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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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EnviroCenter Founder and CEO Stanley J. Sersen, left, poses with plans for an expansion of his company's green office building in Jessup, Md., that utilizes environmentally friendly technologies such as solar panels, rain gardens, rain barrels, green roofs, and permeable pavement to reduce stormwater runoff. "And now we're expanding that to a 16,000 square-foot office with 8,000 feet of integrated agriculture." The property includes a 1905 farmhouse that Sersen said was made sustainable using mostly off-the-shelf components. (Photo by Alicia Pimental/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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City of Austin employees set a record in celebration of the Build A Backpack program’s 10th anniversary. The all-volunteer school supplies drive assists students receiving free and reduced-priced lunches whose families often struggle to provide necessary supplies. More than 10,000 backpacks w/supplies have been donated to AISD in the 10 year program.
Portraits of Hope Teams with Gain
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New York City Laundromat/Lavanderia Makeovers -- Bronx, East Harlem, Washington Heights Portraits of Hope's Laundromat Public Art and Civic Initiative
Conceived and developed by Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Founders of Portraits of Hope www.portraitsofhope.org
A select group of laundromats in New York City now beam colors and flowers throughout their interior settings -- on ceilings, walls, washing machines, dryers, floors, and tables -- as part of Portraits of Hope’s latest creative therapy, civic education, public art and community undertaking involving children in hospitals, schools, and social service programs.
This Portraits of Hope public art and civic initiative is a continuation of the program’s large-scale, national projects which have visually transformed and brightened public settings and symbols ranging from the NYC taxi fleet, blimps, planes, and buildings to LA’s coastal lifeguard towers, NASCAR race cars, and frontline fire and rescue vehicles.
Gain has partnered with Portraits of Hope to beautify and enhance the laundromat settings and experience through participatory community opportunities culminating in the public art makeovers.
Traditionally, Portraits of Hope selects iconic public settings and symbols for its visual makeovers that people routinely take for granted or expect will continue to be “the same as they've always been.” For this project, POH and Gain have picked a set of locations that are almost universally taken for granted: Laundromats/Lavanderias. These venues are necessities for millions of people -- and in urban areas, laundromats also do double-duty as mini-social centers or places where adults with their kids spend hours of time. POH and Gain decided to change the visual dynamic of that experience and add positive energy to those settings.
After visiting 170 NYC laundromats as potential sites for Portraits of Hope laundromat makeovers, POH narrowed it down and selected six; four in South Bronx and two in upper Manhattan: Washington Heights and Spanish Harlem.
Children and youth in the Bronx and Harlem, among others, have participated in Portraits of Hope art, creative therapy, and civic leadership sessions in schools and hospitals in which much of the art has been created. The vibrantly hued art is floral themed -- as the flower is the universal symbol of beauty, joy, life, renewal, and nature. The flower is a theme integral to Portraits of Hope.
For the Laundromat project, Ed Massey designed special exhibition elements including chandeliers, freestanding lamps, laundry baskets, carts, fountains, corn hole boards, and recycling containers to enliven the laundromat makeovers.
The 2D and 3D art and designs in the laundromats are everywhere -- whether looking up, down, forward, back, or side to side -- making these New York laundromats the most unique and festive anywhere.
Background:
Portraits of Hope conceives and develops high-profile motivational art projects that merge the production of dynamic public art works with creative therapy for hospitalized children and civic education for children of all ages.
Special Portraits of Hope brushes and methodologies have been developed for children and adults with illnesses and physical disabilities, including telescope brushes for those in wheel chairs or attached to IVs, shoe brushes for people unable to manipulate a brush with their hands, and fruit-flavored mouth brushes for kids and adults with limited or no movement in their limbs. For persons who are blind or visually impaired, Portraits of Hope utilizes special textured paints.
In schools, Portraits of Hope participants engage in interdisciplinary education sessions in which students assess, discuss and communicate their thoughts on social issues affecting their communities and the world, including: civic leadership, education, health care, the environment, foreign aid, and senior care. The larger art collaboration is a group effort to demonstrate tangibly the power of community teamwork and civic engagement.
