WASHINGTON —The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs spent about $5 million for conferences that are drawing scrutiny from Congress and the agency's internal watchdog amid concern about potentially lavish government conferences and improper gifts to planners.
Months after a scandal and shake-up at the General Services Administration over a lavish conference there, Congress and the department's inspector general are looking into two 2011 VA training conferences in Orlando, Fla., which included $52,000 for a parody video and $84,000 for promotional items such as pens.
"A series of interviews have uncovered questionable activities and we have notified both the Secretary and Congress of these issues," the VA inspector general's office said in a statement issued last week.
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, said she has sent a letter to Eric Shinseki, secretary of the Department of Veterans' Affairs, about the spending.
"Should these allegations prove true, I expect to see that those responsible are held accountable and the implementation of immediate corrections to prevent such abuses in the future," Collins said.
She also asked to be kept informed on issues relating to conference spending, training costs and reforms to prevent similar concerns.
"Despite the apparently legitimate purpose of these training conferences, there can be no excuse for excessive or wasteful spending of VA resources," Collins said.
The VA oversees health and other benefits for 20 million military veterans.
He said the Orlando meetings bore "eerie similarities" to a lavish $820,000 General Services Administration training conference in 2010. Uproar over it prompted the ouster of the agency's chief this year and a management shakeup.
The GSA's inspector general also reported last month about a GSA awards ceremony in November 2010 that cost at least $268,732. That report drew attacks from Republican lawmakers about wasteful spending under President Barack Obama.
The VA inspector general's office has said that at least seven people in the department's Washington headquarters traveled to Nashville, Tenn.; Dallas; and Orlando to scout possible locations even though the VA has staff in each of those cities, Issa wrote.
In a statement, the VA said it was cooperating with the investigation and Shinseki had removed the purchasing authority of employees in the work unit being investigated.
Shinseki "will hold accountable any individuals who are found to have misused taxpayer dollars or violated our standards of conduct," it said.
The inspector general's office said it expected to have a report by the end of September.


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StockMarketWire.com - Future on Friday acquired MoNa Mobile Nations for an initial $55m expanding its reach in the US.
Mobile Nations was focused on consumer electronics, combining content, community and commerce to deliver shopping enablement solutions, with its key brands including Android Central, iMore, Windows Central and Thrifter, the company said.
Mobile Nations' brands had a monthly audience of over 40m technology enthusiasts and support consumers.
Mobile Nations achieved revenue of $16.4m and earnings (EBITDA) of $8.2m in year ended 31 December 2018.
The transaction was expected to be earnings enhancing in the current financial year and materially earnings enhancing in the first full year following completion, Future said.
Under the terms of the deal, Future agreed to pay an initial US$55m on completion of the acquisition with a further $5m to be satisfied through shares.
The total level of variable deferred consideration payable would be based on Mobile Nations achieving financial targets based on the year ending 31 March 2020 and was capped at $60m, the company said.
'This acquisition will further strengthen our market leading position in technology an d extend our growing presence in the US. Mobile Nations' consumer electronics brands, which combine content, community and commerce to deliver shopping enablement solutions, are highly complementary to our existing portfolio,' said Zillah Byng-Thorne, CEO of Future.
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Auburn, CA.
Auburn, California 95604 Homes For Sales
Auburn is the county seat of Placer County, California. Its population was 13,330 during the 2010 census. Auburn is known for its California Gold Rush history, and is registered as a California Historical Landmark.
Auburn is part of Greater Sacramento and is home to the Auburn State Recreation Area. The park is the site of more sporting endurance events than any other place in the world, giving Auburn the undisputed and internationally acclaimed title of Endurance Capital of the World. Examples include the Western States Endurance Run; the Western States Trail Ride, also known as Tevis Cup Equestrian Ride; American River 50 Mile Endurance Run; American River 50 Mile Equestrian Ride; Way Too Cool 50 Kilometer Endurance Run; Auburn International Half-Ironman Triathlon; Auburn Century 100 Mile Bike Ride, Coolest 24 Hour Mountain Bike Race, Rio Del Lago 100 Mile Endurance Run, Sierra Nevada 50 Mile Endurance Run, and the Coolest Run: Ride & Tie.
The population was spread out with 2,645 people (19.8%) under the age of 18, 1,031 people (7.7%) aged 18 to 24, 2,898 people (21.7%) aged 25 to 44, 4,224 people (31.7%) aged 45 to 64, and 2,532 people (19.0%) who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 45.4 years. For every 100 females there were 89.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 86.1 males.
There were 6,139 housing units at an average density of 856.7 per square mile (330.8/km²), of which 3,388 (58.8%) were owner-occupied, and 2,371 (41.2%) were occupied by renters. The homeowner vacancy rate was 2.0%; the rental vacancy rate was 6.5%. 8,017 people (60.1% of the population) lived in owner-occupied housing units and 5,035 people (37.8%) lived in rental housing units.


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Il Dipartimento dell'educazione di Porto Rico (in spagnolo:  Departamento de Educación o  DE) è l'ente governativo portoricano responsabile di ripartire l'educazione primaria e secondaria di carattere pubblico.

L'amministrazione del DE riguarda 610.000 studenti, 42.000 docenti e 1.538 istituti scolastici.

Il 1º maggio 2006 il governo portoricano ha dovuto far fronte a un significante deficit monetario, che lo ha costretto a chiudere il DE e altri 42 enti governativi, nonché tutti gli istituti scolastici pubblici.

