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180-degree panorama. A challenge for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) Wildlife Services (WS) Airport Wildlife Hazard Management Program's, local Wildlife Biologist Michael Pacheco uses Integrated Wildlife Damage Management (IWDM) make recommendations for the design and use of the confluence of Woman Hollering Creek and storm ditches that flow through ponds that were originally designed as detention ponds to slow and control flightline stormwater flow, but have become retention ponds that provide favorable food, water, and shelter for wildlife which also supports birds and the hazards to flight activities at Joint Base San Antonio JBSA - Randolph, Texas, on Feburary 16, 2022.

 

After recent work, both sides of the riparian area is clear and water flows easily.

 

To see how it looked almost two years ago, go to flic.kr/p/2iZbAYh. Then, one side of the riparian area had become lush and an ideal habitat for many kinds of wildlife. This wildlife that sustains birds that are a flight safety hazard to the nearby runways on the east and west that are very active flight operations.

 

For more information and related videos, PLEASE see the APHIS-Integrated Wildlife Damage Management at JBSA Randolph album description at flic.kr/s/aHsmN6DtGH.

 

USDA Photo by Michael Pacheco.

  

Elev8 Parent Mentor Program at Ames Middle School Chicago:

eric@smittyimage.comGloria Bedillo had never served as a school volunteer before, or thought of herself as a leader. But within XX months of the day her daughter enrolled at Logan Square’s Ames Middle, all that changed. Suddenly Bedillo found herself serving as a classroom assistant, a family book group leader, a truant outreach worker, a member of the local school council, and chair of the school’s No Child Left Behind Committee. REACTION FROM HER—IS SHE SURPRISED? While Bedillo is one of the more active parents at Ames, she is hardly unusual. Inner-city schools often bemoan the lack of parental involvement, but Ames has it in spades: 20 parents are volunteering or working for modest wages at the school almost daily at a variety of jobs through Logan Square Neighborhood Association’s Parent Mentor Program. “It’s an enhancement to everything we do,” said Ames Principal Thomas Hoffman who credits the program’s parent truancy outreach workers for helping to raise the school’s average daily attendance rate more than two percentage points in the past two years. LSNA launched the Parent Mentor Program in 1995 as a way to give parents, mainly Hispanic women, the skills and confidence to get more involved in their children’s education. Since then, the program has trained more than 1,300 parents at nine neighborhood elementary schools as classroom mentors for struggling students.But learning how to assist students and school staff is just the beginning. Parent mentors are encouraged to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities. And they are urged to pursue personal goals, such as finding employment or pursuing further education. Many have gone on to take ESL or GED classes offered at Ames and four other Logan Square elementary schools.Maria Marquez, a former parent mentor who now coordinates that program at Ames, went even further. She enrolled in LSNA's “Grow Your Own” program which helps Logan Square residents earn undergraduate degrees in education and land jobs in Chicago Public Schools, helping to alleviate the bilingual teacher shortage. More than 20 other parent mentors have done likewise. “Had it had it not been for the Parent Mentor Program I would not be going to Northeastern [University],” she said.For Bedillo, joining the program was no less transformative. As a former substance abuse counselor with an associates degree in social services, she had always enjoyed helping people. BUT OUTSIDE HER CIRCLE?, she had been hesitant to speak her mind. “She was kind of quiet when she first started, not wanting to say a lot,” Marquez recalled.But in the safety of the parent mentor group—LSNA trained a dozen this fall—she began to speak up, said Marquez. “She's a little bit more confident about her opinions.”During one meeting, when a mother complained that her son was unable to get reduced city bus fare because he couldn't prove he went to Ames, Bedillo volunteered to ask the principal about providing student IDs. The principal agreed to do so. WHAT MADE HER DECIDE TO DO THAT.The other mothers were impressed, said Marquez. Later, when she asked for volunteers for the school’s No Child Left Behind Advisory Committee, they quickly nominated Bedillo as chair, said Marquez.“I was like 'Me?' Bedillo recalls. “They were like, 'Yes, you.'”Bedillo, a friendly woman with a ready smile, initially signed-up as a parent mentor because of concerns about school safety, which provided to be unfounded, she said. But that first step was a gateway. “The more I get involved with my daughters school,” she said, “the more I want to be involved.”Her sudden interest surprised her daughter, Jaileen Martinez. “I was shocked about it. I just thought of my mom as a house mom.” The 7th-grader was also worried. “I was kind of scared because I thought she would embarrass me,” Jaileen acknowledged. But she needn't have worried. Her friends thought Bedillo was cool. “When they see me they're like, 'Where's your mom?'” And rather than embarrassed by her mother's involvement at the school, Jaileen found herself impressed. “She's so into it. Her trying to help somebody makes me want to do the same. She motivates me.”Parents in neighborhoods like Logan Square often don't realize how eager schools are for their participation, said Marquez. That's especially true for those immigrating from Mexico or other Central American countries, she explained.In Mexico, parents don’t ever question the teacher or principal, said Marquez. “You can't come into the classroom because it’s invading their domain.”But the parent mentor training makes it clear how much they are valued, not only by recruiting them to serve in a variety of additional roles—safety patrol, truancy outreach, after school tutorCK—but by building their confidence. Before parents step foot in the classroom, they get two weeks of training on the school's math and reading curriculum and also on personal development and leadership. The training continues for two hours a week throughout the school year. Parents without degrees often imagine they don’t have much to offer the school, said Leticia Barerra, another Parent Mentor alumna who now manages the program for LSNA. When parents realize they have lots of skills and talents they can offer to the school, they feel important and useful.” CAN BEDILLO COMMENT ON HER EXPERIENCE?Parents also need to know they have the right to speak up to authority, she said, whether to the principal, the alderman or their state representatives. “They didn't realize how much power they could have,” Barerra explains. “As soon as they know, they start making phone calls.” During last school year's training, a group of mothers suddenly decided to visit the alderman and demand traffic-calming measures around the school: They got their way. After this year's initial training, parents spontaneously teamed up to go door to door to encourage their neighbors to vote. ASK BEDILLO ABOUT THIS.HOW MANY TIMES THIS YEAR, past and present parent mentors have hopped on a bus to Springfield to lobby legislators on immigration reform. NEED A LITTLE MORE HERE“We're speaking out and being heard and not being afraid,” Bedillo said. “We're not just parents now. Were being heard as a group and working together.”After that, came back and was speaking more passionately.Gloria already had associates degree. Benefits mothers as much as students. many gone on to get bachelors degrees and become teachers in the community. Feeds into Grow Your Own,HeadBedillo said she initially decided to join the mentor because her daughter, a 7th-grader, was nervous about attending the new school which she heard had a lot of fighting and bullying, rumors that later proved to be unfounded. Parents receive xx hours of training over xx weeks before they are each assigned to a classrooms two hours a day Monday through Thursday. Bedillo assigned to a math class and then a science class, helps all students but particularly those who are still learning English. QUOTE FROM TEACHER ABOUT WHY THIS IS HELPFULIdea is to make parents realize that they can be part of school. in mexico, not welcome.Bedillo is from Puerto Rico, immigrated to Chicago at three and grew up in Spanish-speaking household. Graduated from St. Augustine college with an associates degree in social services and worked as a substance abuse counselor until 2008. Never been active in school before. When her daughter went to Nixon, didn’t have those opportunities. NEED TRANSITION.Comfort of group, started speaking up. went to principal. Got ids. Then chosen for no child left behind, also on local school counsel.now that I got involved as a parent mentor at my ds school ive felt the need to get more inv and more invRecruited to do extra work for modest hourly wage. Part of elev8 programs. Ames part of elev8 program, extra funds to do truant outreach—phones disconnected and many parents don’t realize kids not in school. money also for literacy ambassadors.Recently she and her daughter visited another neighbor and read about seeds. Youngest participant in 5th grade, the oldest his grandmother. Xx said bedillo’s daughter, who also went along.Role models for their kidsBedillo’s daughter said she was worried when her mother was going to volunteer, meant they would walk to school together each morning. thought she was going to embarrass me. Surprised to find that her friends thought her mom was actually pretty cool. Now she’s motivated. Also part of the Elev8 program where afterschool tutoring raised her math grade c TO A. mother also able to help out more, with parent mentor traning. huge confidence boost. Set her sites on selective high school marine biology. mother as an inspiration.The award-winning program was launched xx years ago and now operates at nine neighborhood schools including Ames. Since its founding, LSNA has trained over xx parents to mentor struggling students in the classroom. But mentorship is just the beginning. The program trains parents, mainly Hispanic women, to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities. It also recruits them to serve in a variety of additional roles at the school from safety patrol to neighborhood book group leader.Gloria quotesThe more I get involved with my daughters school the more I want to participate, the more I want to be involved.Speaking out. To the needs that I see that we need. And not being afraid. Speakingout and being heard. Safe place to do that. I see solutions and bepeople workingwith it. We'rebeingheard. Wer'not just parents now. Were beingheard as a group and working together.encouraging them to become leaders in their schools and politically active in their communities.

 

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder met with members of the North Charleston Police Department, Charleston Farms Community, and a program participant in the department's innovative program S.T.A.N.D. (Stop and Take A New Direction).

Attorney General Holder heard first hand how the program, which focused on not just arresting low level narcotics dealers with little or no prior criminal history but to go a step further and help those involved in the activity change their lives for the better, has changed the lives of several participants and improved the quality of life in the neighborhood. AG Holder praised the department for "thinking outside of the box" in crime reduction strategies and for its community involvement.

Of the original eight (8) participants accepted in to the program, four completed the program, maintain full time employment and continue to be productive citizens. The project was broadcast nationwide last year on Dateline NBC.