Founded by brothers Ed Massey and Bernie Massey, Portraits of Hope has engaged tens of thousands of children and adults in huge civic collaborations - in the U.S. and abroad – and involved nearly 1,000 hospitals, schools, and social service programs in its projects.
The exhibition will run through Summer 2014 – or until a later date determined by the participating Laundromats.
Laundromat locations:
1. "Up All Night Laundromat," 1965 Amsterdam Ave., Washington Heights
2. "All Clean Laundromat," 2035 3rd Ave, East Harlem
3. "Happy Family Laundromat," 275 E. 163rd St, Bronx
4. "3rd Ave Laundromat," 3825 3rd Ave, Bronx
5. "Super Coin Laundromat," 938 E 163rd St, Bronx
6. "Clean Circle Laundromat," 1210 Webster Ave, Bronx
Portraits of Hope is extremely grateful to Proctor & Gamble and Gain for exemplifying civic spirit and generosity in making the project possible and for sharing in the project’s themes and goals which has allowed for the beautification of these community Laundromats.
Portraits of Hope gives bear hugs to: New York Cares and their teams of outstanding volunteers who participated in hospital and school sessions for another POH project; Hudson River Park and its staff which has been involved in 3 POH projects; MACtac which has provided top performing adhesive material for multiple POH national projects; and Laird Plastics, national materials suppliers, who provide great product know-how, recycling capabilities, and wonderful civic spirit.
Portraits of Hope gives a loud shout-out to the laundromats selected for the project and, of course, to the hundreds of children who had a chance to participate in its sessions and are the stars of the initiative. www.portraitsofhope.org
Chesapeake City, Md., on April 30, 2010.
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Carey Sookocheff
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."
Article posted at highschoolsports.syracuse.com/news/article/-7252830500074...
The Chesapeake Bay Program hosts its Diversity Workgroup Meeting at Masonville Cove Environmental Education Center in Baltimore, Md., on Nov. 2, 2016. Representatives from across the watershed gathered for discussions about what communities need, opportunities for enhancing engagement, public health, environmental justice, and other topics. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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In scratching out a 64-61 win over Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday evening at the HU Convocation Center, the Hampton University men's basketball team snapped its six-game losing streak.
The Pirates improved to 9-14 overall and 5-5 in the MEAC on the season.
Head coach Edward Joyner Jr. won his 91st career game in the process, becoming the program's all-time winningest Div. I coach – surpassing Steve Merfeld.
Guard Reginald Johnson registered his second straight 20-point game, leading all Pirate scorers with 21 points on 7-for-15 shooting. Guard/forward Dwight Meikle added 16 points and a team-high 11 rebounds for his fourth double-double of the season.
Guard Deron Powers added 11 points and four assists.
The Pirates shot 44.2 percent (23-for-52) from the floor – thanks in large part to a 14-for-25 effort (56.0 percent) in the second half. Hampton scored 25 points off of 16 UMES turnovers, and Hampton held a 26-22 edge in points in the paint.
A layup from Devin Martin with 2:14 left in the game tied the contest at 58-58, before Johnson answered with 1:11 left by converting an acrobatic 3-point play to put the Pirates up 61-58. Dominique Elliott cut that lead to 61-60 with a jumper with 55 seconds left.
But Meikle put his stamp on the game with 42 seconds left, finding space on the fast break before floating in the air, making it look as if he would finger-roll the ball into the hoop, before slamming the ball home with one hand to give the Pirates a 63-60 lead.
The two teams traded free throws down the stretch, but Martin missed both of his 3-pointers in the closing moments to hand the Pirates the hard-fought win.
The UMES led much of the night, though – particularly in the first half. The Hawks opened the game with six straight – thanks to back-to-back 3-pointers from Ryan Andino – before the Pirates cut the lead to 6-5 on a jumper in the paint from junior forward Jervon Pressley.
The Hawks opened the game back up, taking a 22-10 lead at the 8:37 mark after a 3-pointer from Martin. A dunk from Michael Myers and a layup from Devon Walker gave UMES a 29-16 lead with 2:39 left in the half.
But Hampton scored the last seven points of the frame – a jumper and 3-pointer from Meikle and a jumper from Powers – to cut UMES' lead to 29-23 at the break.