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Do You Need a Lawyer Against State Farm | Purchase, George & Murphey, P.C.
The case began when an elderly driver went through a stop sign in Millcreek, PA. A young woman and her mother were biking on the cross street. The car struck the young woman and she was thrown into the air. She landed on her head and back. Her mother and passersby rushed to her side. She had a concussion from the car accident and was groggy. She was made to lie still while emergency crews were summoned.
The EMTs soon arrived. The young woman was strapped to a backboard and taken to the emergency room. Fortunately, her concussion was a minor one and she had no broken bones. But she had significant sprain/strain injuries to her back that required narcotic medication to control the pain. After an evening in the E.R., she was released to her family and told to follow up with her family doctor.
Over the next several months, the young woman went through physical therapy and several follow-up appointments with her doctor. She steadily improved but never fully recovered. She'd reached the point where no further physical therapy was warranted and there was no surgery that could help her. But she found that her back still flared up when she exerted herself. She was able to finish her college degree and went to work full-time in her chosen career. However, this formerly active woman found herself limited in her ability to run and exercise.
The elderly driver who struck this young woman felt terrible about the bicycle accident. From the beginning, the vehicle driver made it clear that she felt responsible for the accident and for the injuries she caused. But the elderly driver was insured by State Farm Insurance Company and they did not share their insured's sense of responsibility.
State Farm learned that the injured woman had a history of an eating disorder. They learned from her records that there were events in her life that she might not want to publish to a jury, that might embarrass her or even taint a jury's impression of her. State Farm offered this young woman just enough money to pay her medical bills but almost nothing to compensate her for her pain and suffering or for her ongoing limitations. To people experienced in personal injury claims, State Farm's offer was absurdly low.
The young woman didn't know whether she was being treated fairly. She had no experience in insurance or personal injury litigation. She only knew what she was being told by the State Farm adjustor: "This is all your case is worth. We're not offering any more." Fortunately, the young woman had a relative who was an Erie lawyer. Her relative didn't practice injury law and so he didn't know whether the offer was a fair one, but he knew who he could turn to for good advice. He referred the young woman to the Erie car accident lawyers at Purchase, George & Murphey, P.C.
The case progressed as so many do. State Farm denied that the elderly driver was responsible for the accident (even though she was plainly willing to admit responsibility). We went through written discovery where the insurance defense lawyers probed even more deeply into our client's medical history. The insurance defense lawyer put our young lady through a deposition and we deposed the elderly woman who struck our client with her car. The elderly woman wanted nothing to do with the case. She told us at her deposition that the memory of the accident was still a nightmare for her. State Farm, however, didn't seem to mind that they were putting their own insured through such a difficult process. State Farm paid a high-priced doctor from Pittsburgh to come to Erie and examine our injured client. The doctor wrote a report admitting that the woman was injured. Still, State Farm refused to budge.
Finally, the case was ready for trial. State Farm videotaped their high-priced doctor for use at trial. We were scheduled to depose the first of our client's treating physicians for use at trial. The trial itself was just a couple of weeks away.
State Farm blinked. Out of the blue, they increased their offer. The offer was one that would have settled the case had it been made at the outset. But the costs of all that litigation (for example, doctor fees for reports, as well as testimony and court reporter fees for depositions) had made it impossible for us to settle the case at that number. We rejected their offer.
Ultimately, the case settled. Not long before the trial term, State Farm offered 4.5 times what they'd initially offered. The case settled for more than what it would have cost State Farm if they had just been fair from the beginning. It settled only after costing State Farm unknown thousands in defense lawyer costs and the costs of their high-priced doctor. It settled only after putting the elderly woman who State Farm insured through litigation that would have been unnecessary had State Farm made their offer earlier. It settled only after costing the innocent injured woman unnecessary delay, grief, and expenses.


The services offered by Gray Equity Management, LLC are designed to assist you in preserving, protecting and building wealth. In today's complex financial world, it is essential to have a coordinated plan based on solid information and realistic expectations. Our services are organized to deliver just such a plan.
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An important first step is an honest analysis of your personal goals. How do you envision your future? How will you finance the education of your children or grandchildren? When would you like to retire? What kind of lifestyle would you like to be leading right now? In ten years? In thirty years? What will be your legacy to your family or your community?
All of these very personal and private issues must be addressed and considered in order to develop a financial plan that will deliver the security necessary to attain your goals.
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CBC should provide live TV coverage of Ontario municipal vote results
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The CBC has decided not to broadcast Ontario's municipal election results live on television. The elections at the local level in cities and towns throughout Canada's most populous province take place Monday, Oct. 22. The public broadcaster says it cannot afford the advertising revenue it would lose by pre-empting popular prime-time shows like Murdoch Mysteries in its biggest market.
Daniel Bernhard, executive director and spokesperson for Friends of Canadian Broadcasting, is a big supporter of CBC, but does not like this decision one little bit.
"Canadians expect our public broadcaster to behave like a public broadcaster. Private companies put advertisers first. CBC should put citizens first," he said.
Catherine Tait has only been president of the CBC for a few months, but has had generally good reviews so far. She is a good communicator and can boast she is the only CBC president with a background in hands-on television production.
The decision on election night in Ontario is a major blunder. It is pennywise and pound foolish in the extreme. CBC spokespeople say the corporation will cover the elections on radio and the Internet. That is not the same as what has become the gold standard of election night coverage -- live television.
When one of the most vocal supporters of an organization -- in this case, the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting -- feels the need to publicly chastise it, that organization should worry.