 

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A large bearded tooth fungus grows on the base of a tree trunk at the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art near Millersburg, Pa., on Oct. 28, 2016. Fungi play a major role in regenerating the forest by digesting fallen trees and plant matter, effectively recycling the nutrients back into the soil. (Photo by Leslie Boorhem-Stephenson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

 

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Pedestrians respond to tidal flooding driven by strong winds in downtown Annapolis, Md., on Oct. 24, 2017. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

 

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This week in 1978, space shuttle Enterprise underwent a Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Test at NASA Marshall Space Flight Center’s Dynamic Test Stand. The test marked the first time all shuttle elements -- an orbiter, external tank and two solid rocket boosters -- were vertically mated. The test verified that the shuttle performed as expected in its launch configuration. The first shuttle mission launched in April 1981, and for the next 30 years the program’s five spacecraft carried people into orbit repeatedly, allowing crew to launch, recover and repair satellites, conduct cutting-edge research and build the largest structure in space, the International Space Station.

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Chesapeake City, Md., on April 30, 2010.

 

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May 10, 2005

 

Fitness Without Frills (No Men Allowed)

By JANE E. BRODY

 

With the surgeon general urging Americans to do at least 30 minutes a day of moderately vigorous exercise to improve their health, and with some 60 percent of adults doing little or none, a program attractive enough to prompt millions of otherwise sedentary women to get out and "just do it" certainly seems worthy of praise.

 

Considering the rapid growth of Curves, a privately owned no-frills fitness company that claims more than 8,000 franchises here and abroad, the concept is a winner. There is now one Curves outlet for every two McDonald's in this country, and in LaCrosse, Wis., where two researchers recently studied what the program's participants can expect to achieve, the ratio is reversed: two Curves for every one McD's.

 

Curves outlets are spartan, nothing like high-end fitness salons that can be off-putting to the less-than-fit and too costly to the economically stretched. There are no mirrors, showers or locker rooms. And no men. The organization does not seem to attract highly competitive fitness buffs who may intimidate an out-of-shape woman in her 50's or 60's.

 

Three or more times a week, millions of women visit Curves outlets and work out for about half an hour. They spend 30 seconds on each of 12 strength-building resistance machines interspersed by 30 seconds of aerobic activity (stationary jogging, marching or walking) to keep heart rates high.

 

Two complete circuits, done to musical tapes that signal each station change, take 25 minutes, plus 5 minutes to cool down and stretch. It's a time interval that many find they can comfortably fit into their lives. And there is a strong social component at most centers, with friends and acquaintances chatting about subjects from recipes to politics.

 

Once a month, the participants have the option to be weighed and measured, and nutritional guidance is available for those who want it. But no data have been published yet on just what the women accomplish over time, or how many stick with the program long enough to become significantly slimmer or fitter.

 

A 14-week Curves-sponsored study at Baylor University in Waco, Tex., suggests that those who stick with the exercise program and follow a balanced reduced-calorie diet can lose weight and maintain the loss. The results may not be typical, since study subjects are often more motivated than the average participant to stick with the program. Still, for women previously sedentary or minimally active, any progress toward fitness is significant whether or not they lose much, if any, weight.

 

How Well Does It Work?

 

The Wisconsin study was commissioned by the American Council on Exercise, a group known as ACE that certifies exercise professionals and acts as an unofficial consumer advocate. The researchers, Dr. John Porcari, a professor of exercise and sports science at the University of Wisconsin at LaCrosse, and Kristin Greany, a registered dietitian and an adjunct professor at the university, recruited 15 healthy women ages 26 to 55 from two local Curves outlets.

 

Before going through the Curves circuit, the women were tested on a treadmill to assess their base line levels of aerobic endurance. Then they were fitted with heart monitors and metabolic analyzers to measure heart rate, oxygen consumption and calories burned in the workout.

 

The researchers found that the total 30-minute workout burned an average of 184 calories, a surprise to many participants who thought they were expending perhaps 500 calories, Dr. Porcari said in an interview. At the actual rate of caloric burn, without any change in diet it would take 19 workouts to lose one pound.

 

Based on the three-times-a-week workout alone, then, "it is impossible to lose up to 60 pounds in a year, as has been claimed," Dr. Porcari said. "The women who do lose a lot of weight may be making other lifestyle changes as well."

 

Indeed, Ms. Greany said, "in informal conversations, I learned that many Curves participants felt motivated to do something about their diets, and those who did lost a considerable amount of weight."

 

Marlys Ostrand, 70, who joined a Curves in Scandia, Minn., three years ago with a group of friends, said that in her two years in the group, she got stronger and lost 15 pounds "I guess because I watched my diet a little more carefully." Although she had to drop out of the program because of a hip injury, she has maintained the weight loss.

 

As for fitness improvement, the Wisconsin study rated Curves "a moderate-intensity workout, similar to walking four miles an hour for 30 minutes on a flat treadmill." Unlike brisk walking, the Curves program works various parts of the body - arms, shoulders, torso and legs. It "is likely to be more of a total-body exercise," the researchers reported in the current ACE Fitness Matters.

 

Ms. Greany said that if women did the workout three times a week, they could expect to increase strength, cardiovascular fitness and, if they did the stretching, flexibility as well.

 

"The results overall were very positive," Dr. Porcari told the ACE journal. "People get their heart rates up into the training zone and they get the benefits of strength training, too, which you don't get from walking."

 

Susan Levy, 62, of Brooklyn, a longtime exercise walker and a former runner, joined Curves about 15 months ago in an awful winter when ice and snow kept her from too many of her daily walks around the park.

 

"I felt I needed something more," she said. And she said she got it: "a congenial, pleasant workout with women of all ages, sizes, shapes, fatnesses, levels of fitness and a real ethnic mix." As someone who is not competitive - "I'm not trying to get better or faster at it" - and who's not the type to join a regular gym, Mrs. Levy said, "It's fine for me, and I sort of like it."

 

She said she could continue to participate in Curves workouts even on vacations by getting passes from her local franchise to use elsewhere.

 

A Commercial Endeavor

 

Curves, like other commercial endeavors, has its critics. The company, based in Waco, has a strong spiritual component, though this is not necessarily foisted on participants.

 

Like other companies, Curves, founded and owned by Gary Heavin, has developed some branded products, including workout shoes and vitamin supplements.

 

Ms. Greany said that "because Curves offers a strong social component and is so accessible, adherence is probably a little better than you'd find in other fitness programs." She noted: "The social component is good in moderation, though occasionally the women get distracted by conversation and don't work out as hard as they should. But if it keeps them coming back, it may be worth it."

 

Over all, she said, "Curves is niche-filling for women who haven't done any physical activity and probably are unlikely to do any on their own."

 

The program has a joining fee ($150, sometimes reduced or waived during promotions) and a variable monthly fee ($29 to $69 is a typical range), in line with fees at many Y's, which are far better equipped.

 

Some employers and insurers offset the cost for participants, though there is a general belief in the industry that people who pay for fitness programs out of their own pockets are more likely to stick with them.

 

Jane E. Brody can be reached at personalhealth@nytimes.com.

 

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Eighth-grader Alexius Pierce made the go-ahead layup in the game's last minute, and junior Diamonne Harris hit four straight free throws in the final 10 seconds as the Syracuse Academy of Science held off Allegany-Limestone, 55-50, in a Class C girls basketball state semifinal at Hudson Valley Community College.

 

The Section III-champion Atoms (20-4) will play in the 8-year-old program's first state final at 4 p.m. Saturday against Section IX champion Millbrook.

 

"It feels unbelievable," said Harris, who led all scorers with 20 points. "We worked so hard - day after day - it was all worth it. It feels so good."

 

"We just willed our way (to the win), said senior leader Lyrik Jackson, who scored 14 points, grabbed eight rebounds and made five steals for the Atoms. "Coach said keep pushing. We didn't want to go home."

 

SAS, which trailed by six points at the half (32-26) sparked its second-half offense with a pressing defense that forced Allegany-Limestone into 22 turnovers and yielded a dozen steals.

 

The #SASAtoms also held Gators' star senior center Morgan Davis to 14 points, about five below her season's average. Morgan only had six in the second half.

 

"Amazing. Just amazing," said #SASCS head coach Reggie Pickard. "I'm still kind of dreaming - like are we here or not, you know? We're doing everything possible to win a championship. We've worked hard for eight years, and here we are."

 

The Atoms trailed by as many as eight points late in the second quarter but caught the Gators just two minutes into the third using a press that started paying off in turnovers.

 

"Our pressure has been the key for us all year," Pickard said. "We force turnovers, make the game kind of ugly.

I thought if we pressured a little more in the second half it would harder for them to get the ball to their bigs."

 

Allegany-Limestone, from Section VI near Olean, still led by two at the start of the fourth quarter, but SAS sophomore Xyel Bradford's 3-pointer put the Atoms ahead, 41-40, with just under 7 minutes left. Pierce hit another huge three with 2:30 left to play that gave SAS a 47-46 advantage.

 

But the Gators continued to make big baskets, too, and Allegany-Limestone had a 50-49 lead, and the ball, with just under a minute left to play.

 

On the in-bounds play, Harris dove for a steal and somehow got the ball to Pierce, who drove in for what would turn out to be the winning points, making it 51-50, Atoms.

 

The Gators began fouling, but Harris proved worthy against the pressure, hitting two sets for free throws in the final eight seconds.

 

"It was very nerve-wracking, but we do this all of the time in practice," she said. "I have to stay calm."

 

Allegany-Limestone coach Frank Martin said his team just couldn't quite hold it together in the final minutes against the SAS quickness.

 

"I'd love to have the last minute and a half back," he said. "We weren't as good as we needed to be to close this game out. We just weren't as good as we needed to be at the end."

 

The Atoms had a scare in the final seconds when Jackson took a shot to her head when she went down chasing a loose ball and an Allegany-Limestone player fell on top of her. She had to be helped off the court but was up and talking in the aftermath.

 

Harris said she hoped to go swimming in the hotel pool later in the day, but her coach wasn't hearing it.

 

No, no. We're not going to do any swimming," he said, laughing. "Too much muscle movement. They got mad at me last night because I took their phones from them. I'm doing that again tonight, too."

 

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Jerry Hassinger tries to identify a fungus on the trunk of a tree at the Ned Smith Center for Nature and Art near Millersburg, Pa., on Oct. 28, 2016. Hassinger is retired from the Pennsyvlania Game Commission and a volunteer at the Center. (Photo by Leslie Boorhem-Stephenson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

 

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20170516GraduationCapGownFrederickRoyster

 

Major: Interdisciplinary Studies, Concentration in Education, Minor in Special Education

 

Henderson Nc

  

What is your best memory of WSSU?