That momentum carried into the second half, as the Pirates cut UMES' lead to one on three separate occasions before taking their first lead of the night on a Johnson layup with 15:12 left – putting Hampton up 36-35.
Johnson then hit a trey to put the Pirates up 39-35 at the 13:32 mark.
Johnson added a layup with 13:14 remaining to give the Pirates a 41-37 lead, before UMES went on a 10-1 run to take a 47-42 lead with 10:39 left to play after a dunk from Elliott. Elliott later gave the UMES a 53-48 lead at the 6:29 mark with a free throw.
After a pair of Martin free throws gave the Hawks a 55-50 lead, the Pirates went on a 7-0 spurt, taking a 57-55 lead with 3:13 left to play after a jumper from Powers.
Red Weasel Media was sitting on the baseline to capture all of the high flying action. Go Pirates!
The headwaters of Deep Creek, in the Susquehanna River watershed, flow through forested hills and farmland near Beurys Lake, Pa., on Sept. 17, 2019. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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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
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A carp among a bed of bay grasses in Poplar Harbor, Maryland
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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.
In scratching out a 64-61 win over Maryland Eastern Shore on Saturday evening at the HU Convocation Center, the Hampton University men's basketball team snapped its six-game losing streak.
The Pirates improved to 9-14 overall and 5-5 in the MEAC on the season.
Head coach Edward Joyner Jr. won his 91st career game in the process, becoming the program's all-time winningest Div. I coach – surpassing Steve Merfeld.
Guard Reginald Johnson registered his second straight 20-point game, leading all Pirate scorers with 21 points on 7-for-15 shooting. Guard/forward Dwight Meikle added 16 points and a team-high 11 rebounds for his fourth double-double of the season.
Guard Deron Powers added 11 points and four assists.
The Pirates shot 44.2 percent (23-for-52) from the floor – thanks in large part to a 14-for-25 effort (56.0 percent) in the second half. Hampton scored 25 points off of 16 UMES turnovers, and Hampton held a 26-22 edge in points in the paint.
A layup from Devin Martin with 2:14 left in the game tied the contest at 58-58, before Johnson answered with 1:11 left by converting an acrobatic 3-point play to put the Pirates up 61-58. Dominique Elliott cut that lead to 61-60 with a jumper with 55 seconds left.
But Meikle put his stamp on the game with 42 seconds left, finding space on the fast break before floating in the air, making it look as if he would finger-roll the ball into the hoop, before slamming the ball home with one hand to give the Pirates a 63-60 lead.
The two teams traded free throws down the stretch, but Martin missed both of his 3-pointers in the closing moments to hand the Pirates the hard-fought win.
The UMES led much of the night, though – particularly in the first half. The Hawks opened the game with six straight – thanks to back-to-back 3-pointers from Ryan Andino – before the Pirates cut the lead to 6-5 on a jumper in the paint from junior forward Jervon Pressley.
The Hawks opened the game back up, taking a 22-10 lead at the 8:37 mark after a 3-pointer from Martin. A dunk from Michael Myers and a layup from Devon Walker gave UMES a 29-16 lead with 2:39 left in the half.
But Hampton scored the last seven points of the frame – a jumper and 3-pointer from Meikle and a jumper from Powers – to cut UMES' lead to 29-23 at the break.
That momentum carried into the second half, as the Pirates cut UMES' lead to one on three separate occasions before taking their first lead of the night on a Johnson layup with 15:12 left – putting Hampton up 36-35.
Johnson then hit a trey to put the Pirates up 39-35 at the 13:32 mark.
Johnson added a layup with 13:14 remaining to give the Pirates a 41-37 lead, before UMES went on a 10-1 run to take a 47-42 lead with 10:39 left to play after a dunk from Elliott. Elliott later gave the UMES a 53-48 lead at the 6:29 mark with a free throw.
After a pair of Martin free throws gave the Hawks a 55-50 lead, the Pirates went on a 7-0 spurt, taking a 57-55 lead with 3:13 left to play after a jumper from Powers.
Red Weasel Media was sitting on the baseline to capture all of the high flying action. Go Pirates!
