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BLOG: Shadow Theater And Data Management For The Delta
December 20, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /California WaterBlogby Amber Manfree
Data and data management are persistent concerns for the Delta and California water more generally. Data Wars: A New Hope, a shadow puppet play on the subject, was shown at the 2016 Bay-Delta Science Conference in Sacramento. The challenge of the Conference's theme, "Science for Solutions: Linking Data and Decisions," is illustrated by characters such as a lonesome marsh wren and a striped bass with a Boston accent.
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BLOG: What The New Federal Water Bill Means For The Delta
December 20, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /Water Deeply (New York)by Michael Doyle, Dale Kasler and Ryan Sabalow, Sacramento Bee
President Barack Obama on Friday signed a massive infrastructure bill designed to control floods, fund dams and deliver more water to farmers in California's drought-ravaged Central Valley.Obama signed the $12-billion bill in a distinctly low-key act. Controversial provisions that critics fear could harm fish in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta were wrapped inside a package stuffed with politically popular projects, ranging from Sacramento-area levees to clean-water aid for beleaguered Flint, Mich.
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Decades Of Water Rights Litigation Put To Rest
December 20, 2016 /in San Diego County /by Ed Joyce /The San Diego Union-Tribuneby J. Harry Jones
A North County water rights dispute that had been stuck in federal court for decades was officially put to rest last week, along with part of an even older case.The two settlements were included in a larger package of water resource and infrastructure legislation approved earlier this month by the House of Representatives and the Senate, then signed Friday by President Barack Obama. One case involved a 1951 three-pronged lawsuit over water rights to the Santa Margarita River that at one time had nearly 7,000 defendants.
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The Most Important Lake In California
December 20, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /The Week by Crawford Coates
Roger Haley grew up at the bottom of Lake Casitas. "It was one of the most beautiful locations in the county. Just magnificent," he says. "We have a lot of the newcomers to the Ojai Valley, they have no idea. They think that what they see [in this lake] is all that's good and natural. And they just have no idea." The lake Haley is describing is a bowl of land that, a half century ago, became a giant, man-made bucket to serve Ventura, a Southern California coastal community midway between Los Angeles and Santa Barbara.
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Rainfall Boosts Water Levels Of Santa Clara County Reservoirs
December 20, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /KRON 4 (San Francisco)by Rob Fladeboe
Parts of the Bay Area are still drying out from last week's big soaker. The numbers are in and it turns out area reservoirs got a nice boost from all that rain. One of the larger reservoirs in the Santa Clara valley, Lexington, in the mountains above Los Gatos is now at just over 40 percent of capacity. That's a roughly 5 percent increase over a week ago. It represents a good start for the year.
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How Cities Are Tackling Aging Water Systems
December 20, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /Next City (Philadelphia, Pa.)by Jen Kinney
Flint, Michigan, has shone a spotlight on the decrepit state and lack of investment in the U.S.'s water infrastructure, but the city isn't alone in facing these challenges. A new policy brief from the Brookings Institute breaks down how cities with large drinking water utilities are financing their water systems, and what challenges they're facing. The new research finds a significant mismatch between the need for investment and the resources available.
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Fitzgerald: How To Kill Fish And Hurt People
December 20, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /Record Net (Stockton)by Michael Fitzgerald
Saving the Delta requires sacrifice by all, not just residents of this region. I hope someone drilled that idea into the State Water Resources Control Board. The board, whose Sisyphean job is to ensure California's water is used fairly, brought its road show to Stockton last Friday for a public hearing on its dubious Water Quality Control Plan.To save dying fisheries, and to make the Delta healthier, the board proposes to bump up flows on three rivers that feed the San Joaquin River: the Stanislaus, Tuolumne and Merced.
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Obama Signs Bill Securing $415M For Lake Tahoe
December 20, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /The Record-Courier (Gardnerville, Nev.)
With the stroke of a pen Friday President Barack Obama solidified $415 million in federal funding for projects in and around Lake Tahoe, along with providing funding for drought relief in California and other water projects. In signing the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act Friday, Obama did not mention Lake Tahoe in his statement. Rather, the president mentioned the complexity of the drought provisions, which had threatened to derail the overall bill.
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December 20, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /Next City (Philadelphia Pa.)by Jen Kinney
Federal Water Legislation Supports Orange County Drought Solutions
December 20, 2016 /in California and the U.S. /by Ed Joyce /Orange County Breeze
President Barack Obama recently signed the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation (WIIN) Act. This historic legislation, which included elements from the Water Resources Development Act (WRDA), will authorize California drought relief, provide aid to address lead contaminated drinking water, and will provide over $10 billion in flood control, navigation, beach re-nourishment, and environmental restoration projects. The WIIN Act will deliver critical support to Orange County Water District's (OCWD; the District) efforts to safeguard the region's limited water supplies and to develop sustainable and innovative solutions to mitigate the drought's impacts to north and central Orange County.
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Happy birthday, Carmen!
My wife Kate gave birth to our (briefly nameless) daughter, Carmen Alessandra Cortesi Wheeler, at 10:13am on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009. She was 7lb 7oz, with half an inch of dark brown hair. So far, she is preternaturally calm (famous last words) and loves to put her hands on her face, dodgy since she has the long fingernails of a two week-late baby.
Labor was intense and long, starting Monday night, pausing completely for part of Tuesday, and then going fifteen hours from Tuesday evening to Wednesday morning. Kate worked amazingly hard and with stamina I didn't know was possible, finally collapsing with the baby on her chest. Kate and baby (and soon I) are now sleeping deeply.
A critical mass of cuteness occurred this evening when My sister's six year-old and three year-old called up to sing Happy Birthday to the baby. Jasmine, the six year-old, has been waiting for her new cousin for years; while on her way to a lunch the day after our wedding two years ago, Jasmine mused to her mom, "I wonder if she'll bring the baby?" When told these things take a while, she revised herself, predicting instead that Kate would just have "a big belly".
Carmen is a Latinate name taken from the Hebrew "Carmel", meaning vineyard/garden/orchard, adapted to match the Latin "carmen" (meaning song) while keeping a Judeo-Christian connection. Christian and Jewish history in Europe is full of this kind of roundabout inclusion of pagan names in the religious canon. Thus her Hebrew name could be Carmel or something completely different... to be determined some time in the next thirteen years. Carmen is and has been mostly found in Spanish-speaking countries, perhaps because Castile was one of the areas outside Rome whose Latinate creole stayed closest to Latin (along with much of Roman imperial culture). But it is used as a name in many Romance countries, as well as in English. In the Bizet opera, Carmen is a gypsy, though Carmen is not known as a Gypsy/Romani name.
Alessandra is many things: Italian, through Kate, and a longtime contender with Carmen for this baby's first name (it's the Edwards to Carmen's Kerry); my brother Alex's name (you can see him in the last picture holding the baby), transformed across language and gender; Jewish, thanks to the honorary position of Alexander as a Jewish name because he was such a refreshingly non-brutal conqueror (the story was later expanded to include the claim that on the way to destroy the Jerusalem temple, Alexander encountered a bunch of rabbis and was so struck by their holiness that he was compelled to bow before their feet, realizing the error of his ways); and last, an echo of my great-grandfather C. A. Wheeler, a good man (though not a good father, as I understand it) who represented the indigent as a lawyer in Texas in the early part of the last century (he was a law partner of Sam Rayburn), and who represents for me the other Texas (of Ann Richards, Molly Ivins and Kinky Friedman), and the other America -- the one where active citizenship, responsibility for others and appreciation for your opportunities are unremarkable traits.
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The Subtle Rudder on Thu Jun 04, 11:18:00 AM:
Oh, she's lovely...welcome, Carmen!
My word verification is "soneo," which seems just right for celebrating a beautiful new human.
Yay and congratulations, dad!
Alice's mom on Thu Jun 04, 07:30:00 PM:
She's beautiful. Congratulations to all of you.
Alice's mom