 

My best memory of WSSU would be Homecoming! All the support, love and positive energy from alumni, students, faculty and staff is amazing! Seeing thousands of people coming together, bring their kids and relatives to brag about how awesome WSSU is priceless. To celebrate this wonderful institution through donations, attendance at athletic events as well as fellowshipping on the yard is phenomenal!

 

What do you love about WSSU?

 

The one thing I love about WSSU is the family oriented vibe I receive from not only the faculty and staff, but also from the students? There is not a moment that goes by each and every day where I do not see the genuine vibe and care our students have for one another. Wither it is student leaders encouraging other students to get more involved with student activities or students coming together to walk to the football or basketball games to support athletics or senate meetings, together we act as one.

 

What do you plan on doing after you graduate?

 

My plans after graduation are to further my education to receive my masters in the field of education. With this goal I plan to teach at a Title 1 school in the Forsyth County region to help leave a legacy in the community of Winston Salem and embrace my love and the importance of my HBCU.

 

How has WSSU prepared you for the future?

 

Being that WSSU is a Liberal Arts Institution is has prepared me with the knowledge and skill set in different content areas where I will be able to use that background knowledge and the fundamental skill set to adapt to any job I come across in the future in life.

 

How has WSSU made a difference in your life?

 

WSSU has made a huge difference in my life. Getting involved in different organizations such as Greek Life, Housing and Resident Life and Student Government Association has taught me to believe in myself. Getting involved in campus life has developed my communication and social skills. It has taught me how important your personal brand is and taught me the importance of networking and getting out of my comfort zone. If I did not have individuals at this this institution to push and help motivate me, I would have never revealed my full potential. And for that I am proud to be an alum of the Winston Salem State University!

Agricultural land near the Choptank River in Talbot County, Md., on June 18, 2010. (Photo by Matt Rath/Chesapeake Bay Program)

 

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A carp among a bed of bay grasses in Poplar Harbor, Maryland

 

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This image is of the 1954 Tournament of Roses parade program's cover. Printed on the cover is "Pasadena Tournament of Roses" "Famous Books in Flowers" "1954 * Official Program" "50₵."

 

January 1954

 

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Marion Karl poses with her dog Leila at the top of a hill on her property in Cooperstown, N.Y., on May 21, 2015. The hill is part of Karl’s 173 acres in a conservation easement, and she hikes to it almost daily to take in a view of Otsego Lake. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

 

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Kim Miller, Hampton Roads organizer for Mothers Out Front, leads a community strategy session about climate change in the YMCA of the Tidewater Gardens community in Norfolk, Va. Mothers Out Front is a volunteer lead organization that empowers women with training, coaching and ideas to move their communities and states from dirty to clean energy. (Photo by Skyler Ballard/Chesapeake Bay Program)

 

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The Nature Conservancy hosts a group of roughly 30 visitors for a vernal pool hike at Forest Pools Preserve, adjacent to Kings Gap State Park in Cumberland County, Pa., on March 25, 2016. Because vernal pools, or seasonal wetlands, dry up every year, they don't harbor fish and thus are critical habitat for many amphibian species. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

 

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ROMA ARCHEOLOGICA & RESTAURO ARCHITETTURA 2021: Fango - Fango - Fango. Un Colosseo sconosciuto e affascinante scoperto a Volterra, Italia. Notizie e progressi dell'incredibile scoperta e l'eccellente documentazione degli scavi (2015-21). Fonte: Prof.ssa Elena Sorge, L'Anfiteatro Che Non C'era / Fb (Sett. e Ott. 2021) & Dott.ssa Antonia Falcone (2021), e altre notizie e risorse archeologiche in italiano e inglese. [Italiano / English]. wp.me/pbMWvy-22a

 

Foto: Anfiteatro di Volterra / Video; in: ArchaeoReporter (2020-2021).

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1). VOLTERRA / TUSCANY, ITALY— Colosseum Discovered in Volterra, Italy. Archaeology Magazine, USA (12 Nov. 2015).

 

Foto: VOLTERRA (Si). Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano. ArcheoMedia (13/11/2015).

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A Roman amphitheater thought to date to the first century A.D. has been discovered in the town of Volterra, once a well-known Etruscan city that fell under Roman rule. “It’s puzzling that no historical account records the existence of such an imposing amphitheater. Possibly it was abandoned at a certain time and gradually covered by vegetation,” archaeologist Elena Sorge of the Tuscan Superintendency told Discovery News.

 

Foto: VOLTERRA (Si). Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano / Video; in: ArchaeoReporter (2020-21).

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“This amphitheater was quite large. Our survey dig revealed three orders of seats that could accommodate about 10,000 people. They were entertained by gladiator fights and wild beast baiting,” Sorge explained. A survey conducted with ground-penetrating radar by Carlo Battini of the University of Genoa indicates that much of the amphitheater, which was constructed of stone in the same manner as the nearby theater, is under 20 to 32 feet of dirt.

 

Foto: VOLTERRA (Si). Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano / Video; in: ArcheoMedia & ArchaeoReporter (2020-21).

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Fonte / source:

--- Archaeology Magazine, USA (12 Nov. 2015).

www.archaeology.org/news/3876-151112-italy-volterra-amphi...

 

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Foto: VOLTERRA (Si). Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano / Video; in: ArchaeoReporter (2020-21).

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L’anfiteatro romano di Volterra (2020-21); in: Facebook & Instagram (10/2021).

 

Foto: VOLTERRA (Si). Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano / Video; in: ArcheoMedia & ArchaeoReporter (2020-21)

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Foto: Prof.ssa Elena Sorge (a cura di), Volterra, L’Anfiteatro Che Non C’era / Facebook (10/2021).

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--- Prof.ssa Elena Sorge (a cura di), Volterra, L'Anfiteatro Che Non C'era / Facebook (10/2021).

Questa pagina nasce per rimanere in costante aggiornamento sulla scoperta dell'anfiteatro di Volterra.

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Foto: Prof.ssa Elena Sorge (a cura di), Volterra, L’Anfiteatro Che Non C’era / Facebook (10/2021).

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Foto: Prof.ssa Elena Sorge (a cura di), Volterra, L’Anfiteatro Che Non C’era / Facebook (10/2021).

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--- Prof. Elena Sorge (ed.), Volterra, the lost Roman Amphitheatre. Five years of excavations, 2015-21. Facebook (10/2021).

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Foto: Prof. Elena Sorge (ed.), Anfiteatro Romano – Profilo ufficiale dell’Anfiteatro di Volterra / Instragram (10/2021).

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--- Prof. Elena Sorge (ed.), Anfiteatro Romano - Profilo ufficiale dell'Anfiteatro di Volterra / Instragram (10/2021).

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Foto: Dott.ssa Antonia Falcone, Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano (2021). Archeologa e Blogger / Founder @ProfessioneArcheologo / Instagram (10/2021).

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--- Dott.ssa Antonia Falcone, Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano (2021). Archeologa e Blogger / Founder @ProfessioneArcheologo / Instagram (10/2021). www.instagram.com/archeoantonia/

 

Nota: Un ringraziamento molto speciale alla Dott.ssa Antonia Falcone che ha avuto la gentilezza di segnalarmi i significativi scavi presso il L'anfiteatro Romano Volterra (09/2021).

 

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Foto: SCOPERTE E SCAVI – VOLTERRA (Si). Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano. ArcheoMedia (13/11/2015).

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2). SCOPERTE E SCAVI - VOLTERRA (Si). Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano. ArcheoMedia (13/11/2015).

 

Un anfiteatro romano è stato scoperto nella città di Volterra, una città etrusca ben nota che cadde sotto il dominio romano nel I secolo a.C.

“E ‘sconcertante che nessun racconto storico registri l’esistenza di una tale imponente anfiteatro. Forse è stato abbandonato in un determinato momento e gradualmente ricoperto dalla vegetazione”, dice l’archeologa Elena Sorge della Soprintendenza toscana a Discovery News.

“Questo anfiteatro era abbastanza grande. La nostra indagine ha rivelato tre ordini di posti che potevano ospitare circa 10.000 persone. Sono stati fatti combattimenti di gladiatori e adescamento di animali selvaggi – dice Sorge. “Un sondaggio condotto con un radar da Carlo Battini dell’Università degli Studi di Genova ha indicato che gran parte dell’anfiteatro, che è stato costruito in pietra nello stesso modo come il vicino teatro, è sotto terra da 20 a 32 piedi di spessore.”

 

Il Colosseo a Volterra scoperta del secolo?

Stavano scavando per realizzare un’opera di bonifica vicino a Porta Diana, a sud della necropoli etrusca. A un certo punto la pala meccanica, tolto un primo strato di terra, urta una fila di grossi ciottoli ammonticchiati verso la collinetta del cimitero comunale. I lavori si fermano subito e qualcuno tra i responsabili del cantiere si mette a ripulire con le mani il terriccio che ancora copre quello che sembra essere un manufatto antico. Un gesto istintivo e prudente. Da queste parti, a Volterra e dintorni, quando si scava è facile imbattersi in reperti dell’età del ferro, etruschi, romani o medievali, e conviene bloccarsi al minimo sospetto. È così che sono affiorati i primi tratti di un muro, una ventina di metri, che qualche giorno dopo, con l’intervento della Soprintendenza ai beni archeologici della Toscana, appare con nitore in tutta la sua forma facendo sobbalzare il responsabile dell’ufficio, Andrea Pessina e il sindaco Marco Buselli.

Si tratterebbe infatti di una scoperta unica nel suo genere: un arco ellittico lungo ottanta metri che lascia presupporre l’esistenza in quel sito di un edificio pubblico di origini romane adibito, probabilmente, a giochi gladiatori. La struttura, peraltro, assomiglia molto al Teatro di Vallebona, dell’epoca di Augusto, che sorge dall’altra parte della città. Bisogna scavare di più, ora, per fare emergere il resto di questo “piccolo Colosseo”, che si nasconderebbe ancora sotto terra. I finanziamenti sono stati promessi. E il “museo a cielo aperto” di Volterra si arricchirà, speriamo presto, di un altro prezioso gioiello. Una prova di civiltà.