Worse, the politicians in Ottawa who vote on the CBC's annual budget have taken note.
At a recent Senate committee hearing on the future of broadcasting and telecommunications, the CBC's clumsy and ill-timed decision was a topic of considerable comment -- none of it kind.
Many politicians in Ottawa are already dubious about the CBC. Some are outrageously ideological and do not think the government should be spending money on a service the private sector can quite adequately provide, in their view. Others are supportive in principle, but often feel frustrated by the public broadcaster. They have historically complained, for instance, that when news happens, private broadcasters send one crew, but the CBC sends four or five. That may be more than a bit unfair, given the CBC operates radio and television networks in two languages.
But politicians have other, less refutable complaints. For instance, a good many are not happy the CBC refused to carry any of the leaders' debates during the last federal election campaign. There is back-story to that, of course. It dates back to when former prime minister Stephen Harper refused to take part in debates organized, as they had been for decades, by a consortium of broadcasters. Harper accepted invitations from others, including the Globe and Mail and the Munk Centre.
There was some justification for the CBC to balk at carrying programing of any kind over which it had no control. However, the other party leaders did take part in the debates and the CBC could have decided the public's need for information outweighed its own need for control. In Ottawa, politicians have not forgotten what many of them view as an arrogant and heedless decision by the public broadcaster.
The lesson here is that the corporation has to really watch its backside when contemplating moves that might offend the political class.
CBC's defenders in Parliament try to counter the free enterprise fundamentalists' arguments by pointing to the unique public service mandate of the corporation. The CBC undercuts those defenders when it decides to so flagrantly abandon its public-service responsibilities in favour of a few dollars of ad revenue.
After a good few months, the choice the corporation made on the election in Toronto, and every other Ontario municipality, now puts the CBC's new president way behind the 8-ball. It is especially damaging for Tait because her most concrete and prominent commitment upon taking on her new role was to re-invest in local programing, especially local news and public affairs programing.
Whoever advised Tait on this gave her utterly dumb advice. She might consider finding some new advisers, and soon.
Karl Nerenberg has been a journalist and filmmaker for more than 25 years. He is rabble's politics reporter.
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ATMF is proud to announce the signing of the Australian band "AQUILUS" for the release of their album "GRISEUS", it will be released by A Sad Sadness Song during May 2012.
Aquilus will not fail to channel a grandeur of feelings. An evocative portrait between black metal and a movie like soundtrack. Just imagine Ennio Morricone and Angelo Badalamenti meeting Diabolical Masquerade, Emperor and the refinement of early Opeth.
That track sounds unbelievably good. If the whole album is of that quality it'll be an astonishing release.
I'm in! Will seek out and buy this CD.
Atmosfere davvero maestose, non li conoscevo.


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This hands-on, active-learning workshop will provide participants with a model for teaching undergraduates key topics in scientific thought and practices, including: proportional reasoning, control of variables thinking, experimental design, hypothesis testing, use of assumptions, observations and inferences, reasoning with data, and drawing conclusions from graphical display. Topics addressed here are rarely taught in-depth early in the formal undergraduate curriculum and are frequently learned only after several apprenticeship research experiences. Participants should plan to play with both lab equipment and data.
This workshop is based on the highly successful research preparation course developed for AstroCom NYC by Dennis M. Robbins and K. E. Saavik Ford. The course has educated 78 students (from 1st to 4th year science majors) at the City University of New York. Students completing the curriculum make notable gains on Lawson's Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning, among other metrics. This will be a condensed, intensive version of a 5-day workshop previously offered at the American Museum of Natural History and similar to the workshop of the same name offered at the 221st AAS Meeting (January 2018).
Participants will also engage in supervised practice, teaching a single investigation during a 2 hour workshop offered to other AAS members during the regular AAS meeting, and followed by a 30 minute reflective review.
Open to faculty & postdocs (senior graduate students only with special permission and an advisor's recommendation). Preference goes to participants invested in supporting undergraduate research, and/or at minority-serving institutions. Workshop organizers will provide opportunities for enrollees to develop local implementation plans and practice newly learned skills. Enrollees can expect continued, network-supported professional development for at least 1 year after the workshop.
Have up to two nights' lodging and two days' lunches provided.
Participants will include graduate students, postdocs, and new faculty in their first two years after receipt of their PhD, and advanced undergraduates doing research and committed to continuing in astronomy. Early-career astronomers who are interested in doing outreach, but who haven't done much yet, are encouraged to apply; we will have sessions appropriate for both those who have done some outreach already and those just starting their outreach adventures. We especially want to encourage the participation of members of groups that are underrepresented in science. If you're interested and are not yet a member of the AAS, you may submit a membership application at the same time you apply for the workshop and register for the meeting.
Chandra/CIAO workshops are aimed at helping users, especially graduate students, post-doctoral fellows and early-career researcher to work with Chandra data and the Chandra Interactive Analysis of Observations (CIAO) software.
Several workshops have been previously organized at the Chandra X-Ray Center (see http://cxc.harvard.edu/ciao/workshop/ for more details) and this is the first time a CIAO workshop is organized in connection with the AAS.
The workshop will feature talks on introductory and advanced X-ray data analysis, statistics, and topics in Chandra calibration. The workshop will also include hands-on sessions where students can practice X-ray data analysis following a workbook of CIAO exercises or perform their own analysis with members of the CIAO team ready to assist. Participants are required to bring their own laptop.