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Toll anxiety rises as Byrne tells town hall that 'my hands are tied'
Updated Jul 8, 2019 ; Posted Jul 8, 2019
A rendering of the I-10 Mobile River Bridge project in downtown Mobile, Ala. The Alabama Department of Transportation held a public meeting on Tuesday, May 7, 2019, at the Spanish Fort Community Center on the proposed $2.1 billion bridge and bayway project. (rendering courtesy of the Alabama Department of Transportation).
By John Sharp | jsharp@al.com
Anxiety over a $3 to $6 one-way toll charge to use the future Interstate 10 Bridge and Bayway and the Wallace Tunnel, dominated a town hall meeting hosted by U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne on Monday.
"It will ruin a large part of our lives," said Dawn Bratcher of Mobile.
But Byrne, R-Fairhope, told the approximately 50 people at the Magnolia Springs Town Hall that a decision on how to pay for the $2.1 billion project is up to state officials, not him.
"My hands are tied, they really are," said Byrne. The only promise he made was to meet with former coastal Alabama Congressman Jo Bonner, who is currently chief of staff to Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey, and relay the concerns in coastal Alabama about the state's toll plan.
Byrne said he doesn't see the state killing the project outright if discussions about tolls are stopped. The Alabama Department of Transportation, in recent months, said that tolls are the only viable option toward financing the massive infrastructure project.
"I'm not concerned the project is going to die, but I think we'll drag it out … because we'll have this debate about tolls," said Byrne, who first vocalized opposition toward tolling back in 2014. "If we had addressed it a couple of years ago, when we talked about it initially, we'd be much further along in the process. But I'm not a state official and cannot force them to do things one way or the other."
State solution
Coastal area state lawmakers are expected to meet with ALDOT officials Wednesday in Spanish Fort. Among those expected to attend is ALDOT Transportation Director John Cooper, who has repeatedly said that a project the size and scope of the I-10 overhaul in Mobile and Baldwin counties requires tolls.
The meeting comes ahead of an expected release of a final record of decision on the project, which could be released next month. An ALDOT spokesperson wasn't immediately available for comment.
"I personally want no tolls or a toll as low as possible," said state Rep. Matt Simpson, R-Daphne, who will attend the meeting. "We are working with ALDOT to see where they are at and to get to a no toll or a toll-as-low-possible (scenario)."
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey vowed a "reasonable" toll amount for coastal Alabama commuters early last month, but nothing new has surfaced since May when ALDOT held public meetings to discuss the overall project including the toll range.
A spokeswoman for Ivey said Monday that the bridge project "is certainly a working process," which means that Ivey is "looking at all options."
"The governor understands that this project is a major interest to the people in that area, and she is committing to them that she will work closely with ALDOT and local officials to come to a solution," said Gina Maiola, spokeswoman for Ivey.
The state is pitching a 15% "frequent user" discount for drivers who use the Bayway 20 times or more a month. The entire span of the Bayway, from Virginia Street in Mobile to U.S. 98 in Daphne, is proposed to be part of a segmented tolling plan, which means motorist would be assessed for the amount of the approximately 10-mile portion of the road that they use. The Wallace Tunnel is also expected to be tolled.
As coastal Alabama grapples with toll roads, officials fret about 'toll avoidance'
Proposals to toll both the Wallace Tunnel and the I-10 Mobile River Bridge within the next five to six years has some officials worried it will "alter behavior" with motorists.
Toll positions
Alabama Auditor Jim Zeigler, who is administering a Facebook page called "Block the Mobile Bayway Toll," calls the 15% discount "insulting."
His Facebook page has exploded in membership within the past six weeks, and includes approximately 21,000 people who are overwhelmingly opposed to any tolling whatsoever.
Users have been critical of any local politician who has hinted at supporting even the smallest toll amounts. The most recent example is Mobile Mayor Sandy Stimpson, who said recently that he is confident ALDOT will "reduce the toll amounts."
"We are not for a smaller toll or a discount for locals," said Zeigler. "We are for no tolls."
Zeigler said he believes ALDOT can pay for the project without assessing tolls by scaling back the project to its original $800 million estimate. The project has grown in costs because it calls for a complete replacement of the existing Bayway to a more elevated construction that is above a 100-year storm surge projection.
Zeigler also hopes that state officials will be open to dedicating a quarter of new proceeds from the state's gasoline tax increase for the I-10 bridge project. State officials have said that the $350 million that will be generated annually from the 10-cent-per-gallon fuel tax increase will not go toward major projects like I-10.
State Sen. Chris Elliott, R-Daphne, said he doesn't believe the project "proceeds" at all under the current $3 to $6 toll range. But Elliott also said that some sort of tolling should be assessed in the overall plan.
"The problem with no toll, absent any federal money, is that it puts the entire burden on the state," said Elliott. "I think the people of Louisiana, Mississippi and Florida ought to have to offset that cost. If you say, 'no toll,' then you are giving out-of-state folks a free ride if there isn't any federal money involved."
ALDOT has applied for a $150 million Infrastructure for Rebuilding America (INFRA) grant through the U.S. Department of Transportation.
Byrne said the state opted not to pursue the use of Gulf of Mexico Energy Security Act (GOMESA) resources to offset the need for tolls. GOMESA is part of a program, which began in 2009, that provides millions of dollars to Gulf Coast states from offshore energy leases. Last year, for instance, federal officials announced that Alabama got $21 million in GOMESA funds, with another $5 million going to Mobile and Baldwin counties.
Elliott said the money isn't enough to support the $2.1 billion project, and that some of the money has already been dedicated on other projects. For instance, approximately $8 million in funding is dedicated for adding additional boat ramps along the Intracoastal Waterway in Orange Beach, he said.
"It's the governor's discretion," he said.
'Real burden'
U.S. Rep. Bradley Byrne, R-Fairhope, listens to a constituent during his town hall meeting on Monday, July 8, 2019, at the Magnolia Springs Town Center in Magnolia Springs, Ala. (John Sharp/jsharp@al.com).
Byrne encouraged residents to contact state officials if they have concerns over the project even if ALDOT's public commenting period on the project is completed. A majority of concerns raised during that public commenting period, which ran through the month of May, revolved around the proposed toll.
Bratcher and other residents at the town hall meeting said the impact of the toll amounts are potentially devastating.
"It would cost us $2,500 to $3,000 a year just in tolls for him to get to work," Bratcher said about her husband, who commutes daily along I-10 from Mobile to Baldwin County or on into the Florida Panhandle. "And that doesn't include the fun things we like to do in Baldwin County … the festivals, the Wharf (in Orange Beach), shopping at the Eastern Shore Centre. My mom lives in Loxley."
She added, "It's a real burden."