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
Repository Information:
Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, Conrad Hall, 888 Wilson Rd., Room 101, East Lansing, MI 48824, archives.msu.edu
Subjects:
Rose Bowl (Football game)
Resource Identifier:
A004446
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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Community Health Immunization Program’s Laura Wilson, RN, CPNP, gives Chanel Archuleta a vaccine at the immunization clinic kickoff organized and supported by Denver Health, Denver Public Schools and Kaiser Permanente.
Fish and Wildlife Service staff recently teamed with state botanists to visit a Transylvania County, North Carolina bog to see how rare plants were responding to recent efforts to clear the overstory and provide them more sunlight.
Photo credit: G. Peeples/USFWS
DXO offered some of us tenured customers a free permanent version of Filmpak 3 as part of their opening publicity for Filmpak 4. This program’s purpose is to take a digital picture and give it the same look that different films would have produced, had it been on those films. Although the freebie was more limited in film choices than their #4, it still gave a lot of the old favorites.
For space reasons, I reduced a snapshot taken with an EOS-M by 50%, then applied some of the various filters. Even jpegged, the file is pretty big. To see which films are represented and to get a good look at things like grain and the lines in Polachrome, you will need to see “all size” button, then open up as “original.” You can move the large view around on your screen and see the different color shades of the different iterations.
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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The Early Show is an American television morning news talk show broadcast by CBS from New York City. The program airs from 7 to 9 a.m. Monday through Friday, 8 to 10 a.m. Saturdays in eastern time zones. It airs live on most affiliates in the Eastern Time Zone, but is tape delayed in the remaining time zones. The Early Show features celebrity interviews and light entertainment and news pieces. In some markets, the Saturday version may not air. Having premiered on November 1, 1999, it is the youngest of the major networks' morning shows, although CBS has programmed in that timeslot continuously since 1965.[citation needed]
The Early Show, like many of its predecessors, has traditionally run third in the ratings to its rivals, NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America. Much like NBC's The Today Show and The Tonight Show, the title The Early Show is analogous to that of CBS' late-night talk show, Late Show.
Saturday edition
The Saturday edition of The Early Show premiered in September 1997 as CBS Saturday Morning. It is anchored by Chris Wragge of WCBS and Betty Nguyen.[15] WCBS' chief meteorologist Lonnie Quinn serves as weather anchor, and Rebecca Jarvis serves as news anchor. Nguyen is temporarily anchoring while Erica Hill is on maternity leave, no date has been given for her return. The show features news and lifestyle segments, including two holdovers from the original CBS Saturday Morning: Chef on a Shoestring (a cooking segment) and The Second Cup Cafe (a music segment).
As of 2008, The Saturday Early Show no longer carries a separate name from the weekday edition, and is introduced simply as The Early Show. The program is broadcast live beginning at 8:00 a.m. ET on Saturday mornings from the GM Building on Fifth Avenue in New York City, across the street from Central Park. It airs at various times through the country on most CBS stations. However, depending on the time zone it may or may not air (some CBS affiliates preempt the Saturday morning edition for local newscasts, and some push up the timeslot of the Saturday morning children's program block after the newscast if it ends before 9:00 a.m. in order to make up for it).
The Early Show does not carry a Sunday edition, nor are there any plans for one in the near future, due to the continued success of CBS News Sunday Morning, which has a distinctly different format with long form journalism reports and in depth interview segments.
[edit]Early Backstage
Introduced July 14, 2009, The Early Show's Web site features a daily blog called Early Backstage giving visitors a look at things not seen on the broadcast, such as after-the-show anchor antics, celebrity interviews and behind-the-scenes features. Early Backstage is hosted by Adam Wurtzel (Adam the Audience Guy).