NASA's Astrophysics Archives preserve many terabytes of multiwavelength images, catalogs, and spectra. While many astronomers are familiar with the web tools that are convenient for searching and visualizing these data, this workshop will introduce participants to the command-line data access tools that are becoming increasingly popular. We will use python to work through science scenarios that combine multiwavelength data from the HEASEARC, IRSA, NED, and MAST. Workshop organizers will also be available to help participants access NASA data sets for use on their own projects.
Session Teaching and Learning Practices: Proposal Writing Workshops help early career scientists, as well as those looking to improve their previous proposal performance. However, workshops have been limited to due time constraints and the location of those willing to organize and run these critical workshops. Dr. Richey (the organizer/speaker), while a contractor at NASA Headquarters, was able to do some workshops during ROSES Roll-Outs, which occurred primarily at NASA Centers. That presentation will be modified to be attractive to a more diverse audience, and will include information on review techniques for program beyond just ROSES.
The current presentation for the proposal writing workshops is 3-4 hours in length, with time for questions and interactive engagement from the audience, as literature shows that active learning environments are optimal (Review of Literature within the field by Prince, M. 2004). The workshop is a mixture of PowerPoint, Q&A, and will include time for hands-on activities. An anonymized survey will be included at the end to allow for general feedback in improving the workshop.
The SOFIA Science Center offers an interactive workshop on SOFIA science data analysis. The workshop participants will work on scientifically highly relevant, recently obtained, publicly available data sets. Far-infrared polarimetry observations of 30 Doradus with by HAWC+ have been obtained in in July 2018. Mid-infrared imaging and spectroscopic observations of the galactic star forming regions DR21 and W3 with FORCAST are planned for September 2018. These data sets are obtained in strategic director's discretionary time and are made public immediately after the observation.
The workshop participants will learn how to work with and analyze HAWC+ polarimetric data as well as FORCAST imaging and spectroscopic data. Data analysis recipes will be provided before the workshop. Instructions for downloading the public data sets from the SOFIA data archives will also be distributed. During the workshop the participants can follow along the demonstration of the data analysis recipes on their own laptops and then explore the data on their own. During the demonstration and while the participants are exploring the data in the interactive part of the workshop, SOFIA scientists will be at hand to help with questions.
The goal of the workshop is to enable the community to work on SOFIA data from FORCAST and HAWC+ using the above mentioned public data sets and also to give the workshop participants a head start on analyzing these data sets. Workshop participants may try the demonstrated data analysis recipes on other, e.g. their own, data sets. The support at the workshop will focus on the analysis of the public data sets. Only limited support will be available for participant with issues specific to other data sets.
For any questions about the workshop, please contact sofia_help@sofia.usra.edu.
This workshop will cover the use of Python tools for astronomical data analysis and visualization, with the focus primarily on tools in the Astropy library and its affiliated packages. The goal is to introduce participants to the variety of tools which are available inside the Astropy library and to provide ample hands-on time during which participants will explore the science analysis capabilities which the greater Python environment and community provide. The format will be very interactive and include short presentations followed by instructor-guided tutorials where participants will use the tools be able to ask questions in the company of expert users and developers. Topics will include user configuration and conda environments; units, quantities, and constants; coordinates; FITS, ASCII, and Astropy tables; models; WCS and images; and point-source photometry. Finally, we will describe the various ways to get help from the Astropy community and ways to get involved with the Astropy Project.
Want to motivate students to become active participants in their learning? So do we! Developed over the past 15 years by working with thousands of instructors, postdocs, and graduate students, this workshop provides current and future instructors with authentic experiences in effectively implementing proven active learning strategies that significantly increase students' understanding. We will introduce participants to a wide variety of classroom-tested instructional techniques and materials that motivate and empower students to engage in learning about the big ideas in Astronomy and Space Science.
This inclusive, supportive and active workshop environment provides first-hand experience with a range of instructional strategies including interactive lecturing, Think-Pair-Share, and collaborative group activities (including, Lecture-Tutorials, Ranking Tasks, and Student Representation Tasks). These instructional strategies are designed to increase students' conceptual understandings as well as help them develop and improve their abilities to think critically, interpret graphs, reason about quantitative data, and improve their self-efficacy. Join your colleagues in learning more about how to transform your classroom into a vibrant learning environment with more motivated and confident learners!
We at CAE are continually evolving our professional development experiences based on the needs and recommendations of our workshop participants. If it's been a while since you participated in one of our Teaching Excellence Workshops, we encourage you to come take part in this new experience!
CAE workshops have been hosted all around the country at universities, colleges, and national meetings of professional societies (such as the American Astronomical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers). By participating, you'll become part of a nationwide community of practice, along with over 4000 past workshop participants and other educators of Earth, Astronomy, and Space Science. Our CAE online community of practice is dedicated to helping each other in a supportive online environment through advice and recommendations, as well as conversations about effective classroom strategies, interesting pedagogical resources, current science education research, and more.
If you're interested in the power of adding gravitational waves to your research, this hands-on workshop is for you. LISA will be a phenomenal astronomical observatory with a variety of sources ranging from degenerate stellar binaries to supermassive black holes to the Big Bang. Experts from the community will show how LISA data can be used to address unanswered questions in astronomy, followed by hands on activities and exercises using publicly available gravitational-wave tools. These tools are designed for use individual research problems. The day will conclude with an introduction to the LISA Consortium and strategies to become part of the international LISA community. The workshop is open to astronomers at all stages of their careers from students to faculty. Laptops are required and a working python knowledge is suggested.