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back when I was nine or ten.
something to strive for now and then.
Who works magic time and again?
without flinching or feeling guilty?
I hold doors and I follow the plan.
I tell jokes and I'm drug free.
I eat fries and I drive a sedan.
I am doing the best I can.
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L'Angélus est un tableau de Jean-François Millet, peint entre 1857 et 1859, chef-d'œuvre exposé au musée d'Orsay de Paris. Scène champêtre de peinture de paysage et de vie paysanne réaliste, elle représente un couple de paysans de la plaine de Bière qui a posé ses outils de travaux de champs de pomme de terre, à la tombée du jour, pour la prière de l'angélus (prière à Marie, commençant par « Angelus Domini nuntiavit Mariae », soit « l'ange du Seigneur a annoncé à Marie ») sonnée au loin par le clocher de l'église Saint-Paul de Chailly-en-Bière en Île-de-France.

Présentation

À la suite de La Récolte des pommes de terre et Des glaneuses, Millet s'attache dans ce tableau à représenter avec réalisme et délicatesse un aspect de la vie quotidienne des campagnes de son temps. Parallèlement au , .

Ce tableau s'inspire de l'enfance paysanne de Millet : « L'Angélus est un tableau que j'ai fait en pensant comment, en travaillant autrefois dans les champs, ma grand-mère ne manquait pas, en entendant sonner la cloche, de nous faire arrêter notre besogne pour dire l'angélus pour ces pauvres morts ».

Description
Au premier plan, un couple de paysans interrompt sa récolte de pommes de terre. La fourche pour arracher les tubercules du sol est plantée dans la terre, le panier pour les ramasser, et les sacs et la brouette pour les transporter sont laissés sur place. Les deux personnages joignent leurs mains et inclinent leur tête pour prier. À l'arrière-plan est esquissé le clocher de l'église Saint-Paul de Chailly-en-Bière qui apparaît dans la lumière jaune et rose du coucher de soleil.

Historique

Le début de l'histoire du tableau est très mouvementé : il change de propriétaire à de nombreuses reprises et son prix va progressivement battre tous les records de l'époque pour une peinture moderne.

Le commanditaire initial du tableau, l'artiste et collectionneur américain Thomas Gold Appleton, n'en prend pas possession. L'œuvre passe donc d'abord en 1860 dans la collection d'Alfred Feydeau, pour , puis chez Pierre Blanc (beau-père d'Alfred Stevens) en 1870 pour  qui le cède à son frère Arthur Stevens (1825-1890), lequel le revend à Van Praët à Bruxelles pour . Le tableau est échangé en 1874 contre La Grande Bergère de Millet, qui appartenait à Paul Tesse, et est ensuite racheté par Émile Gavet, puis part chez Victor Papeleu, à partir de 1875, et passe par le galeriste Paul Durand-Ruel qui le revend  à un certain John W. Wilson, lequel met en vente ses tableaux le  : c'est Eugène Secrétan qui l'emporte, après tirage au sort, pour . En 1889, Secrétan doit liquider sa collection, menacé d'être ruiné après l'explosion de la bulle spéculative sur le cuivre.

La vente Secrétan est annoncée le  chez le marchand Charles Sedelmeyer. Auparavant, la volonté de rachat du tableau par le musée du Louvre était devenue en France une affaire d'État, opposant la droite royaliste, qui ne voulait pas de cette acquisition, au gouvernement, qui ne voulait pas que le tableau devienne la propriété des musées américains. L'État ne réunissant pas la somme nécessaire, le tableau est acheté chez le marchand Georges Petit pour  par le biais d'Antonin Proust pour le compte du Syndicat des amateurs d'art français le . Le syndicat a déjà réuni  et attend le complément de l'État, mais Proust reçoit une contre-proposition d'un certain Sutton, un Américain représentant une association d'amateurs d'art. L'État ne trouvant pas l'argent, Sutton remporte la mise. Il revend le tableau l'année suivante à Alfred Chauchard pour .

Chauchard le lègue à sa mort en 1909 à l'État, qui l'attribue au musée du Louvre, qui le transfère au musée d'Orsay lors de sa création en 1986.

