordinates (see definition): 25WER3532957973
Joint Operations Graphic reference (see definition): NR25-10
Feature Designation Code (see definition): MT (mountain)
A form of the full name that allows for alphabetical sorting of the file into gazetteer sequence (see definition): ADMIRALTINDEN
Full Name with QWERTY characters (see definition): Admiraltinden
NOTE: The information regarding Admiraltinden in Greenland on this page is published from the data supplied by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, a member of the Intelligence community of the United States of America, and a Department of Defense (DoD) Combat Support Agency. No claims are made regarding the accuracy of Admiraltinden information contained here. All suggestions for corrections of any errors about Admiraltinden should be addressed to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.
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No dip in civil servants' overseas trips
Published On: July 25, 2017 02:30 AM NPT By: Republica | @RepublicaNepal
KATHMANDU, JULY 24: Prime Minister Sher Bahadur Deuba's call to stop foreign junkets by government officials has done little to discourage civil servants from travelling abroad. On July 13, Deuba had instructed newly-appointed Chief Secretary Rajendra Kishor Kshetri to bar overseas trips by top bureaucrats and other officials for attending programs other than those concerning bilateral relations with foreign countries.
But tracking by Republica of government employees who acquired permission for overseas trips shows no decline in such visits.
Over 100 government staff are currently on foreign visits and twice as many more are in the queue to visit overseas in the next few weeks, according to information gathered from various agencies. The actual figure could be higher since information pertaining to some ministries is not included.
On Monday, 10 officials of the Ministry of Federal Affairs and Local Development left for Australia to attend a 'sharing and learning program' on sub-national governance.
Since Friday, around 90 government employees including staff of the Ministry of Agricultural Development, Ministry of Health, Ministry of Women Children and Social Welfare, National Women's Commission, Ministry of Water Supply and Sanitation, Office of the Auditor General and Ministry of Finance left the country to attend various programs.
Among them, at least 16 officials of the Ministry of Agricultural Development and various departments are in South Korea and Switzerland. Last week, more than two dozen officials of the ministry had attended a program in Sri Lanka.
"Visits to South Korea and Sri Lanka took place through the World Bank funded PPCR: The Building Resilience to Climate Related Hazards Project of the World Bank is running an independent unit at the ministry, focusing on climate change-related issues," said Tika Ram Sharma, information officer at the ministry.
More than 90 percent of programs being attended by government officials involve study tours, exposure visits, impact evaluation workshops and capacity building workshops. Experts with knowledge of such trips said these visits are pure junkets involving huge costs.
Talking to Republica, officials at some of the ministries concerned said they are not happy over the way taxpayer money is being wasted on useless programs.
"This particular trip costs somewhere between Rs 600,000 to 800,000 per person. With that kind of money, we could have given residential training to around 1,000 government employees at local level. It would be good if the government bans such useless visits," an official at the Ministry of Federal Affairs said, referring to Monday's the Australia visit of his colleagues.
Sharma, however, defended the visits, saying they were good for the development of the employees concerned and the government agencies.
"Such visits are useful for learning the good practices of other countries in coping with the hazards of climate change. Experience gained from Sri Lanka and Korea will help officials develop appropriate action plans to reduce the impact of climate change on farmers," he said.
Meanwhile, nine officials from the Office of the Prime Minister and Council of Minister, including Secretary Gopinath Mainali and eight officials from the Ministry of Education including Secretary Shanta Bahadur Shrestha returned on Monday after visiting Australia in defiance of PM Dueba's direction .
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A small, shrubby, evergreen tree ideal for arid regions. In spring, it bears large, dense, clusters of showy red flowers that attract birds. It is very decorative, but rather slow growing.
In spring, it bears large, dense, clusters of showy red flowers that attract birds.
This evergreen tree ideal for arid regions.


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Students must complete the 3+3 JD Commitment Form and meet character and fitness requirements. No additional university application fee will be required for admission to the 3+3 program.
Students must decide to participate in the 3+3 Program before they begin their third year of undergraduate study. If a student decides at some point to pursue only the undergraduate portion of the 3+3 program, all regular undergraduate program and course requirements will apply.
Students in the 3+3 Program who complete all necessary requirements will earn a bachelor's degree following completion of their fourth year of study (first year of law school).
Undergraduate tuition and fees will be charged through the first three years; law school tuition and fees will be charged when students enter into the law school in year four. Undergraduate scholarships and grant aid will continue during the fourth year to be consistent with the Northeastern Promise, guaranteeing aid through eight semesters of study.
Students in the 3+3 Program are eligible for School of Law scholarship awards during their fifth and sixth years. These awards will include, at a minimum, the Double Husky Scholarship, which is a 25% tuition merit scholarship, or any other law school scholarship for which students qualify. Participants eligible for federal aid will be awarded aid as undergraduate students for the first three years; federal loans will be based on undergraduate limits and Pell Grant and state scholarships will be available to those who qualify. Beginning in the fourth year, loan limits will reflect graduate student status.
(1) Participation is currently by invitation only.
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