The new ADS interface has been the official face of the Astrophysics Data System for nearly a year. While it supports the same types of searches that could be done in the Classic system, it's also capable of a whole lot more. Join us to learn more about the advanced search features in the web interface of the new ADS. We'll also show you how to use our API to perform advanced searches programmatically, using command line tools and Python scripts. Completion of this workshop will enable you to get started with a project at the hackathon later this meeting or to start a bibliometric study of your own.
Alaina Levine of Quantum Success Solutions, a career consultant, science writer, professional speaker, and comedian, will meet individually with attendees to provide confidential, customized career advice for people from student through mid-career. Attendees are encouraged to bring CV/resume, cover letter, or any other item you wish to have evaluated. Registrants will be contacted starting 10 October by facilitator to schedule their individual appointment.
Communities around the world are switching to light emitting diode (LED) fixtures for outdoor lighting, and the default white LED solution almost everyone is employing will increase sky glow by a factor of anywhere from 2 to 4 over the widely-used high pressure sodium (HPS) standard. In this workshop, members of the AAS Committee on Light Pollution, Radio Interference, and Space Debris will provide you with a variety of practical information you can use in your community to advocate for more dark-sky friendly LED solutions. We'll discuss the various types of LED lighting available and the relative impact on sky glow of these LEDs relative to current systems. We'll explore success stories from cities and towns that have found better answers than the very high-temperature, blue-white LEDs we see popping up in so many locations. We'll look at ways communities have engaged with citizens, city staff, and elected officials to make progress. And, you'll have a chance to ask committee members questions and develop ideas for dark-sky LED solutions in your community. You'll leave the workshop with a better perspective on this new lighting technology, as well as with a set of concrete takeaways you can apply to advocate for best dark-sky practices in your area. And just to make it fully irresistible, we'll feed you lunch! Come join us for an informative, interactive session in Seattle, and you'll leave much better equipped to help protect the source of all our data.
MaNGA (Mapping Nearby Galaxies at APO) is one of the three main surveys of the SDSS-IV program. MaNGA will provide integral field spectroscopy of an unprecedented sample of 10,000 galaxies. As part of SDSS, MaNGA data is being made public in annual data releases; DR15 is the third and most recent release of MaNGA data (and the first which includes maps of derived properties). DR15 also includes the release of Marvin to the public. Marvin is a new tool designed for streamlined access to the MaNGA data, optimized for overcoming the challenges of searching, accessing, and visualizing the complexity of the MaNGA dataset. At its core, Marvin provides user-unaware local/remote data access eliminating logistical overheads and delivering exactly the content you want, when you want it.
Marvin has two main components: a Web Interface, for a quick visual introduction into the world of MaNGA data, and a Python package of tools, for more in-depth scientific analysis and inclusion in your science workflow. This workshop serves as an introduction to Marvin for the astronomical community, by members of the Marvin Team. After an introductory presentation about MaNGA and Marvin, we will guide you through the setup for Marvin, and demonstrate its main features. Using the web interface, participants will learn how to visually navigate, search for, and inspect MaNGA galaxies. Using Python, participants will learn the ins and outs of all the programmatic tools, how to quickly access data files, query the dataset, and deep-dive into a more detailed analysis with a focus towards specific science use cases. By the workshop end, participants will have gained familiarity with the Marvin tool suite to begin exploring the MaNGA dataset for their science immediately. A break for coffee will be provided.
This workshop is aimed at instructors who are working toward or looking to create learning environments that are inclusive, supportive, and rigorous, where diverse perspectives are represented, and students and faculty can thrive. Topics addressed are drawn from the Inclusive Astronomy recommendations for teaching and include: (1) identifying the strengths, weaknesses, needs, and resources our students bring to the classroom, including cultural capital (2) techniques for understanding and influencing classroom climate and dynamics, and (3) creating an affirming and accessible physical space. Workshop attendees who wish to apply these topics in other contexts (e.g., faculty/work group meetings, mentoring, etc.) are also welcome. We will learn from each other's teaching and learning experiences as well as literature, and discuss structural and pedagogical practices that can help us advance toward these goals. The teaching practices presented will be research-informed and research-validated, with evidence of equitable outcomes for all intersections of student identities in terms of psychosocial shifts and academic success. Resources provided will include examples of: syllabus evaluation tools, classroom codes of conduct and "ground rules," literature on social justice pedagogy, and formative and summative assessment tools. By the end of the workshop, participants will identify concrete changes they can make in their courses or departments and create an implementation and assessment plan.
The NASA's Universe of Learning workshop at the 233rd AAS meeting is aimed at astronomers and educators who engage with audiences to enable STEM learning in informal learning environments - such as museums, science centers, planetariums, and libraries. During this workshop, we will provide a brief overview of the NASA's Universe of Learning program, do interactive tutorials with attendees on selected STEM activities, and share additional resources from the program. We will present ways to connect these resources based on current astrophysics themes and learning pathways, and introduce ways in which you can help us deliver current and accurate NASA astrophysics content to audiences across our country.
NASA's Universe of Learning creates and delivers science-driven, audience-driven, learning-driven resources and experiences designed to engage and immerse learners of all ages and backgrounds in exploring the universe for themselves. The project is the result of a unique partnership between the Space Telescope Science Institute, Caltech/IPAC, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and Sonoma State University, and is one of 27 competitively-selected cooperative agreements within the NASA Science Mission Directorate's Science Activation Collective.