 

Fonte / source:

--- ArcheoMedia (13/11/2015); S.v., Archaeology Magazine, USA (12 Nov. 2015).

www.archeomedia.net/volterra-si-scoperto-lanfiteatro-romano/

 

Foto: SCOPERTE E SCAVI – VOLTERRA (Si). Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano. ArcheoMedia (13/11/2015).

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3). SCOPERTE E SCAVI - VOLTERRA (Pi). L’anfiteatro romano. ArcheoMedia (27/11/2020).

 

L’anfiteatro romano di Volterra nel 2015 era “L’Anfiteatro che non c’era”, una sorta di claim pubblicitario che campeggia ora sulla vivacissima e seguita pagina Facebook dello scavo archeologico. Non c’era perchè nessuno ne sospettava neppure l’esistenza: nessuna fonte antica, nessun reperto riconosciuto, nessun sospetto che un edificio mastodontico giacesse silenzioso da forse oltre 1600 anni, in una vallecola verde di erba, di ortaggi e alberi da frutto a poca distanza dalla necropoli etrusca del Portone, con le cosiddette tombe dei Marmini.

Questa necropoli è, di fatto, la “fornitrice” di una gran parte del materiale conservato al museo Guarnacci, uno dei più antichi d’Europa. Un’area scavata dall’Ottocento in poi e non certo ignorata da generazioni di archeologi, di ricerche, di sopralluoghi.

Benchè poco più a sud del teatro romano di Vallebuona, la cui scoperta risale agli anni ’50 del XX secolo, e poco più a nord della Porta Diana, questo lacerto bucolico nell’area urbana di Volterra sembrava solo un vasto terreno collinare di fianco al cimitero, quello moderno, senza nessuna traccia visibile anche ad occhio esperto. E neppure i simpatici signori che si affacciavano dalla loro casa verso la vallata dell’Era, breve e vivace fiume che si butta in Arno, avevano mai sospettato che la loro scoscesa proprietà potesse nascondere una delle più importanti scoperte dell’archeologia classica recente in Italia.

Eppure, proprio le acque che poi finiscono nell’Era, avevano deciso di fare la loro parte nella scoperta. Il regime torrentizio del fiume è alimentato da quelle che gli arrivano veloci dai poggi soprastanti. Per tenerle sotto controllo da secoli i fossi e i torrenti più o meno regolati, che qui chiamano botri, sono essenziali. Il deflusso idrico dal colle di Volterra si era ridotto troppo a seguito di una serie di frane dovute al maltempo, e il Consorzio Idraulico del Basso Valdarno nell’estate del 2015 aveva iniziato i lavori di ripristino. E qui, per fortuna, scatta il buonsenso dell’archeologia preventiva, sotto il controllo della Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pisa (Sorge, 2016, p.249).

Il botro di Docciola fluiva attraverso un argine malmesso, dove l’acqua aveva scoperto un muro in panchino, la pietra che rappresenza l’essenza stessa della città, la spina dorsale dei suoi edifici. Una decina di metri in tutto, ma non dritti, curvi. E non molto curvi, una cosa appena accennata. Poi altri 7 metri, un po’ curvi. Poi altri 20 metri, ancora curvi. Insomma, un totale di 42 metri, manco a dirlo, tutti curvi.

“Sta a vedere che… Va beh, proviamo sulla parte opposta della vallecola…”. Ed ecco un altro saggio di scavo, e ancora due spezzoni murari. Non vi diciamo che aspetto avevano, avete già indovinato. Insomma, a settembre 2015 era chiaro che la struttura fosse ellittica, gigantesca, e appartenente (per tipologie murarie) a un edificio pubblico di epoca romana. Insomma, se due più due faceva ancora quattro, un edificio con ellittico con un asse di 87 metri ed uno di 68 non poteva che essere un anfiteatro. L’anfiteatro che non c’era. E che ad un lustro di distanza c’è eccome, e non smette di riservare grosse sorprese. Ecco il motivo per cui abbiamo scelto di raccontare i primi cinque anni di questa indagine archeologica nel primo videoreportage di ArchaeoReporter.

La sorpresa arriva in un altro settembre, quello del 2020, alle 15 del primo giorno. Il buco che si apre è quello tipico di una tana di un animale, magari un comune topo. Elena Sorge, l’archeologa della soprintendenza che si culla il suo scavo fin dal primo giorno, sa che bisogna procedere con prudenza comunque, come lo sanno i suoi collaboratori. Infatti il foro si allarga, poi ancora, s’intravvede un arco perfettamente conservato. Arriva una torcia elettrica, e si fa fatica a scrutare il fondo: è una galleria perfettamente conservata, almeno fin dove s’intuiscono possibili crolli più avanti. Serviva per portare gli spettatori da un ordine dell’anfiteatro all’altro.

 

Foto: VOLTERRA (Si). Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano / Video; in: ArcheoMedia & ArchaeoReporter (2020-21)

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Quando nella prima settimana di settembre 2020 è apparso il sistema di ambulacri sotterranei, ben conservati (che verranno esplorati nel 2021, con l’aiuto dei vigili del fuoco di Pisa), si è aggiunto un altro tassello importante alla compensione del monumento. E questo vale anche per la scoperta del cuniculo circumpodiale, ossia il corridoio provvisto di volta che circondava l’arena. Ancora più recente la scoperta del corridoio voltato che circondava l’arena, con probabili funzioni di servizio per gladiatori, addetti ai servizi e forse anche le belve per gli spettacoli (Sorge, 2020). Da ultimo, appare evidente come sotto l’arena stessa si trovi un altro sistema sotterraneo, che si dovrà valutare con quali funzioni con il proseguimento degli scavi. Ci si può forse aspettare, ma qui mi gioco la carta della scommessa più che dell’ipotesi, un sistema complesso paragonabile ad anfiteatri tipo quello di Capua.

Ce n’è comunque abbastanza ritenere il monumento come un privilegiato campo d’azione da cui ricavare preziosi dati, soprattutto da mettere in confronto con altri edifici analoghi ancora solo parzialmente indagati. Una pietra angolare per la ricerca archeologica legata agli edifici pubblici romani in Italia

Nota tecnica: Lo scavo è diretto da Elena Sorge, funzionario della Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Pisa, con a collaborazione di professionisti, tecnici dell’Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Cuturale del CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), studiosi dell’Università degli Studi di Firenze e di Pisa e della Detroit Foundation. Nel 2020 è eseguito da Cooperativa Archeologia.

Nota sui Finanziamenti: tra i primi a finanziare gli scavi la Fondazione e la Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra; poi la Direzione Generale Archeologia; il Comune di Volterra che ha acquisito e reso di proprietà pubblica il terreno dell’area di scavo; la Regione Toscana e i finanziamenti legati al concorso Art Bonus.

22 novembre 2020: ci segnalano cortesemente che negli ultimi 50 anni in effetti in Italia è stato scavato (e pubblicato) anche l’anfiteatro di Cividate Camuno, scoperto nel 1984 assieme al teatro (e non è l’unico soggetto di ricerca, agggiungiamo). Senz’altro diverso come “impatto”, non paragonabile come stato di conservazione e dimensioni, ma molto importante per gettare luce sui processi della presenza romana nell’arco alpino.

 

BIBLIOGRAFIA / REFERENCES

– Battini, C. and Sorge, E. (2016). Dynamic Management of Survey Data and Archaeological Excavation. The Case Study of the Amphitheatre of Volterra. Scientific Research and Information Technology Vol. 6, Issue 2 pp. 119-132

– Brothers, A.J. (1989). Buildings for Entertainment. In Barton, J.M, Roman Public Buindings. Exeter: University of Exeter Press, pp.97-125

– Sorge, E. (2016). La scoperta dell’Anfiteatro di Volterra. Notiziario della Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana 11/2015, Saggi (p. 241-276). Firenze: All’Insegna del Giglio

– Sorge, E. (2020) L’Anfiteatro che non c’era: la scoperta, lo scavo e la valorizzazione dell’anfiteatro romano di Volterra. Internal Report. Unpublished in november 2020.

 

Fonte / source:

--- SCOPERTE E SCAVI - VOLTERRA (Pi). L’anfiteatro romano. ArcheoMedia (27/11/2020).

www.archeomedia.net/volterra-pi-lanfiteatro-romano/

 

Foto: Anfiteatro di Volterra / Video (18 Novembre 2020 – 22 Dicembre 2020); In: ArchaeoReporter (10/10/2021).

www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/51573195955

 

--- Anfiteatro di Volterra / Video (18 Novembre 2020 - 22 Dicembre 2020); In: ArchaeoReporter (10/10/2021).

www.archaeoreporter.com/tag/anfiteatro-di-volterra/

 

Foto: Volterra, the lost Roman Amphitheatre. Five years of excavations, a VIDEO DOCUMENTARY (English subtitles). ArchaeoReporter (18 November 2020). www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/51572957294/

 

4). "Volterra, the lost Roman Amphitheatre. Five years of excavations, a VIDEO DOCUMENTARY (English subtitles). ArchaeoReporter (18 November 2020).

 

For five years, excavations have been underway in the ‘lost’ Roman amphitheatre of Volterra. ArchaeoReporter could not have chosen a better location for its first story. The report features aerial images taken with a drone, as well as close-ups of the site, which was discovered in 2015 and continuously challenges what is known about classical archaeology. The amphitheatre was once home to fierce gladiators and gruesome battles, but more importantly it is considered to be a symbol of the romanisation of Etruria. Elena Sorge, the scientific director at the Archaeological Superintendence of Pisa and Livorno [Officially: Soprintendenza archeologica di Pisa e Livorno], guides us through the work site, where archaeological investigations and restoration efforts are carried out simultaneously, unearthing new findings month after month. 2020 has marked the discovery of the underground passageways and tunnels, as well as of the vaulted corridor, coins and other finds that are critical for dating the site, which is currently thought to come from the Julio-Claudian era.