[edit]Ratings
CBS has been the perennial third-place finisher in the morning race since 1976, placing second only a few times in the past 30 years. CBS beat Good Morning America for second place the weeks of January 17, 1977 and December 28, 1998. The Today Show was in first place both times. However, CBS outrated The Today Show for second spot over a few weeks in 1984 when Jane Pauley was on maternity leave. At that time, Good Morning America was ranked #1.[16]
In 2007, CBS sought to change the 3rd place position of The Early Show in September 2007 by hiring Shelly Ross, former executive producer of GMA from 1999–2004. Significant changes were made to the program as Ross asserted her influence. For instance, the network no longer allows the frequent local station breaks that were previously allowed during the former broadcast as of January 7, 2008.[17] CBS reportedly views the removal of those breaks as vital to creating a national profile for the program.[citation needed]
However, some CBS affiliates continue to air the full program on another co-owned sister station and continue to air their local morning news; WWL-TV in New Orleans has never aired the Early Show or any of its previous versions, broadcasting all local newscasts instead, currently from 5am-9am. The Early Show now airs in New Orleans on MyNetworkTV sister station WUPL. Cincinnati's WKRC-TV airs the full show on the CBS station with an hour of all-local news on the co-owned CW channel. Salt Lake City's KUTV (which was formerly owned by the network until 2007) continues to pre-empt the program's first hour despite the network's insistence.[citation needed]
Industry insiders considered Ross' influence to be a serious threat and bring the profile of the show up to make the program a true competitor to NBC's Today and ABC's Good Morning America. After six months, Ross was fired from the position, after frequent feuds with staff, particularly Smith and Chen, who reportedly informed managemnt that either Ross would have to go or they would.[18]
In 2008, TV season, The Early Show is showing ratings strength with double-digit increases compared with a year earlier. Today has averaged 6 million viewers (up 6%) and a 2.2 in adults 25-54 (flat). ABC's Good Morning America has averaged 4.9 million (up 1%) and a 1.7 in adults aged 25-54 (flat). Early Show has averaged 3.5 million (up 20%) and a 1.3 in adults 25-54 (up 30%).[19]
For the fourth quarter of 2008 (9/22/08-12/28/08), The Early Show (2.92 million viewers) posted its best delivery among total viewers in three years (since 2.93m in 2005) and cut the gap with GMA by 578,000 viewers. The CBS broadcast is also in its closest competitive position to both GMA and Today in a decade in total viewers and the key news demographic of adults aged 25-54.[citation needed]
Total Viewers '08 Total Viewers '07 Change
The Early Show 2,920,000 2,780,000 +5%
Today 5,459,000 5,499,000 -1%
Good Morning America 4,508,000 4,946,000 -9%
Year-to-year, CBS' The Early Show cut the Total Viewer gap by 190,000 between 2nd place Good Morning America.[20]
Total Viewers: NBC: 5,820,000 / ABC: 4,522,000 / CBS: 3,213,000
Ages 25-54 rating: NBC: 2.1/15 / ABC: 1.7/11 / CBS: 1.2/8
On WBNS-TV 10 in Columbus, the first half-hour of The Early Show managed to surpass NBC's Today in ratings.[21] All three broadcasts increased viewership from the prior week.
Total Viewers: NBC: 5,700,000 / ABC: 4,600,000 / CBS: 3,100,000
Ages 25-54 Rating: NBC: 2.1 / ABC: 1.6 / CBS: 1.1[22]
Even as Smith, Chen and Rodriguez grow more comfortable after CBS's failed experiment with a four-anchor team, their program remains far behind its rivals. After the May sweeps, The Early Show boasted of a 5 percent increase in viewers, while Today dipped 3 percent and Good Morning America by 4 percent.[9]
[edit]Theme music
The debut theme for the The Early Show' was a typical opener for an American morning news program. When the show reformatted with new hosts and set they used an instrumental version of Sting's 1999 hit, Brand New Day until late October 2006, when it was replaced by the CBS Evening News theme from James Horner. In January 7, 2008, CBS made an attempt to relaunch the show with new hosts and set plus an updated theme music that of the James Horner's composition. The theme was modified for a number of times since the reformat took launch.
[edit]International broadcasts
In Australia, The Early Show airs on Network Ten weekday mornings from 4.00am under the title "The CBS Early Show", with Fridays edition being held over to the following Monday. A national weather map of Australia is inserted during local affiliate cut-aways for weather. No local news is inserted, however. America's top 3 breakfast television programs air in Australia almost simultaneously, with NBC Today airing on the Seven Network at 4.00am and Good Morning America on Nine airing from 3.30 am. Unlike the above, The Early Show is not condensed or edited. It is, however, pre-empted in most regional areas for paid and religious programming.