The NASA's Universe of Learning team draws upon cutting-edge science and works closely with Subject Matter Experts (scientists and engineers) from across the NASA Astrophysics Physics of the Cosmos, Cosmic Origins, and Exoplanet Exploration themes. Together we develop and disseminate data tools and participatory experiences, multimedia and immersive experiences, exhibits and community programs, and professional learning experiences that meet the needs of our audiences, with attention to underserved and underrepresented populations.
Wish your astronomy and physics majors were better at problem-solving? Tired of experimenting with hit and miss strategies? Us too! We have developed a proven instructional model that effectively motivates student to work collaboratively on problem-solving during class and addresses their common learning difficulties. We've also created a framework to help you generate new problems that can empower your students to develop both their quantitative problem-solving abilities and conceptual understandings.
In this fun and inclusive environment we'll introduce you to AMP, CAE's Astrophysics Majors Project: a long-term endeavor designed to systematically improve how we teach our courses for physics and astronomy majors.
CAE workshops have been hosted all around the country at universities, colleges, and national meetings of professional societies (such as the American Astronomical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers). By participating, you'll become part of a nationwide community of practice, along with over 4000 past workshop participants and other educators of Earth, Astronomy, and Space Science. Our CAE on-line community of practice is dedicated to helping each other in a supportive online environment through advice and recommendations, as well as conversations about effective classroom strategies, interesting pedagogical resources, current science education research, and more.
This FREE workshop and panel discussion will center on the current and expanding crisis in the job and career market for astronomers. Specifically targeted towards graduate students and Postdocs, this workshop will identify and investigate the shortage of traditional astronomy jobs, and how early-career scientists can best prepare for this challenge. Our focus will be on career planning for traditional astronomy positions. We will demonstrate how to orchestrate a personal career plan and develop a Plan B and Plan C for contingencies. We will discuss what early-career astronomers should do now to enhance their CVs and research reputations, and what they should look for in and how they can leverage a Postdoc appointment to set themselves up for success in the field. We will also discuss non-traditional jobs and career paths in astronomy, and introduce the skills that are needed to pursue these. Q and A between panelists and workshop participants will be highly encouraged.
Do you want to land your dream job? Get ready to network! Most jobs and other game-changing career opportunities are not advertised, and even if they are, there is usually a short-list of candidates already in mind. So how do you find out about and access the 90% of jobs and other opportunities that are "hidden"? In this session, we will focus on proven networking strategies and tactics to identify new opportunities, locate decision-makers within organizations, solidify your reputation and brand in the minds of those who hire, and gain access to hidden jobs and game-changing opportunities. Discover how networking and self-promotion, especially on social media, can enable you to land or even create your dream job from scratch! This career hour is organized by the AAS Employment Committee.
This workshop is a brief, 2 hour sample of the Teaching Science Thought and Practices (Weekend Intensive). If you are interested in the concept of Teaching Science Thought and Practices but cannot yet commit to a full weekend intensive, we strongly encourage you to sign up for this workshop instead. Also, if you are a graduate student interested in this topic, we encourage you to sign up for this workshop, rather than the Weekend Intensive.
This workshop is based on the highly successful research preparation course developed for AstroCom NYC by Dennis M. Robbins and K. E. Saavik Ford. The course has educated 78 students (from 1st to 4th year science majors) at the City University of New York. Students completing the curriculum make notable gains on Lawson's Classroom Test of Scientific Reasoning, among other metrics. This workshop will consist of a single lesson, representing a small sample of the curriculum, delivered by participants from the Weekend Intensive workshop by the same name, under the supervision of either Robbins or Ford.
Open to faculty, postdocs & graduate students. Preference goes to participants invested in supporting undergraduate research, and/or at minority-serving institutions. Workshop organizers will provide information for participants to develop the lesson for local implementation.
In the US, fewer than 40% of intended STEM majors actually graduate with a STEM degree. Reasons that students give for migrating away from STEM are: uninspiring introductory courses, difficulty in math, and an unwelcoming academic culture in STEM especially for underrepresented groups. Furthermore, women and minorities make up 70% of undergraduate students but only 45% of the STEM degrees (PCAST, 2012). Non-white participation in STEM is disproportionately low. This misalignment is critical.
We propose to design and deliver an innovate, active learning based, astronomy workshop, that offers tangible activities and strategies for ASTR101 instructors to increase cultural relevancy in their ASTR 101 classrooms, "Native Skywatchers: Bringing Together Cultural and Scientific Knowledge of the Stars.
This workshop builds on combined decades of experience in what we have come to call "dual-learning" — the weaving together of cultural and scientific knowledge, stories, and hands-on activities in an environment where neither is dominant over the other and resonance between the two is easily found. PI A. Lee's Native Skywatchers initiative (http://www.nativeskywatchers.com) and Collaborator D. Scalice's NASA and the Navajo Nation partnership (https://astrobiology.nasa.gov/education/nasa-and-the-navajo-nation/) form the basis of the pedagogical approach of dual-learning.
We will focus on three constellations — Wakinyan-Thunderbird, To Win/Tun Win-Blue Spirit Woman (Lee, 2014), and Maang-Loon (Lee, 2014) — grounding participants in their location in the night sky and the knowledge contained in their stories. Then, we will introduce astronomy and astrobiology concepts that correspond, relate, and resonate: Wakinyan-Thunderbird with precession; To Win/Tun Win-Blue Spirit Woman with stellar nucleosynthesis; and Maang-Loon with Solar System formation. In each case, we will introduce scientific hands-on activities/labs, and participants will work in groups to expand them to reflect and teach the cultural knowledge they learned.