 

--- Volterra, the lost Amphitheatre - (Italian with English subtitles - Audio enhanced) / You-Tube; in: ArchaeoReporter (14 Dec. 2020) [14:25]. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxaCdXHGA9Y

 

This discovery was actually made by accident during the maintenance work being carried out on a moat previously excavated in the 1950s. It is a small, rapid stream of water flowing down the Volterra hill, right behind Porta Diana and a little downhill from the Roman theatre. The Superintendence has entrusted the monitoring of the area to professional archaeologists, a typical example of preventive archaeology. It is important to remember that in many excavation sites there is an archaeological risk. It really says a lot that, in Italy, being able to learn about and enhance one’s own land is considered to be a risk, instead of a potential source of valuable research, both in archaeology and in other fields of study. In short, the wall discovered in July, 2015, has a slightly accentuated curve, which is indicative of something unconventional, together with the fact that the construction technique is similar to that of the theatre from the Augustan age.

 

--- Anfiteatro di Volterra, in "diretta" dallo scavo archeologico 2021 - Prima puntata. ArchaeoReporter (09/10/2021) [15:50].

www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGLrtQsmI3A

 

Technical note: The archaeological site is supervised by Elena Sorge, a member of Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio di Pisa, in collaboration with Istituto di Scienze del Patrimonio Culturale – CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), University of Firenze and University of Pisa, and with Detroit Foundation.

 

Fonte / source:

--- ArchaeoReporter (18 November 2020).

www.archaeoreporter.com/en/2020/11/18/volterra-roman-amph...

 

5). L'Anfiteatro di Volterra: le scoperte dello scavo archeologico più sbalorditivo del 2020. Finestre sull'Arte (29/12/2020).

 

Verrà ricordato come lo scavo archeologico del 2020: l'Anfiteatro di Volterra, scoperto nel 2015, è stato scavato approfonditamente a partire dal 2019 e quest'anno ha rivelato scoperte eccezionali.

Nell’archeologia, il 2020 sarà ricordato probabilmente come l’anno dell’Anfiteatro di Volterra: quest’anno, infatti, la campagna di scavo dell’importantissimo sito archeologico scoperto appena cinque anni fa è ripresa con vigore dando alla luce esiti sorprendenti e inaspettati. Il risultato più eclatante, lo scorso 1° settembre, è stato sicuramente il rinvenimento del sistema di ambulacri sotterranei, finora sepolti nella collina, che in antico gli spettatori utilizzavano, come negli stadi moderni, per raggiungere le gradinate dalle quali assistevano agli spettacoli.

 

Foto: VOLTERRA (Si). Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano / Video; in: ArchaeoReporter (2020-21)

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Nelle settimane successive è stato scoperto anche il corridoio voltato che circondava l’arena, detto “cuniculo circumpodiale”, e che serviva invece ai gladiatori e in generale a coloro che si esibivano nell’arena (era il punto da cui entravano anche le eventuali belve sfruttate per i giochi: non si trattava però di tigri o leoni, animali che si esibivano nelle strutture più grandi in quanto animali di pregio e difficili da far arrivare oltre che da addestrare alla lotta, bensì, con più probabilità, di orsi, lupi o comunque animali più facilmente reperibili).

 

Foto: VOLTERRA (Si). Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano / Video; in: ArchaeoReporter (2020-21)

www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/51572275861

 

Lo scavo è seguito dalla Soprintendenza Archeologia, Belle Arti e Paesaggio delle province di Pisa e Livorno ed è diretto dall’archeologa Elena Sorge: dal 2019 (anno in cui sono cominciate le operazioni) ha potuto contare su finanziamenti per poco più di ottocentomila euro, arrivati grazie al concorso Art Bonus e alla partecipazione della Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra, della Regione Toscana e del Comune di Volterra. Serviranno altri tre milioni per completare lo scavo: ma sono risorse ben investite, perché a Volterra sta emergendo una struttura di eccezionale rilevanza, peraltro ben conservata.

 

Fonte / source:

--- Finestre sull'Arte (29/12/2020).

www.finestresullarte.info/archeologia/anfiteatro-di-volte...

 

Foto: Alla scoperta dell’Anfiteatro di Volterra: tesoro perduto e poi ritrovato. Intoscana / Tv & You-Tube (27/09/2021)

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6). VOLTERRA / CULTURA - Alla scoperta dell’Anfiteatro di Volterra: tesoro perduto e poi ritrovato. Intoscana / Tv & You-Tube (27/10/2021).

 

Apertura straordinaria degli scavi archeologici. Sparito dalle carte e dalle cronache antiche già dal III secolo dopo Cristo, il Teatro riaffiora per un caso fortuito nel 2015.

 

A Volterra una delle scoperte archeologiche più importanti della storia: l’anfiteatro romano. Sparito dalle carte e dalle cronache antiche già dal III secolo dopo Cristo riaffiora per un caso fortuito nel 2015.

 

Da quel momento torna alla luce in tutto il suo splendore “L’Anfiteatro che non c’era” grazie alle ricerche e agli scavi guidati dalla Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio delle province di Pisa e Livorno. Pietra dopo pietra, l’anfiteatro romano con i suoi tre ordini della grande ampiezza di 32 metri per 64 riscrive la storia della Volterra romana come nuovo importante centro del potere imperiale nell’antichità.

 

--- VOLTERRA / CULTURA - Intoscana / Tv & You-Tube (27/10/2021).

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G-_XlKLFxk&t=41s

 

Le celebrazioni della Giornata degli Etruschi 2021 voluta dal Consiglio regionale della Toscana e dedicata alla ricerca, tutela e promozione della cultura e delle origini del territorio toscano non potevano che svolgersi a Volterra che affonda le proprie radici nella civiltà del rame del III millennio avanti Cristo, e si riscopre grazie alle recenti ricerche nella Necropoli delle Colombaie non più solo città delle urne, ma vera città etrusca e grazie all’Anfiteatro Romano come prestigioso centro della Roma antica.

 

Foto: Alla scoperta dell’Anfiteatro di Volterra: tesoro perduto e poi ritrovato. Intoscana / Tv & You-Tube (27/09/2021).

www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/51572957589

 

“Volterra Cantiere Aperto” grazie agli investimenti congiunti di Regione Toscana, Ministero della Cultura, Comune di Volterra, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Volterra e privati che superano in totale i 3 milioni di euro. Un cantiere destinato a durare anni, soprattutto se parliamo degli scavi archeologici dell’Anfiteatro romano, che non resterà per molto di solo appannaggio dei ricercatori, ma si trasformerà già dal 2022 in un sito visitabile in sicurezza.

 

Foto: Alla scoperta dell’Anfiteatro di Volterra: tesoro perduto e poi ritrovato. Intoscana / Tv & You-Tube (27/09/2021).

www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/51572957559

 

Nel servizio le interviste alla professoressa Elena Sorge della Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio delle province di Pisa e Livorno, responsabile degli scavi all’Anfiteatro romano di Volterra, al presidente del Consiglio regionale della Toscana Antonio Mazzeo, al sindaco di Volterra Giacomo Santi e all’assessore alla cultura del Comune di Volterra Dario Danti.

 

Fonte / source:

--- Intoscana / Tv & You-Tube (27/10/2021).

www.intoscana.it/it/dettaglio-video/alla-scoperta-dellanf...

 

Foto: Un viaggio dentro all’anfiteatro che non c’era. QUI NEWS srl / Corriere Della Sera (10/10/2020).

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7). VOLTERRA - Un viaggio dentro all'anfiteatro che non c'era. QUI NEWS srl / Corriere Della Sera (10/10/2021).

 

Foto: Un viaggio dentro all’anfiteatro che non c’era. QUI NEWS srl / Corriere Della Sera (10/10/2020).

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I responsabili dello scavo, guidati da Elena Sorge, hanno realizzato un video all'interno dell'importante scoperta archeologica

 

Foto: Un viaggio dentro all’anfiteatro che non c’era. QUI NEWS srl / Corriere Della Sera (10/10/2020).

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VOLTERRA — Ora che lo scavo all'anfiteatro romano è al sicuro, barricato per l'inverno, l'equipe guidata da Elena Sorge ha pubblicato un video delle gallerie (che potete vedere in fondo all'articolo).

 

--- Il corridoio sotterraneo - l'interno. Immagini dall'interno del corridoio sotterraneo appena scoperto. QUI NEWS srl / Corriere Della Sera (10/10/2021) & Anfiteatro Romano Volterra / You-Tube (10/10/2021) [03:10].

www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJoBr6cQOMY

 

Foto: Un viaggio dentro all’anfiteatro che non c’era. QUI NEWS srl / Corriere Della Sera (10/10/2020).

www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/51572276031

 

"Immagini forti - hanno scritto su Fb - Questo è il video top secret nelle gallerie all'indomani della scoperta. Finora non ci è sembrato opportuno pubblicarlo, soprattutto per non indurre in tentazione curiosi e sconsiderati. Oggi, con le gallerie off limits, chiuse e barricate per proteggerle dai rigori invernali, possiamo pubblicarlo".

 

Foto: Un viaggio dentro all’anfiteatro che non c’era. QUI NEWS srl / Corriere Della Sera (10/10/2020).

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La persona protagonista nel video è il topografo Giorgio Pocobelli del CNR. Le riprese e la regia sono dell'ispettore di cantiere Dario Ceppatelli.

 

Foto: Un viaggio dentro all’anfiteatro che non c’era. QUI NEWS srl / Corriere Della Sera (10/10/2020).

www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/51572276056

 

Fonte / source:

--- QUI NEWS srl / Corriere Della Sera (10/10/2021).

www.quinewsvolterra.it/volterra-viaggio-dentro-anfiteatro...

 

Foto: Documenting the First Amphitheater Discovered in Europe in 150 Years.

The Journal of American Institute of Architects (03 Sept. 2019).

www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/51571462952

 

8). KATHARINE KEANE, "HISTORIC PRESERVATION - Architecture Researchers Help Document First Amphitheater Discovered in Europe in 150 Years. The Journal of American Institute of Architects (03 Sept. 2019).