C'est cette forte augmentation du prix de l'œuvre, qui permit aux propriétaires successifs de réaliser un profit considérable tandis que les héritiers de Millet vivaient dans la misère, qui a conduit à l'introduction du droit de suite dans le droit français.

Postérité
Des variations de ce tableau de Millet apparaissent dans plusieurs de ses propres peintures.

L'Angélus a été très largement reproduit sur des supports tels que des calendriers, des canevas, des meubles ou des cahiers d'écolier. Il est ainsi devenu une sorte de symbole de la peinture populaire.

Cette œuvre a aussi été copiée ou réinterprétée par d'autres artistes des .

Salvador Dalí en particulier était fasciné par ce travail, et lui a consacré en 1963 un livre entier, le Mythe tragique de l'Angélus de Millet. Dalí y écrit que les paysans figurant sur le tableau n'étaient pas simplement en prière pour l'Angélus, mais qu'ils se recueillaient devant un petit cercueil. Sur son insistance, le Louvre fait radiographier le tableau, ce qui révèle, à la place du panier, un caisson noir, que le peintre surréaliste interprète comme le cercueil d'un enfant de .

Il lui a en outre inspiré ses tableaux L'Angélus architectonique de Millet et Réminiscence archéologique de l'Angélus de Millet.

En bande dessinée, L'Angélus donne son titre à un album de Frank Giroud au scénario et de José Homs au dessin. Le protagoniste est un terne représentant de commerce qui ressent une émotion si forte lorsqu'il découvre un jour le tableau de Millet que cette obsession l'amènera à faire de nombreuses découvertes et à remettre profondément en cause le sens même de son existence. Dans le manga Les Gouttes de Dieu, ce tableau est utilisé pour décrire un Château Mouton Rothschild 1982.

En 1988, le tableau introduit le clip de la reprise par le groupe britannique The Christians de la chanson Harvest for the World du groupe américain The Isley Brothers sorti en 1976.

Notes et références

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Articles connexes

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 L'Angélus architectonique de Millet
 Église Saint-Paul de Chailly-en-Bière

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Anakbayan Canada, its chapters, and its affiliate organization, joyously and militantly celebrates International Workers' Day. We join the working class in the Philippines and around the world as we continue to advance the struggle against exploitation and for a brighter, socialist future free from imperialism.
2020 was a year of extraordinary challenges. The demands of keeping economies running, families fed, and essential services functioning during the pandemic fell squarely on the shoulders of the working class. Now, more than a year after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global capitalist crisis, exposed and exacerbated by the impact of the coronavirus, continues to worsen.
Filipino workers in Canada, especially migrant workers and youth, are disproportionately overrepresented in sectors that are deemed "essential" from long-term care homes, to meat-packing plants, to grocery stores, to custodial work. Workers fear contracting the virus from unsafe working conditions yet they remain underpaid and overexploited by capitalist society. Despite contributing the most to essential services, the Filipino community is one of communities hardest hit by COVID-19 and continues to be underserved when it comes to vaccine provision.
In the Philippines, workers in the cities fight for regular jobs, living wages, workplace protections, health and safety provisions and social services. The peasants in the countryside struggle against feudal exploitation and land-grabbing. In their resistance, people's rights activists–from unionists to land defenders to youth leaders–are red-tagged, harassed, arrested, and even killed. The intense militarized response of the Duterte government is due to the unwavering strength of the revolutionary worker-peasant struggle in resisting exploitation.
As young Filipinos working in the diaspora, we connect our issues here to the situation of the broad masses in our homeland and to our long, proud tradition of the struggle of the workers and peasants and other oppressed and exploited sectors. We unite with our kababayan to condemn the neoliberal policies and state terror of the Philippine government that have caused so much suffering for our compatriots.
There is a silver lining to the dark cloud that is the COVID-19 pandemic: by exposing the rotten nature of capitalism, workers around the world are awakening to the necessity of uniting against systemic and government-sanctioned oppression. Fascist governments using COVID-19 as a cover to enact more repressive crackdowns on dissent and legitimate critique are being met with the righteous militancy of the people. From the Philippines to Palestine to India to Nigeria and into the heart of the imperial core, workers are uniting with the masses to strike, to protest, and to mobilize against the reactionary forces of US imperialism and its allies.
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HMS Princess Royal (1773) — 98-пушечный линейный корабль второго ранга. Третий корабль Королевского флота, названный в честь принцесс королевской крови. Заказан в 10 сентября 1767. Спущен на воду 18 октября 1773 на королевской верфи в Портсмуте.

При постройке имел рейтинг 90-пушечного. Во время общего довооружения кораблей 2 ранга повышен до 98-пушечного установкой восьми 12-фунтовых пушек на шканцы.

1779 — был при Гренаде.

1782 — с флотом адмирала Хау участвовал в снятии осады с Гибралтара и был у мыса Спартель.

1795 — был в составе флота Нельсона при Генуе, затем у Йерских островов.

Отправлен на слом и разобран в 1807 году.