This workshop will teach you how to easily make a free, personal website all in 60 minutes or less! Personal websites are crucial for branding yourself online and ensuring that your peers can access your contact information and obtain information about your current research projects. While web development can seem daunting and complex, we will show you that you can create and host an amazing looking personal website for whatever purpose you can imagine at no cost to you. We will explore and discuss possible uses for personal websites, including as a staging area for your open source code and analysis tools, as a blog used to communicate your science to both your peers and the public, or as a location to host your teaching materials and to enable online learning. Workshop materials will be provided in a public GitHub repository after the workshop's conclusion.
The National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO)'s National Astronomy Consortium (NAC) is an innovative, competitive, cohort-based student program designed to increase the number of students from underrepresented minority (URM) and underserved groups entering, and remaining in, STEM careers. The NAC program is funded by the National Science Foundation, and is led by the NRAO, in partnership with a number of HBCUs and research universities and facilities. The NAC model expands upon the traditional summer research experience by providing a year-long NAC internship, long-term mentoring, targeted financial and professional support, and engagement in a strong national-level peer and mentor network.
NAC students have enjoyed summer research experiences at the NRAO's Charlottesville, VA and Socorro, NM sites, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Space Telescope Science Institute, and Princeton University. Participation in the NAC program is designed to continue to provide meaningful support to each NAC alumni through undergraduate school, through graduate school and/or into the student's intended career.
Now entering its 7th year of programming, the NAC model has demonstrated significant success in achieving its goal of increasing the number of URM students entering graduate school in fields that support "full spectrum" astronomy (e.g., physics, engineering, astronomy).
The proposed session will describe the NAC/ model, provide examples of success metrics, and include a panel discussion with NAC mentors and student alumni.
Several career path representatives will be drawn from the panel at the associated Beyond the Academy Career Hour: Transitioning to a Career in Data Science, and the remainder will be AAS 233 attendees and exhibitors specifically recruited by the Committee so as to adequately cover the various career areas. Each representative will serve as a discussion lead at a round table in the exhibit hall's Career Center. After a brief welcome and introduction by the EC Chair, participants will be invited to choose among -- and circulate among -- the "Career Path Rep" tables as they see fit, sitting down to ask questions or just listening in to the conversation. The first hour will feature the round table event described above, followed by a 1-hour recruiting event, where job seekers can sign up for interviews with recruiters.
From a social, environmental, and political standpoint climate change is the most important scientific topic of our time. Fortunately astronomers are well positioned to make a difference. Introductory astronomy (i.e., "Astro 101") classes are an effective way to teach climate change because they reach a large number of students and cover related topics. Public outreach, e.g., presentations in schools and planetariums, are also an important way to improve attitudes and understanding. Climate change is a difficult topic to teach because it spans a wide range of subject areas, from physics to psychology. It is also a controversial topic, meaning that simply knowing the science content is not enough to effectively teach it. The purpose of this workshop is to introduce: (1) resources that will improve their science content knowledge about climate change, (2) effective interactive and inclusive methods for teaching the topic in Astro 101 classes, and (3) established strategies for engaging the public. The workshop is sponsored by the AAS Sustainability Committee.
The Large Synoptic Telescope (LSST) will capture about 20TB of data each night. This will be processed and cataloged and released to astronomers (and other scientists). The intention is to deliver not just the data but a Science Platform beside the data where scientists may interact with the data. This is greatly facilitated by JupyterHub, though we have other elements (high performance database, web apis and an exploration portal).
The processing itself is quite involved and we have a rather large code base (all public see https://github.com/lsst/). This stack tutorial is intended to familiarize Scientists and Researchers with our processing software and familiarize them with near the data processing concepts.
Find out what you need to know and do to get the job from the first moment of contact to the moment you leave the interview.
Do you use the AAS WorldWide Telescope (WWT) — in your research, publications, planetarium shows, teaching, outreach, or elsewhere? Perhaps you're a WWT Developer — of software, visualizations, curriculum, tours, or something else? Or maybe you're interested in how the AAS WWT can help you make your data archive more accessible — to scientists and/or the public? Not sure what all of this is about but are curious? Perfect! Grab your lunch, AND a colleague, then come join others in our community for an informal discussion about how we're all using the AAS WWT, or would like to be, what our development needs are, and about ways in which we can engage with each other — and build community — beyond the length of this session. Presenters from AAS WWT sessions held earlier in the meeting will also be along to contribute to our conversation. We encourage folks from large telescope or data facilities to join us! Thanks to the AAS WWT, light beverages will be provided, so we strongly encourage preregistration. We very much look forward to seeing you there!
Hack Together Day is a full-day workshop to work intensively on collaborative projects of interest to the Astronomical community. A wide variety of projects will be undertaken, spanning everything from software development to data exploration and analysis to creative outreach projects. Projects that take advantage of the unique gathering of enthusiasm and expertise at the Winter AAS Meeting are particularly encouraged. No hacking or programming experience is required; newcomers are extremely welcome! Project ideas and participants will be solicited before and during the meeting. Participants can lead or join any project, and should plan on focusing on accomplishing one, limited thing. In addition, we ask participants to commit to Hack Together Day for the entirety of the day.
Is Seattle your first AAS Meeting? Are you looking for a Graduate or Research Experience for Undergraduate (REU) Program? Are you overwhelmed by the AAS Meeting? Or are you looking to connect with other students and faculty? Then the Student Orientation & Grad School Fair is for you! Visit with representatives from over 55 graduate schools and programs.