 

Volterra, Italy - A team from the Volterra-Detroit Foundation, Autodesk, and Case Technologies spent two weeks this spring archiving one of the greatest discoveries on the continent in more than a century.

 

This spring, architecture students, professors, and volunteers associated with the Volterra-Detroit Foundation were offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to travel to Volterra, Italy, to help digitally archive the first ancient amphitheater discovery in Europe in 150 years.

 

It all began in 2015 when a construction team was working to expand a neighborhood cemetery where they "stumbled across the remains of what appeared to be a Roman wall," Tristan Randall, strategic project executive at Autodesk, one of the program's sponsors, tells ARCHITECT. Accustomed to "sudden surprises like this, the workers contacted the local archaeology supervisor, who was able to determine that, underneath the site they were excavating, there were remains of a Roman amphitheater," Randall continues. This amphitheater would turn out to be the first such discovery in Europe in more than a century. "It's not just a once-in-a-lifetime event," he says. "Think—six or seven generations. So this is a privilege and an incredible opportunity."

 

Foto: VOLTERRA (Si). Scoperto l’anfiteatro romano / Video; in: ArcheoMedia & ArchaeoReporter (2020-21)

www.flickr.com/photos/imperial_fora_of_rome/51572957464

 

Over two weeks in April, 13 participants settled into the Etruscan-era town to digitally scan and record the amphitheater, which measures approximately 84 meters (275 feet) long and 66 meters (216 feet) wide, according to Elena Sorge, archaeological superintendent of Tuscany. The structure likely featured three tiers of seating with a 10,000-person capacity, and an access tunnel underneath. This size makes it all the more shocking that the amphitheater was ever lost.

 

"The majority of amphitheaters known today did not have to be 'discovered,' as their remains were at such scale that they were known centuries ago, like [the] Colosseum," explains University of Detroit Mercy professor of architecture and program lead Wladek Fuchs. "As far as I know, there are no studies of the history of discoveries of the amphitheaters, for exactly that reason—that most of them were never completely lost.”

 

Fonte / source:

--- The Journal of American Institute of Architects (03 Sept. 2019).

www.architectmagazine.com/technology/architecture-researc...

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The Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard will present its annual Holiday Show and Sale December 7-10, 2017 in its state-of-the art facility at 224 Western Avenue, Allston, Massachusetts.

  

Nearly seventy artists will present an extraordinary selection of ceramic work in this annual exhibition. From functional dinnerware to sculptural masterpieces, this popular exhibition has something for everyone and attracts several thousand visitors each year. Free cups made by the exhibiting artists will be given away on a first-come, first-served basis during the festive Opening Reception on Thursday, December 7, from 4:00 – 8:00 pm. The Show and Sale continues Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, December 8, 9, and 10, from 10:00 am – 7:00 pm.

Gallery 224, the Ceramics Program’s dedicated exhibition space, will showcase works from artists participating in the Holiday Show and Sale.

The Ceramics Program Show and Sale runs concurrently with the Allston-Brighton Winter Market next door at the Harvard Ed Portal. Artists’ studios nearby at 119 Braintree Street will also be open on Saturday and Sunday for Allston Open Studios.

 

A touchstone for the arts within Barry’s Corner, Allston, the Ceramics Program, Office for the Arts at Harvard provides a creative studio and laboratory study environment for Harvard students, staff, and faculty, as well as designers, artists, scholars, and scientists from the greater Boston, national and international arenas. Courses, workshops, master classes and special events are offered in the program's 15,000-square-foot studio at 224 Western Ave., near the Harvard Stadium in Allston.

 

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Alice Abrams

Natalie Andrew

Bruce Armitage

Pam Baker

Paul Bessette

Jenny Blicharz

Satomi Bol

Rosanna Bonnet

Darrah Bowden

Ann Boyajian

Summer (Min) Chen

Margaret Clark

Sarah de Besche

Angela DeVecchi

Holladay Dickerman

Richard Farrell

Darcie Flanigan

Stuart Gair

Justin Goedde

Pamela Gorgone

Tina Gram

Christine Gratto

Maurisse Gray

Louise Gutheil

Susan R. Hallstein

Marcia Halperin

Rachael Hamilton

Vicki L. Heller

Marek Jacisin

Madeline Johnson

Melinda Jordan

Judy Kanigel

Adria Katz

Mary Kenny

Gretchen Keyworth

Taeeun Kim

Joyce Lamensdorf

Laurie Leuchtenburg

Judy Levin

Gretchen Mamis

Joanna Mark

Cyndi Mason

Zachary Mickelson

Maeve Mueller

Steve Murphy

Julie Nussbaum

Stephanie Osser

Vicki Paret

Jennifer Howe Peace

Maxine Peck

Florence Pénault

Seth Rainville

Crystal Ribich

Carol Rissman

Judy Rosenstein

Mia Saporito

Lucy Scanlon

Gunnel Schmidt

Nancy Shotola

Kathi Tighe

Bernard Toale

Kyla Toomey

Emma Vesey

Lansing Wagner

Miriam Weil

Hiroko Williamson

Pao-Fei Yang Kuo

Trish Youens

Katherine Younger

Joseph Zina

 

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A tableau of roughly 150 indigenous petroglyphs made up to 1,000 years ago appear on Little Indian Rock in the Susquehanna River in Lancaster County, Pa., on Oct. 6, 2020. Made by an Algonquin-speaking group known as the Shenks Ferry people, many petroglyphs on a stretch of the Susquehanna were flooded by dam construction decades ago, but sites like Big and Little Indian Rock are now on the National Register of Historic Places. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

 

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MS ORTAGUS: Hey, everybody. Good morning. So I’m going to bring Brian Hook to the podium here to give a statement, and then he’s going to take your questions. That’s all we’re going to do today. It’s going to be very focused on Iran. And welcome back, Happy post-Labor Day. Great to see all of you.

  

Brian.

  

MR HOOK: Thank you, Morgan. Today, the United States Government is intensifying our maximum pressure campaign against the Islamic Republic of Iran. First, we are announcing a reward of up to $15 million for any person who helps us disrupt the financial operations of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and Qods Force.

  

This offer is being made through the State Department’s Rewards for Justice Program. This program gives individuals an incentive to work with the United States to bring terrorists to justice and to prevent acts of terrorism globally. Rewards for Justice has paid more than $150 million to over 100 people in return for information that either prevented acts of terrorism or brought people to justice. And the program’s motto is: Stop a terrorist, save lives.

  

Today’s announcement is historic. It’s the first time that the United States has offered a reward for information that disrupts a government entity’s financial operations. We have taken this step because the IRGC operates more like a terrorist organization than it does a government. The IRGC and the Qods Force were designated as a foreign terrorist organization in April, and this put them in the same category as many of the terrorist groups that they actively support, such as Hizballah and Hamas.

  

The IRGC trains, funds, and equips proxy organizations across the Middle East. Iran wants these groups to extend the borders of the regime’s revolution and sow chaos and sectarian violence. We are using every available diplomatic and economic tool to disrupt these operations.

  

In addition to announcing individual rewards of up to $15 million against the IRGC and the Qods Force, the United States today is also taking sweeping action against an IRGC/QF oil-for-terror network. The IRGC has been running an illicit petroleum shipping network over the last several months. This network has moved hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of illicit oil. That money is then used to fund terrorism.

  

In recent months, the shipping network used more than a dozen tankers to export nearly 10 million barrels of crude oil, largely to Syria to support Assad. These shipments sold for more than half a billion dollars. The Department of the Treasury today designated more than 25 entities and individuals and 11 vessels involved in this shipping network. The names of these entities and vessels are now listed on Treasury’s website. Those who engage in transactions with these entities, individuals, and vessels are now exposed to U.S. sanctions.

  

Secretary Pompeo has said many times that we will sanction any sanctionable activity, and taking down this shipping network is another example of delivering on that commitment. The actions today follow the recent sanctioning of Chinese firm Zhuhai Zhenrong and its chief executive for importing Iranian oil.

  

The maritime community should be aware that the Qods Force uses deceptive practices to move its illicit cargo. It cloaks the origin of its oil. It falsifies documents. And it hides the location of its vessels by turning off transponders, which violates international maritime law and is a threat to safety on the high seas. Vessels tied to the shipping network have tried to pass Iranian oil off as Iraqi oil. Countless Iranian vessels have gone dark just before delivering illicit cargo to places like Syria and to China. Deception is at the heart of the Qods Force shipping network.

  

Every port operator, ship owner, and management company should steer clear of the targets identified today. The economic and the reputational cost that result from U.S. sanctions are not worth the modest gains of doing business with Iran.

  

The reward I announced earlier gives members of the maritime community a new tool to help us combat Iran’s oil-for-terror network. We urge any person with information that leads to the disruption of Iran’s petroleum shipping network to contact us. You can submit a tip by visiting rewardsforjustice.net.

  

This includes information that leads to disrupting vessels like the Adrian Darya, which was formerly known as the Grace 1. This vessel was released by Gibraltar based on guarantees provided by the Iranian Government that it would not deliver its oil to Syria, which is exactly where it appears to be headed now.

  

Last Friday, the United States Government sanctioned the captain of the Adrian Darya for providing material support to a terrorist organization. The criminal liability and immigration consequences of crewing Iranian tankers are real and not worth the risk.

  

It’s important that we not lose sight of the big picture. Sanctions on Iran are designed to deny the regime revenue to fund its foreign operations and to bring it back to the negotiating table to reach a new and comprehensive deal.

  

I’m happy to take a few questions.

  

MS ORTAGUS: Matt.

  

QUESTION: Hi. Brian, thank you. I’ve got two questions on slightly different things. But first one on the reward, I’m a little confused as to what kind of information you’re looking for from people, because it would seem to me that the U.S. intelligence community already has enough information to disrupt IRGC finances. I mean, what could the average person – I mean, if they lived in Gibraltar or something, they open their window and see an Iranian-flagged ship, they can call and get 15 – or maybe get $15 million? What kind of information could you imagine would be rewardable?