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Fatty acid desaturase 2 (Fads2) encodes the delta-6 desaturase (D6D) enzyme, which is rate-limiting for the endogenous production of omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA). Numerous studies have reported the cardiometabolic health benefits of omega-3 LC-PUFA. Humans carrying genetic variants in the FADS2 gene have reduced levels of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), as well as oxylipins, in blood, erythrocytes and white adipose tissue (WAT). Similar findings have been reported in whole-body Fads2−/− mice fed a diet deficient in omega-3 LC-PUFA. The objective of this study was to determine if a diet containing EPA and DHA would prevent the deficiencies in WAT lipid profiles seen in Fads2−/− mice fed a diet containing only ALA. Male C57BL/6 J Fads2−/− and wild type (WT) mice were fed a low fat (7% w/w) diet for 9 weeks containing either flaxseed oil + ARASCO (FD, containing~53% ALA) or menhaden oil (MD, containing~14% EPA and 10% DHA). Fads2−/− mice fed an ALA-enriched diet had reduced body weight, little-to-no omega-3 LC-PUFA and a near complete loss of all omega-3 derived oxylipins in both epididymal and inguinal WAT (P<.05) compared to their WT counterparts, as well as altered expression of key regulators of the fatty acid desaturase pathway. However, Fads2−/− mice fed a diet containing EPA and DHA prevented most of these changes. This study provides evidence that a diet containing EPA and DHA provides a nutritional strategy to prevent alterations in WAT lipid content caused by reduced D6D activity.
Dietary EPA and DHA prevent changes in white adipose tissue omega-3 PUFA and oxylipin content associated with a Fads2 deficiency. / Sarr, Ousseynou; Payne, George W.; Hucik, Barbora; Abdelmagid, Salma; Nakamura, Manabu T; Ma, David W.L.; Mutch, David M.
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Sarr, Ousseynou ; Payne, George W. ; Hucik, Barbora ; Abdelmagid, Salma ; Nakamura, Manabu T ; Ma, David W.L. ; Mutch, David M. / Dietary EPA and DHA prevent changes in white adipose tissue omega-3 PUFA and oxylipin content associated with a Fads2 deficiency. In: Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry. 2019 ; Vol. 63. pp. 140-149.
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AB - Fatty acid desaturase 2 (Fads2) encodes the delta-6 desaturase (D6D) enzyme, which is rate-limiting for the endogenous production of omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFA). Numerous studies have reported the cardiometabolic health benefits of omega-3 LC-PUFA. Humans carrying genetic variants in the FADS2 gene have reduced levels of eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA), as well as oxylipins, in blood, erythrocytes and white adipose tissue (WAT). Similar findings have been reported in whole-body Fads2−/− mice fed a diet deficient in omega-3 LC-PUFA. The objective of this study was to determine if a diet containing EPA and DHA would prevent the deficiencies in WAT lipid profiles seen in Fads2−/− mice fed a diet containing only ALA. Male C57BL/6 J Fads2−/− and wild type (WT) mice were fed a low fat (7% w/w) diet for 9 weeks containing either flaxseed oil + ARASCO (FD, containing~53% ALA) or menhaden oil (MD, containing~14% EPA and 10% DHA). Fads2−/− mice fed an ALA-enriched diet had reduced body weight, little-to-no omega-3 LC-PUFA and a near complete loss of all omega-3 derived oxylipins in both epididymal and inguinal WAT (P<.05) compared to their WT counterparts, as well as altered expression of key regulators of the fatty acid desaturase pathway. However, Fads2−/− mice fed a diet containing EPA and DHA prevented most of these changes. This study provides evidence that a diet containing EPA and DHA provides a nutritional strategy to prevent alterations in WAT lipid content caused by reduced D6D activity.


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"Mandarin Gate" is Eliot Pattison's 7th novel in the Inspector Shan series. Shan is a fictional character, but through his experiences the reader gets a true-to-life picture of what is happening in modern-day Tibet. Shan recognizes that China is trying to absorb Tibet "from the inside out" through massive resettlement of ethnic Chinese dissidents and Chinese gangs, herding of nomads into settlement camps where there is little hope of the people being able to produce sufficient food and shelter to live, by sending dissidents to hard labor "gulags," and locking up Tibetans in reeducation camps for months on end even when their only infraction is being a relative of someone who is considered a dissident. Spies are everywhere–even in the monasteries and abbeys that serve as a refuge and inspiration for the Tibetan people. Shan does what he can to uncover injustice and neutralize those who perpetrate atrocities. He has learned that he cannot always permanently eliminate evil in the world, but he can counterbalance it a little.
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Elon Musk entertained a flurry of Twitter requests over the weekend made by Tesla owners who asked for new vehicle features ranging from auto-closing sunroofs that can detect rain, to an easy-entry/exit function for Model S, Model X and Model 3 drivers. Both of which he agreed would be introduced in one of the upcoming over-the-air software updates.
However, Musk's latest tweet goes beyond a confirmation on a feature intended for a single vehicle. Rather, Tesla is looking to leverage its data gathering expertise to create a cloud-based driver's profile that can be accessed on any Tesla in the world.
"We are going to move all info and settings to the 'cloud' (aka servers) so any Tesla you drive in the world automatically adjusts to you" read the tweet from Musk.
The ability to store a Tesla driver's settings in the cloud is akin to the "save this password" feature found on web browsers. Google and Apple have popularized this convenience feature by allowing users's of the Chrome and Safari browser, respectively, to share their bookmarks, passwords and browsing history across browsers, regardless of which computer it's being accessed from. Tesla is looking to do the same thing by allowing driver's to share their seat, side mirror, steering wheel settings, and beyond, across all vehicle's within the Tesla fleet. Presumably this feature would also extend to passengers especially as the company aims to roll out its Full Self-Driving Capability and implement an autonomous ride-sharing fleet known as the 'Tesla Network' that could bring radical change to the way we own cars.
Having a shared profile agnostic of a rider's ownership status – whether they're a Tesla owner, renter of a Tesla, or passenger riding within the Tesla Network – allows the company to provide value-add services to its customers on a fleetwide basis, and all done through a seamless over-the-air software update.


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Hatha Yoga is a significant measure towards gaining control over your actions and directing the energies in the desired direction. It involves the stepwise movement of the body, then mind, emotions and eventually energies. The space we are breathing in is the 84th creation and therefore we have 84 Yogasanas. Each asana can open gateways to comprehend every aspect of a single creation.
Of these 84 Yogasanas, 33 are of utmost importance to present human race which Evolution Retreats has included under its Hatha Yoga modules. There will be an introduction to Shatkarma, Bandha and Pranayam respectively.
To lead an incredible life on this Blue Planet, Earth, Hatha Yoga is the panacea.
There will be various meditation sessions where you can create what you want to create in your life. These meditation addresses various aspects of your life.
All the eight limbs of yoga will be addressed in such a way that it becomes a part of your life. Various talks and videos will elaborate various secrets of life.