In the Philippines, it is currently being shown on Lifestyle Network Tue to Sat 6 to 8 am (local time).[23]
[edit]Awards
In 2010, The Early Show was nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for "Outstanding TV Journalism Segment" for the segment "Reverend’s Revelation: Minister Speaks Out About Being Transgender" during the 21st GLAAD Media Awards.
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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.
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Wildland fire aircraft play a critical role in supporting firefighters on wildland fires. Helicopters also deliver aerial crews called Heli-Rappellers to wildland fires. These are specially trained firefighters that rappel from helicopters in order to effectively and quickly respond to fires in remote terrain.
Heli-Rappellers may land near a wildfire but if there is no landing zone close by they can utilize their skills to rappel from the hoovering helicopter. Once on the ground, crews build firelines using hand tools, chainsaws, and other firefighting tools. Forest Service photo by Charity Parks.
George Hastings, of Baltimore, Md., poses at Nick's Oyster Bar inside Cross Street Market in Baltimore on Feb. 23, 2015. Hastings is a two-time national champion oyster shucker, and has been shucking since the 1970s. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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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
Bernie Fowler, center, looks down at his great-grandson Carter Dailey, 5, while holding hands with his grandaughter Lauren Fowler at the 28th annual Patuxent River Wade-In at Jefferson Patterson Park in St. Leonard, Md., on June 14, 2015. A former Maryland state senator and long-time advocate for a healthy Patuxent River, Fowler draws attention to the health of the river by wading into the water and measuring the depth at which he can longer see the top of his white sneakers. This year the official measurement was 44.5 inches.
(Photo by Keith Rutowski/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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Otsego Lake is seen from Brookwood Point, a property owned and conserved by the Otsego Land Trust, in Cooperstown, N.Y., on Oct. 9, 2020. Part of the land trust's Blueway Trail, Brookwood Point features a soft launch for small vessels and a 100-year-old garden. (Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)
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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
Repository Information:
Michigan State University Archives & Historical Collections, Conrad Hall, 888 Wilson Rd., Room 101, East Lansing, MI 48824, archives.msu.edu
Subjects:
Rose Bowl (Football game)
Resource Identifier:
A004442
S.C. Army National Guard Soldiers and fire department/EMS rescuers with the S.C. Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team (SC-HART) program, S.C. Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 1 (SC-TF1), conduct training-rescue operations during their first, 2018, quarterly rescue-training event Table Rock, Pickens County, Jan. 18, 2018. The three-day training event includes both day and night operations, with focus on land and water-based rescue, along with incorporating a variety of additional challenges for crews and rescuers, such as extraction of survivors from mountain-wooded areas and other “constricted” scenarios. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Staff Sgt. Roberto Di Giovine)
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.
Spotlight Program's Board hosted students for breakfast on the first day of #GSUnited Homecoming 2016.
Agnes and Stephen Reading, who endow 10 nursing student scholarships annually through a donation to the WCC Foundation, received a tour of the program's lab and simulation technology.
Wildland Firefighters on Rappel capable crews, come from all over the nation each spring to train at the National Helicopter Rappel Program’s Rappel Academy at Salmon AirBase, in Salmon, Idaho.
Wildland fire aircraft play a critical role in supporting firefighters on wildland fires. Helicopters also deliver aerial crews called Heli-Rappellers to wildland fires. These are specially trained firefighters that rappel from helicopters in order to effectively and quickly respond to fires in remote terrain.
Heli-Rappellers may land near a wildfire but if there is no landing zone close by they can utilize their skills to rappel from the hoovering helicopter. Once on the ground, crews build firelines using hand tools, chainsaws, and other firefighting tools. Forest Service photo by Charity Parks.
City of Austin employees set a record in celebration of the Build A Backpack program’s 10th anniversary. The all-volunteer school supplies drive assists students receiving free and reduced-priced lunches whose families often struggle to provide necessary supplies. More than 10,000 backpacks w/supplies have been donated to AISD in the 10 year program.
New wayfinding sign outside BC Place Stadium. (photo credit: Pauline Cheng)
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We set out to observe Vancouver as it prepared for the 2010 Olympics. This is part of a photo journal of our observations. We focused on the newest installations in the city including: signage, pageantry and public/street art. Note: the Cygnus team were observers only, we were not involved in the Vancouver 2010 Wayfinding or signage program(s).
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...