  

And then secondly, there seems to be concern in the anti-Iran deal crowd that the President is going to be conned by foreign leaders, i.e., the president of France, and a network of deep state actors within this building and the Treasury, that the President is going to be conned into keeping the Iran deal alive. Is that true? Is it this alleged deep state belief that the President is that manipulatable? Thank you.

  

MR HOOK: So let me take the first question. The Rewards for Justice Program, as I said, we’ve had over 100 individuals who have received payments. In total we’ve spent over $150 million. If you go to the website, you can take a look at the program overview, and they give specific examples of people who have given actionable intelligence that has disrupted terrorist operations.

  

We know in the case of Iran and the Qods Force that it uses its oil – the IRGC gets the revenue and the Qods Force, and then they spend it in places like Syria and on Hizballah and Hamas and on the Houthis in Yemen and proxies in Iraq and Syria. And so that’s why we’re calling it an oil-for-terror network.

  

There are so many touch points along sort of the chain that moves from when the oil is loaded and when it reaches its destination – the crews, the captains, the people who re-provision ships, et cetera. There are many people who are involved in that, and it’s often the tips that you don’t think are going to lead to something big that often do.

  

QUESTION: So like if I’m a dock worker in Cyprus or something and I see something that I think might be —

  

MR HOOK: You can use your imagination. There are many possibilities.

  

QUESTION: All right. And then on the second one?

  

MR HOOK: The President left the Iran deal because it provided Iran with a pathway to achieve a nuclear weapon. He’s been very clear that it is a bad deal. We have much more leverage outside of the deal to achieve our goal of preventing Iran from ever getting a nuclear weapon than we had inside the deal.

  

The President would very much like to see a diplomatic resolution to this. It would be helpful if Iran would meet our diplomacy with diplomacy instead of kinetic force. As the President has made clear, we do not want to see a conflict in the Middle East, but we’re also going to intensify our maximum pressure campaign because Iran – we need to deny it the revenue it needs to fund its foreign policy.

  

And it also, as history shows, is the principal means by which you bring Iran back to the negotiating table. The President would like to negotiate a new and better deal that will address the range of threats that Iran presents to peace and security – the nuclear program, the missile program, the regional aggression, and the arbitrary detention of American citizens.

  

QUESTION: Yeah. But the concern about this unelected cadre of people who are running around trying to subvert the President’s intention, is there any truth to that? And —

  

MR HOOK: I can only speak for the State Department, and the State Department – the President enjoys the full support of the State Department and the work that Secretary Pompeo does on behalf of American citizens.

  

MS ORTAGUS: Since Hudson actually showed up to a briefing, we’ll go to him next. (Laughter.)

  

QUESTION: Thank you very much. Brian, since, as you said, the President wants to negotiate, do moves like this chip away at the – any sort of positive environment that might take place ahead of a leader-level meeting that he said would be very soon?

  

MR HOOK: No, I don’t think it does because if you look at the history, the 40-year history of the Islamic Republic, they’re very good at cat-and-mouse diplomacy; they’re very good at nuclear extortion. And so the deadline is coming up on September 6. I think they’ve talked about – I saw something today that they may be giving Europe another couple of months. We believe this is nuclear extortion. Iran does not need to enrich fissile material to have a peaceful nuclear program. That’s why the first demand of the Secretary’s 12 demands is no enrichment.

  

And so if you look at the history of this, Iran never comes back to the negotiating table without diplomatic pressure – diplomatic isolation and economic pressure or the threat of military force. That’s just been the history of it. And so we will continue, as we have today, to deny the regime revenue, to drive up the costs of its malign behavior, and we think that this creates the right atmosphere that will lead eventually to talks. But that’s a decision that the Iranians have to make.

  

MS ORTAGUS: Rich.

  

QUESTION: Thanks. Hi, Brian.

  

MR HOOK: Hi, Rich.

  

QUESTION: Is there a point, or at what point when it comes to Iran and its nuclear enrichment does the United States expect the E3 to respond, those in the context of the deal?

  

MR HOOK: Respond in what way? What do you mean?

  

QUESTION: Respond by snapping back sanctions or anything specifically related to Iran’s nuclear activities.

  

MR HOOK: Well, we are outside of the Iran deal. The E3 are still in the deal; they continue with talks with Iran that is in material breach of it. We’re not a party to those talks, but I am in regular contact with our counterparts in the E3. We share the same threat assessment. They do not want Iran to acquire a nuclear weapon. They do not support Iran’s regional aggression. They do not support Iran’s ballistic missile testing. They don’t support Iran’s missile proliferation. They also don’t support Iran’s arbitrary detention of dual nationals.

  

So we agree on much more than we disagree. For those that are left in the deal, they’ll have to decide how to best to achieve their national security objectives. We know that being outside of the deal helps us to achieve ours much better.

  

MS ORTAGUS: Let’s give one of the ladies a chance. Go ahead.

  

QUESTION: Hi, Brian. Thank you.

  

MR HOOK: Hello.

  

QUESTION: So considering the fact that you guys are rolling out these sanctions today saying that they’re designed to deny the regime revenue, and then at the same time we’re hearing reports that President Macron is meeting with the Iranians to offer them a $15 billion bailout to stay in the deal, how do you square those two things? They seem like they would counteract one another directly.

  

MR HOOK: No, I don’t think it – it doesn’t counter – it doesn’t contradict it at all. The President very much would like to resolve our differences with Iran diplomatically. He has been in regular touch with leaders around the world, including Prime Minister Abe, President Macron, Prime Minister Boris Johnson. He meets regularly with a range of people. As I said, we all share the same threat assessment. We have the same concerns, especially with our European allies. I think we have tactical disagreements on how to achieve those. But there is – there is no concrete proposal that has been generated.

  

There have been a number of meetings. The President enjoyed his visit with President Macron. He’s very much open to a number of options, but what we really need to see, we have to see a change in Iranian behavior, which we still haven’t seen yet. And so the President, over the last couple of years, has said many times that he would be glad to meet with the Iranians, but the Iranians have to make a decision about whether they want to start behaving like a normal nation, and that’s a decision that only Iran can make. We hope that they will, and when they do, we will be prepared to negotiate a deal.

  

QUESTION: And is now the time for France to be conducting these kinds of conversations?

  

MR HOOK: That’s a question for France. The United States is – we are sort of very focused on our national security objectives and we’re happy with the progress we’re making to achieve them.

  

MS ORTAGUS: Go ahead.

  

QUESTION: Brian, hey.

  

MR HOOK: Nick.

  

QUESTION: Can you rule out that the U.S. would be willing to provide waivers to allow the $15 billion credit line offer to proceed?

  

MR HOOK: That would be – in light of our actions today, I think that speaks rather clearly. We announced new sanctions today. We’ve announced —

  

MS ORTAGUS: And yesterday.

  

MR HOOK: And yesterday. We did sanctions yesterday. We did sanctions Friday. We did sanctions today. There will be more sanctions coming. We can’t make it any more clear that we are committed to this campaign of maximum pressure, and we are not looking to grant any exceptions or waivers. We made it very clear that when we were done with our SREs – these are the oil waivers – when those were gone, those were gone. And so we’ve ended those and we’re very focused on our maximum pressure campaign.

  

QUESTION: Right, but there’s a – there’s quite a bit of ambiguity about your attitude toward this $15 million program. On a background call just now, an administration official said it was too early to tell. You yourself are saying there’s no concrete proposal on the table. The President seemed to be suggesting that he supported it when he spoke in Biarritz. So, I mean, is this is an idea that you’re willing to consider?

  

MR HOOK: I think what the President said is that when the conditions are right – and we’ve laid out very clearly what those conditions are and you see them in Secretary Pompeo’s list of 12 demands. So our focus is on those various buckets of the nuclear program, missiles, regional aggression, and hostage taking. And so that is the area where we need to see some progress. That’s our focus. The maximum pressure campaign helps us to achieve those.

  

MS ORTAGUS: Francesco.

  

QUESTION: Hi, thanks. Hi, Brian.

  

MR HOOK: Yeah, Francesco.

  

QUESTION: So when there will be a French proposal or a European proposal for this credit line, will you be ready to assess any possibility to green-light it from the U.S. stance? And also, do you also still think that a leader-level meeting is possible with Iran in the next couple of weeks, as said in Biarritz?

  

MR HOOK: Yeah, there is no concrete proposal.

  

QUESTION: But when there will be one, are you ready to assess the possibility of green-lighting?

  

MR HOOK: We have no idea if there will be one. There is no proposal, and so we’re not going to comment on something that doesn’t exist.

  

And then what was the other one? The President has said many times that he is – he wants to resolve our differences diplomatically. He has said many times that he is open to meeting with the Iranians. He has now met twice with Kim Jong-un. He very much believes —

  

QUESTION: Three times.

  

MR HOOK: Huh?

  

QUESTION: Three times.

  

MR HOOK: Three times, sorry. Three times he’s met with him, making my point even stronger. Steve Biegun should be up here for this. So he obviously is somebody who believes very much in bilateral diplomacy. There’s nothing more that needs to be said on it.

  

MS ORTAGUS: Do you have time for one more?

  

MR HOOK: Yeah, of course. I’m glad to take one or two more.

  

MS ORTAGUS: Said, are you going to actually ask about Iran?

  

QUESTION: Yes. (Laughter.) I mean, I write about everything. I wanted to ask you actually about conflict. You said that the President’s trying to avoid conflict. How do you view the Israeli attack of Iraq or Iranian positions in Iraq?

  

MR HOOK: Well, here’s how we view it.

  

QUESTION: Do you view this as pushing the United States and Iran towards a global conflict?

  

MR HOOK: The IRGC and Qods Force that we sanctioned today, again, is leveraging its foothold in Syria to threaten Israel and its neighbors, and so Israel has an inherent right of self-defense, to take action to prevent imminent attacks against their assets in the region and also to protect their own people. And so we very much support what Israel is doing.

  

QUESTION: But on Iraq, sir, because apparently the Iraqi air space is supposedly protected by American assets or the American airpower.

  

MR HOOK: The position on that is the United States had no role in the alleged attacks in Iraq, nor is it clear who carried out the strikes. Statements alleging a U.S. role in these events are false.