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German billionaire, Herr Conrad Schlotz, controls all European Videotex services . His nubile, out-of-control daughter, Anke, is determined to have her 17th. The second season of Archer debuts tonight on FX at 10 p.m. Eastern. So i just watched the episode swiss miss where archer met this girl anka, she was always seducing him throughout the episode and in the last.
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Kerala HC notice to govt, Lulu mall on illegal parking fee
The Kerala High Court on Tuesday issued notice to the state govt, a muncipality and the Lulu International shopping mall at Ernakulam, on a plea that the mall was illegally collecting the parking fee from customers
The petitioner, a film director, moved the high court after Rs 20 as parking fee was collected from him when he had visited the mall on Dec 2
He has alleged that the mall staff closed the exit gates and threatened him when he initially refused to pay the amount
During the hearing on Tuesday, it was argued that the mall does not have the licence to collect parking fees from customers
HC directives on removal of encroachments on Adheenam land
The Madras High Court has directed the Tamil Nadu Hindu Religious and Charitable Endowments (HR&CE) dept to take appropriate steps to remove the encroachments on the lands belonging to Thiruvavaduthurai Adheenam in Tenkasi
Justice R Mahadevan gave the direction last week, while disposing of a petition from Kasidarmam Panchayat Union, by its president in Kadayanallur in Tenkasi and three others
Disposing of the petition, the judge directed the Kadayanallur Panchayat Union Commissioner to make a request with regard to removal of encroachments to the Commissioner of HR&CE dept in Chennai


Duluth Harbor Cam: Blue Moon through the Duluth North Pier Lighthouse!
Awesome picture and passage, Dennis. Thank you!
Beautiful picture, thanks. Canal Camera's down.
Denny, Kent and I are in awe of your artistry, always. This is particularly magnificent, and we love the scripture you chose to shine on it. Thank you for sharing your incredible talent, Friend!!
and the Glory of God shown over all creation!
Thanks for the great photo and the passage that you attached to it.


How do you like your cendol? With kacang merah (red beans), pulut (glutinous rice) or both? I like my cendol to come with both – because it tastes better and I'm greedy. After a satisfying lunch at Wan Li, my friends and I decided to try the cendol from Ansari Famous Cendol at Jalan Barack.
Spanning over three generations, Ansari was founded by Abdul Kader, who opened his cendol stall in 1940. Unlike most cendol stalls I've been to, Ansari is a shoplot with tables and chairs inside. Prices range from RM1.10 for the plain cendol to RM1.60 for the kacang + pulut version. I immediately chose the latter, while the rest of the gang had the kacang cendol (RM1.20).
You can also order the pasembor (RM2.60) from the stall next to Ansari cendol. The pasembor tasted average to me. I thought the gravy wasn't thick or flavourful enough. That said, it was reasonably priced and good enough to go with the cendol.
The cendol however, was a different story. This sweet and creamy concoction had a mix of tastes and textures. It had a slight bite from the red beans and was slightly chewy from the pulut. The cendol had just the right amount of sweetness from the palm sugar syrup and the pulut gave it a slightly salty flavour. Good stuff!
Verdict: The cendol had a good balance of tastes and textures. Try this when you're in Taiping.
*Stay tuned for my next update on Ansari's contender, Bismillah Cendol located not too far away!
how does it rate compared to the "more famous" melaka/penang cendols?
timing – It's different from the cendol from Malacca/Penang. But I like the Bukit Rambai cendol (Malacca) better.


Continued working today on the story of the evacuation trek through central Sumatra in February and March, 1942.
The British, Australian, New Zealand, Indian and Asian soldiers and evacuees were waiting desperately for an evacuation ship, the Chilka to arrive before the Japanese attack.
A Japanese submarine surfaced and shelled the Chilka on March 11, 1942, sinking the freighter off the island of Nias, off Sumatra.
Record of Japanese submarine I-2 that sunk the Chilka.
As I was working on this part of the book, I realized that it was the island of Nias that was struck by the magnitude 8.7 earthquake hours earlier.
CBC News stories on Nias.
Andrew Sullivan's "The Torture Memos"
In my post on January 20, I said that Andrew Sullivan's review in the New York Times, the Torture Memos" was worth reading. It's about two books outlining, through the released and leaked memos, what happened at Abu Ghraib and the policy of torture.
The Ghraib book reviewed by Sullivan that I bought is Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib and the War on Terror by Mark Danner, New York Review of Books. It has the essays by Mark Danner and almost of all the key documents.
Sullivan has now put a copy of that review on his blogsite, for those who want to read it here's the link.
Spent the day writing, aiming toward my April 8 deadline for Sonkrai.
I was working on a chapter about the little-known escape route from Singapore across the South China Sea, then across central Sumatra to Padang (thousands of service personnel and civilians made that trek) when the news came on the television of a new major earthquake to hit Sumatra--just at the moment I was looking at my National Geographic map of Indonesia to figure out one of those escape routes.
But to rest the grey cells for a while, converted the old html blog to a real one.
I met Brian MacArthur, an editor with The Times of London, in February, 2002, when we both went to Singapore to attend the academic conference that marked the 60th anniversary of the fall of the city to the Japanese. We were both there to work on books on Far East Prisoners of War.
Brian was working on an overview on the experience of the prisoners, British, Australian, American and Dutch, through memoirs, diaries and interviews.
I was interested in telling the story of one group, F Force, and the trial of the Japanese and Korean guards in those camps.
Surviving the Sword tells the story of what happened in those Japanese prison camps through memory, whether those memories are recorded in an interview, a diary or a book. And MacArthur's book is valuable compiliation of those memories.
With both my family interest and my research, I have, of course, ordered a copy, to add to the shelves of Far East Prisoner of War books, most I inherited from my father, and others I purchased as part of my research.
Brian MacArthur, was a colleague, not a rival, and was always helpful when I had a research question. And I helped him where I could.
UK edition, available March 29, 2005.
In the United States, order either the UK edition of Surviving the Sword (March 29) or US edition (June 2005) from Amazon.com.
My research has turned up the fact that in the first week of December, 1941, a top secret United States Navy task force was bound for Basra, Iraq. And some of the men who later appeared before the Sonkrai Tribunal were part of that task force.
The mission was cancelled on December 8, 1941 hours after the attack on Pearl Harbour.
So why I haven't I updated the sorta-blog in about two months? A couple of bouts of illness, first a cold, and then a nasty flu that was going around the office that made me take four days off work, left me drained for another week, which meant in the past five weeks or so, I was reduced to writing perhaps a paragraph a night for most of the time that I wasn't ill. But at the same time I did get even that little done when I could and thus I am on track to finish the book by early April.
I have had to take two weeks of annual leave to get it done, but the final manuscript should be on its way to the publisher by April 8 at the latest.
A blog search turned up a link to a backgrounder I wrote in 2003 for CBC.ca on the changing demographics and the politics of Iran, called Iran Facing A Demographic Revolution. (It's since been updated by our research staff).
The backgrounder was cited by Imad-ad-Dean Ahmad at a conference in Washington in May, 2004 in a paper called "The Challenge of Institutional Governance in Islam: Justice, Democracy and Shariah". (PDF file will open in a new window).
Ahmad, who teaches at the University of Maryland, is also president and director of The Minaret Institute of Freedom, which says on its website that it is dedicated to "educate Muslims on the importance of liberty and free markets to a good society..."
I found out about this when a search turned up a copy of the paper on the Kashkul blog.


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Someone Is Impersonating Bitcoin Futures Platfom Bakkt to Raise Money
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Someone is poorly impersonating the highly anticipated bitcoin futures trading platform Bakkt in an apparent attempt to bilk people out of their bitcoin.
On Wednesday night, the CoinDesk news team received an email (subject line: "Bakkt News!") claiming that the platform was set to launch on March 12. The email, sent from a gmail address and written in broken English, further stated that Bakkt would be seeking to raise $50 million in a second financing round and directed readers to a website, bakktplatform.io.
There, prospective investors are invited to register by entering their name and email address. After going through this process, visitors are presented with a bitcoin address to send their money and asked to provide their own address to receive their "profits" from the investment.
As of Thursday morning, no funds had been sent to the wallet.
The site (registered just a week ago through WhoisGuard, a domain owner-obscuring service in Panama, according to a WHOIS lookup) is a fake.
A spokesperson for Intercontinental Exchange (ICE), Bakkt's parent company, told CoinDesk: "that is not a Bakkt website and we wouldn't have communicated in that way."
Further, the email's claims about Bakkt are dubious at best.
No launch date
For starters, Bakkt has no official launch date right now.
The platform is still waiting on regulatory approval to begin listing its futures product, and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) is nowhere near such an approval.
Indeed, the CFTC has not even published Bakkt's self-warehousing proposal for comment. Once that proposal is released, the general public will have 30 days to respond. After the comment period ends, the CFTC's commissioners will likely take a few days to review the feedback before voting to approve or deny the proposal.
In that light, a March 12 launch date would be an aggressive target – and just to be clear, Bakkt has made no such commitment.
Even more implausible, however, is the email's announcement of a "Second Financing Round."
First, Bakkt just raised $182.5 million at the close of 2018, less than two months ago. And it strains credulity to imagine that a regulated institutional platform would solicit funds from the general public through a website, require just a name and email address to invest (though "company" and "industry" are optional fields on the registration form) and accept bitcoin only.
"We are at the stage of completing the testing of Blockchain on our platform, our tests have shown high results of efficiency and manufacturability using Blockchain technology in contrast to Fiat," the bogus Bakkt website explains (sorta). "Тhe near future we plan to create the first regulated exchange of the institutional class in a developing industry and much more [sic]."
If that pitch isn't persuasive enough, the site promises investors a return within three days of the platform's launch (so by March 15, presumably). Perhaps appealing to FOMO, it says the platform will conclude its fundraising effort on Feb. 25, unless it hits the target before that date.
In all seriousness, please don't send funds to this platform. Investors who do are unlikely to see their bitcoin again.
"What this Bakkt" and bitcoin address signup screenshots from bakktplatform.io
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Review of Dust Bowl Girls
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Reeder, Lydia. Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team that Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory. Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, 2017. Pp. 304. Notes. $26.95 hardcover.
Reviewed by Cat Ariail
At first glance, 1932 appears to have been a banner year for Babe Didrikson. The so-called "Wonder Girl" romped to five titles at the National AAU Women's Track and Field Championship before claiming a pair of golds and a single silver during the track and field competition at the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
Yet, is it possible Didrikson's track and field dominance derived from lingering disappointment? For, on the basketball court, the world's best female athlete had been unable to assert her will. The Oklahoma Presbyterian College (OPC) Cardinals, led by the indomitable Doll Harris, thrice bested Didrikson and her Dallas Employers Casualty Insurance Golden Cyclones during the 1932 season, including a thrilling 35-32 showdown to win the National AAU Women's Basketball Championship. Harris, a barely five-foot tall part Irish and part Cherokee spitfire from Cement, Oklahoma, was named captain of the 1932 AAU All-American team, taking the honor that would have been assumed to belong to Didrikson.
Algonquin Books, 2017.
Lydia Reeder, a Denver-based copywriter and editor, tells the fascinating story of Harris and her OPC teammates in Dust Bowl Girls: The Inspiring Story of the Team that Barnstormed Its Way to Basketball Glory. The story of the Cardinals is part of Reeder's family history; her great uncle, Sam Babb, coached the champion squad. But her personal connection to the material does not detrimentally color her work. Rather than a simple, celebratory narrative of Babb, Reeder offers a contextualized and historicized account of rural, working-class women's college basketball during the height of the Great Depression. She transforms the story of the OPC Cardinals into one of more than narrative recovery, using the compelling experiences of Harris and the other Cardinals to add texture to the historical understanding of women's basketball and working-class women's sport during the early 1930s.
Reeder pens an engaging story due to cleverly combining meticulous research with a flair for creativity. Along with collecting clippings and archival material from various university and local libraries in the region of Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana where OPC barnstormed in 1932, Reeder relied on former Cardinal Virginia Hamilton Childers to guide her research. Hamilton Childers helped Reeder contact the family members of other former Cardinals, who provided her with scrapbooks, letters, and other ephemera, including the unpublished autobiography of Lucille Thurman, starting center for the 1932 champion Cardinals. Reeder uses this information not only to reconstruct games and events, but also to imagine how the young female athletes experienced them.
Her approach is evident in her use of Lucille Thurman's autobiography. Reeder chronicles Thurman's struggle with her anxiety throughout the narrative, capturing how the five-foot ten-inch sixteen-year-old from Cookietown, Oklahoma managed her nerves as she established herself as OPC's starting center. For example, Reeder envisions that, even after sinking the game sealing shot at the national championship and earning All-American honors, Thurman dwelled on her inability to secure the game's opening tip.