  

MS ORTAGUS: Okay —

  

MR HOOK: I can do one more.

  

MS ORTAGUS: Okay, NPR.

  

QUESTION: I have one quick question about China. The Chinese announced a $280 billion investment in Iran’s oil sector. I’m wondering what you think of that. And then quickly to follow up on this idea of a meeting, I mean, the President said he was open to have a meeting in the coming weeks. Is there any —

  

MS ORTAGUS: He’s been saying that for a long time.

  

QUESTION: I know, but I mean —

  

MS ORTAGUS: To be fair, he’s said that for —

  

QUESTION: — it was sounding more imminent when he was in Biarritz. Is there any diplomatic leg work? Have you reached out to the Iranians about setting up such a meeting?

  

MR HOOK: So on the first question of – what was it?

  

MS ORTAGUS: China.

  

QUESTION: China.

  

MR HOOK: China. We will sanction any sanctionable activity. We’ve already done that once with China, and so that is our policy. We’ve demonstrated that many times since we have left the deal, and we will continue to sanction any sanctionable activity. And we also don’t preview our sanctions.

  

On the second question. As Morgan said, he’s said it so many times that he is open to meetings. I don’t think – that’s an open secret that the President is very open to doing meetings with the Iranians. The Iranians – this is really a question for them. I think it was as recently as today that they expressed no interest in such a meeting. Iran has rejected diplomacy too many times. When Prime Minister Abe was in Japan, he went – he asked the President if he could make the trip. It was the first visit of a Japanese prime minister to the Islamic Republic of Iran. The supreme leader, he met with him. The supreme leader put out five tweets rejecting Prime Minister Abe and his diplomacy. And then just for good measure, he bombed a Japanese oil tanker while Prime Minister Abe was still in Iran.

  

You’ve seen also various leaders who’ve also attempted to try to get Iran to de-escalate, and they’ve not succeeded. So the President’s very comfortable with our foreign policy. Iran doesn’t like it. Iran is not used being told no. They have had a very long run of many years executing a foreign policy without impunity. And the United States, this administration, is standing up —

  

QUESTION: With impunity.

  

MR HOOK: With impunity. Very good correction, Matt. With impunity. And so we are standing up to that in ways that don’t have any historic precedent, and it is not a surprise that Iran doesn’t like it and they’re acting out in very kinetic ways, which is also something which is sort of an evergreen in Iran’s playbook. They’ve been doing this for many decades.

  

So we’re going to stick with our policy. We’re very comfortable with the progress we’ve made. We know that we are making contributions to peace and security every day that we run this policy.

  

MS ORTAGUS: Thanks, guys.

  

MR HOOK: Thank you.

The DOT Urban Art Program presented artist Chang-Jin Lee's work "Comfort Women Wanted" on one of the DOT Urban Art Program's art display structures in a temporary plaza located at 14th Street and 9th Avenue in Manhattan for one month starting on May 6, 2013. Based on the artist's interaction with comfort women survivors and a former Japanese solider from WWII, "Comfort Women Wanted" sheds light on one of the largest cases of female trafficking in the 20th century.

During WWII, young women from Asia and the Netherlands were kidnapped, imprisoned and forced to cater to the needs of the Japanese Imperial Army. By some estimates, only 30% of these women survived the "comfort stations." For the project "Comfort Women Wanted," ad-like posters depict black & white portraits of Asian comfort women survivors. The title and text reference Asian newspapers' comfort women advertisements that were circulated during the war. The project promotes awareness of the comfort women, some of whom are still alive today, and examines a history that has been largely forgotten.

To further explore the complexities of this project, visit Lee's one day screening at Hauser & Wirth Gallery on May 29th.

NYCDOT Urban Art Program, Art Display Structure

Comfort Women Wanted by Chang-Jin Lee

14th Street and 9th Avenue, Manhattan

nyc.gov/urbanart

changjinlee.net

 

A deadrise workboat passes the mouth of the Chester River near Stevensville, Md., on Sept. 4, 2015. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

 

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Collards grow in a terraced row in the Gwinnett Technical College Horticulture Program's Learning Garden, in Lawrenceville, GA, on Friday, Mar. 20, 2015.

Gwinnett Technical College Horticulture Program's Learning Garden in Lawrenceville, GA, on Friday, Mar. 20, 2015. The field allows students to demonstrate a variety growing techniques. All the plants are edible produce and allows culinary students to learn the value of farm fresh produce resulting in future Farm to Table practices that emphasize the partnership between the two programs. Horticulture students will plan and schedule plantings to meet the needs of upcoming menus. Culinary students will harvest the produce they will prepare that day. USDA photo by Lance Cheung.

 

This image is of the 1966 Rose Bowl program's cover. Printed on the cover is "Rose Bowl" "Michigan State vs UCLA" "January 1, 1966 * Pasadena, California * Official Program $1.00 (inc. tax)." It feature cartoon renditions of various college team mascots created by Walt Disney Productions.

 

January 1, 1966

 

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Subjects:

Rose Bowl (Football game)

 

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A004442

Students compete in the Arts and Entertainment Management Program's Lip Sync Battle on Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017. Proceeds went to the Canadian Mental Health Association.

National Symphony Orchestra Conductor Emil de Cou leads the National Symphony Orchestra during the Labor Day Weekend concert on the West Lawn of the U.S. Capitol, Sunday, September 5, 2010 in Washington. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden joined the Orchestra to introduce one the program's segments, music from the film "Apollo 13". Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

Spotlight Program's Board hosted students for breakfast on the first day of #GSUnited Homecoming 2016.

Back in June crowd support began for the BrickLink Designer Program's second 2023 Series with nine pirate-themed submissions eligible for voting.

 

Throughout July and August the Bricklink Designer Team counted the votes and reviewed the submissions for their suitability to be produced as something you, the LEGO Pirate fan can buy.

 

Well, the votes have been counted and the review is over! On August 23 it was announced "Ominous Isle" by Jazlecraz has been selected to commence crowdfunding in June 2024.

 

More information:

www.classic-pirates.com/news/bricklinkdesigner/ominious-i...

 

On the wall of the Cheerful Tortoise, a Portland State University hangout. PSU wrestling is one paint job away from obivion.

 

Collegiate wrestling is in decline on the West coast.

 

The first wrestling match we attended was at Portland State University. Now that program's been shut down, as has wrestling at the University of Oregon. Wrestling died at the University of Washington in about 1980.

 

I like wrestling because men can excel regardless of their stature. That's not true of many other sports.

 

It's also one of the few sports that hasn't been tainted by professionalism at the high school and college levels. It is and will remain a true amateur sport. They do it because they love the sport (hence the word "amateur"), not money or fame.

 

Here's an excerpt from a March 2009 newspaper article about the PSU team's demise:

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Even as he watched his team compete for perhaps the final time at this month's Pacific-10 Conference championships, Portland State wrestling coach Mike Haluska remained optimistic.

 

"I just had a really good feeling through all of this that it would work out," Haluska said.

Instead, the Portland State wrestling team was informed Wednesday by the university that it has been eliminated.

 

The news comes two months after PSU president Wim Wiewel created a seven-person task force to look into concerns with the wrestling program related to finances, academics and lack of success at the Division I level.

 

"This is very disappointing," Haluska said. "None of (the athletes) want to leave. They all want to wrestle at Portland State. Right now, they're obviously pretty down. But we're going to fight to keep it."

 

Portland State athletic director Torre Chisholm told the Vikings their fate in a 45-minute meeting Wednesday morning. The university task force recommended that wrestling become a club sport.

 

"I don't believe that it was any single area of concern that led to the decision, but a combined effect of all the problems," Chisholm said. "Added together, the wrestling program was in serious distress and the university lacks the resources to fix the many problems."

 

Portland State becomes the 15th college in Oregon to eliminate wrestling in the past 35 years, including the 670th in the nation, according to the National Wrestling Coaches Association. The University of Oregon cut its program after the 2007-08 season.

 

www.oregonlive.com/vikings/index.ssf/2009/03/portland_sta...

 

A blue crab rests underwater, underneath a dock protected by breakwaters at Jefferson Patterson Park in Calvert County, Md., on Aug. 21, 2020. In addition to easy access for paddlers, a nearby living shoreline supports more species both on land and in the water, compared with shorelines hardened by riprap or bulkheads. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

 

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A pile of oyster shells lies outside Oyster Seed Holdings, LLC., in Gwynn's Island, Va., on Aug. 2, 2013.

 

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Manuel Antonio Villafuerte, left, harvests grapes with Dan Skidmore at Boordy Vineyards in Hyde, Md., on Oct. 20, 2014. The winery and vineyard implements sustainable practices such as building a wetland on a nearby stream and composting stems and the grape pumice leftover after crushing.

 

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Teen campers at the Virginia National Guard Teen Wilderness Adventure Camp ride a zip line through the forest June 25, 2013 at Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing in New Castle, Va. The Virginia National Guard Youth Program partnered with Operation Military Kids to provide 60 children of Virginia National Guard service members four days of outdoor adventures June 23-27, including mountain biking, kayaking, inner tubes, ropes courses and zip lines. (Photo by Master Sgt. A.J. Coyne, Virginia Guard Public Affairs)

Old Apollo program's Launch Control Center, now part of museum tour.

Tidal Bass Manager Joseph Love, Tim Groves, Natural Resource Biologist, Inland Fisheries, and Branson Williams, a fisheries biologist with Maryland DNR, monitor largemouth bass in Chicamuxen Creek near the Potomac River in Charles County, Md., on April 23, 2013. The Maryland Department of Natural Resources Tidal Bass Survey team monitors two bass sanctuaries that were established in 2010 in Chicamuxen and nearby Nanjemoy Creek. Both sanctuaries utilize plastic pipes that serve as spawning structures for the species. (Photo by Jenna Valente/Chesapeake Bay Program)

 

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Some panorama photos just don't line-up properly -- in this case, just enough movement of the battleship doomed a 4-photo panorama... but the program's attempt is Admiral, Uh, admirable! (I've posted the final panorama below)

 

2011-10-27 001 Stitch