Reeder also captures the degree to which playing basketball provided heretofore unimaginable experiences for these young female athletes. During the 1931-32 Christmas holiday, OPC barnstormed across Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, and Louisiana, an exciting but potentially unnerving opportunity for young farm girls from Oklahoma who had never spent Christmas away from their families. For instance, Reeder imagines Lera and Vera Dunford, six-foot tall red-head twins who would play for the famous All-American World Champion Redheads after their time at OPC, excitedly sending their family a Christmas telegram. She also envisions a homesick La Homa Lassiter having an emotional breakdown upon returning to her dorm room following their three-week (and undefeated) Christmas break barnstorm, distraught that she had missed spending the holidays with her family.
Reeder's peek into the mind of Doll Harris proves most perceptive, as she uses Harris's possible thoughts to consider how these young women wrestled with expectations of gender and sexuality. For instance, the Harris who boldly ran the streets downtown of Durant when she first arrived at OPC becomes concerned about her femininity, telling herself, "Think pretty, look pretty, be pretty," (pp. 157). Reeder imagines that, as the Cardinals prepared to take on the Golden Cyclones, Harris compared herself to Didrikson, taking pride in her "petite features" that contrasted with Didrikson's "angular nose and chin," (pp. 167). She also envisions Harris struggling with her sexuality, intimating her attractions to teammate Toka Lee Fields and Coach Babb.
With these narrative liberties, Reeder captures how ideologies operated at the individual level. Throughout her work, Reeder inserts discussions of larger social debates about the appropriateness, or lack thereof, of women's basketball. She details the developments familiar to historians of women's sport, summarizing the battles between female physical educators opposed to competition, led by First Lady Lou Henry Hoover and the Women's Division of the National Amateur Athletic Association, and the primarily male controlled AAU, which supported competition.
Reeder rightly notes that, "Most of the OPC Cardinals didn't know that the Women's Division existed," but she also recognizes that the ideological assumptions about gender and sexuality that drove these national debates filtered down to young female athletes who, even if unaware of the machinations of Hoover and her associates, implicitly understood that their love for competitive basketball made them different (pp. 92). For example, she imagines Lassiter, considered the team's most beautiful player, asking Babb, who also taught psychology, "Can you promise me that playing with the Cardinals won't destroy my ability to be a lady?" (pp. 78). "Yes, I can make you that promise. Basketball encourages all ladylike abilities, especially critical thinking and good judgement. You came here a lady, and I want you to leave here a better lady," the coach replied in Reeder's retelling (pp. 92).
Babb's response introduces some of the other interesting insights Reeder sprinkles throughout her narrative. She emphasizes the ways in which her great uncle applied his psychological background in coaching the Cardinals. Babb considered basketball a "laboratory for life," (pp. 74). He resisted the specialization that the six-versus-six rules (which featured three offensive forwards and three defensive guards) encouraged, instead insisting upon the importance of anticipation. Babb ran practices where players switched positions every ten minutes, placing them in unfamiliar on-court circumstances in order to help refine their physical and mental skill sets.
The coach cultivated a permissive and progressive, yet pragmatic and paternalistic, women's basketball culture, expertly managing social expectations and athletic opportunities. His balancing act made he and OPC rather exceptional, as most colleges privileged physical education and shunned competition, while employer- or civic-sponsored teams favored competition. OPC diverged from this paradigm, making their story more significant. By including information on the founding of the town of Durant, the region's Choctaw legacy, the development of OPC as a religious and service-oriented all-girls institution, and the cultural attitudes of the rural, Depression-era west, Reeder provides the context necessary for understanding how the team seemingly could defy social conventions to achieve athletic success.
A 1932-33 OPC team photo of Doll Harris, La Home Lassiter, Irene Williams, Vera Dunford, Lucille Thurman, and Coral Worley.
Reeder's narrative features an array of other entertaining nuggets. Along with Thurman, Harris, the Dunford twins, Fields, and Lassiter, she introduces the reader to the rest of the Cardinals, such as Bo-Peep Park, who served as bus driver, as well as mechanic, during their barnstorm. She likewise conveys the excitement and intensity of the Cardinals' three battles with the Golden Cyclones, including their second match-up that temporarily devolved into a game of "hack-a-Doll" and "hack-a-Babe," although the two stars proved able to sink their free throws, foiling the strategies of Babb and Cyclones coach Melvin McCombs. The book also contains a collection of compelling photographs, featuring posed shots of the Cardinals in their stylishly-cut silk uniforms, a peek into the material culture of the period.
Overall, the story of the OPC Cardinals is one of an inspiring underdog. However, Reeder successfully makes it more than that, telling an engaging story while providing analytical contributions to women's sport history. OPC's history is unique but illustrative. In an undergraduate course, Reeder's book would be an excellent companion to academic analyses of women's basketball and physical education from the pre-war era, such as Susan Cahn's Coming on Strong, Rita Liberti's "We Were Ladies, We Just Played Like Boys," Pamela Grundy's "From Amazons to Glamazons," and Martha Verbrugge's Active Bodies.
Cat Ariail is a PhD candidate in the Department of History of the University of Miami. She researches gender, race, and nationalism in mid-twentieth track and field. You can contact her at cat.m.ariail@gmail.com.
18 March 2017 in book review, Cat Ariail. Tags: book review, women's basketball
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For more than three decades, Anderson University has been home to Ravens Soccer, offering players the opportunity to grow as athletes, students, and people of faith during their time on campus. Women's soccer began a few years later with the same mission of supporting the whole player.
Now, alumni and friends have the opportunity to pitch in and support the next step for this sport as they work to construct a stadium where they currently have only a field.
The first stage of this project includes bleachers, fencing, sprinkler system, concession stand, landscaping, signage, team areas, restroom, video tower, tailgate gazebo, and electrical work for the press box and team area. To accomplish this goal, they are working to raise $128,000.
As of April 2019, supporters had given just more than $100,000, for which coaches and players are very grateful. You can help play a role in supporting this project by giving what you can and spreading the word to others who might be interested in supporting this goal!
From California to North Carolina, Ravens have been coming together in support of the Stadium 2018 project. Some are four-year players like 1997 grad Ben Guthrie or 2004 grad Jon Barleycorn. Others may have played only part of the time or cheered on the team from the sidelines. No matter who you are or how much you give to the cause, we are grateful to our supporters!
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