Join your colleagues as we kick-off the 233rd AAS meeting in Seattle. This is a great time to network, socialize, eat, drink, and gear up for an exciting week. Turn in your raffle ticket for a chance to win prizes from local businesses and restaurants.
Participating in the Career Networking & Job Fair is a great way to increase your visibility at the AAS Meeting. As a recruiter, you have the unique opportunity to meet and engage with outstanding candidates for the best recruiting opportunities. If your company is already an exhibitor at the meeting, there is no cost. Non-exhibiting companies can join us for the one-day Job Fair for $500. We will provide a 6' skirted table. Bulletin boards are available for an additional $65. Your organization will be acknowledged at the event, on the meeting website, and in the meeting program. Sign up to recruit at the Job Fair.
Over 300 local middle- and high-schools students will visit the 233rd AAS Meeting to attend a talk by Dr. Emily Levesque, University of Washington. They will continue into the exhibit hall to participate in hands-on demonstrations with our exhibitors and outreach educators. Individual students or school groups can sign up to participate. If you would like to lead an activity in the exhibit hall, but are not exhibiting, we welcome your participation. Complete this form and we will contact you with more information.
Join us one last time to say farewell to your colleagues until the next AAS meeting. Enter to win prizes from our exhibitors. Grand Prize: SBIG ST-i Color Camera.
The Rodger Doxsey Travel Prize — established through the support of his father, John Doxsey, and other friends, family, and colleagues — provides graduate students or postdocs within one year of receiving or receipt of their PhD a monetary prize to enable the oral presentation of their dissertation research at a winter meeting of the AAS.
Over 90% of the carbon emissions from a typical scientific meeting come from participant travel to the meeting. We are encouraging participants to contribute up to $100 towards the purchase of carbon offsets, which will be used for a variety of third-party certified projects to reduce carbon emissions. Offsets are not a panacea, but will go a small way towards compensating for the meeting's carbon footprint.


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Crash avoidance technology applies to all modes of transportation, including airline travel, with the goal of preventing aviation crashes. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has been gradually introducing various levels of crash avoidance technology at airports, initially with the goal of reducing air traffic delays. The recent airplane crash involving a sightseeing helicopter and a single engine plane over the Hudson River in New York has brought the technology front and center as a means of avoiding in air collisions.
According to the FAA , a technology called Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) is intended to replace radar currently employed by airports throughout the country. The ADS-B system will allow "pilots and controllers will see radar-like displays with highly accurate traffic data from satellites – displays that update in real time and don't degrade with distance or terrain." The system uses GPS information and data contained in an aircraft's transponder, such as type of aircraft, speed and altitude. Experienced airplane crash lawyers have been calling for the introduction of improved crash avoidance technology to prevent catastrophic plane accidents.
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Congratulations to our GirlsGetSET team who achieved second place in the Year 12 Robot Olympics event. The GirlsGetSET scheme is run by GE and is designed to encourage girls into taking STEM subjects due to only 20% of A-Level physics students being girls and with the UK having the lowest number of women in professional engineering positions (10%).
A write-up of the event by team manager, Maddie Hodges, will appear here shortly.
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To read more about the team and each individual's responsibilities, read their previous article here.
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Mark Sutton9 September, 2019 Kicking off last week's Eurobike trade show came the Cycling Industry Leaders' Breakfast, a meet of the trade's CEOs and influentials and the meet struck a welcome tone with much of the discussion centred on horizon broadening. The bicycle industry has come under much criticism for its focus on the sport… [Read More]
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Mark Sutton9 September, 2019
Kicking off last week's Eurobike trade show came the Cycling Industry Leaders' Breakfast, a meet of the trade's CEOs and influentials and the meet struck a welcome tone with much of the discussion centred on horizon broadening.
The bicycle industry has come under much criticism for its focus on the sport segments in recent times and it appears that has been noted by execs who spent much of the CIL Breakfast mulling over what's required to attract a wider customer base. The European Cyclists Federation, represented by Adam Bodor, Advocacy Director at ECF and vice chair of EU tourism council, opened with a presentation that caught the eye of many.
"Women, kids and the elderly are finding accessibility difficult. 67% of European population are either interested, or interested but concerned by the safety of cycling," started Bodor.
Indeed it was a 60% majority who were said to be most able to be converted to cycling and that, said Bodor, could unlock as many as 343 million potential buyers in Europe as a result.
"E-bikes can make cycling easy, whether because of physical condition or otherwise," said Bodor, hinting at where sales may come from. "If people have the choice to cycle freely sales could reach 30 million by 2030. This means making it a priority to develop our underwhelming cycling infrastructure situation.
At the present rate with existing conditions, Bodor said that the industry has not done so badly; but it could do better than the 22% cycling growth average across Europe between 2015 to 2017.
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Céad Míle Fáilte (a hundred thousand welcomes) is more than a clichéd and quaint phrase.
Céad Míle Fáilte or 'one hundred thousand welcomes' is no small welcome reserved for any visitor to Ireland. If the guest in question also traces their roots back to the Emerald Isle, well, the legendary warmth of our hospitality might just reach melting point. Emerald Heritage would like to take this opportunity to invite you to come experience it for yourself.
Now that you are officially an Irish landowner this is the perfect time to pay us a visit. You can view at first hand your beloved Ireland and sample what this stunning part of the world has to offer. Jaw-dropping scenery, landmarks steeped in myth and legend, and copious amounts of craic over a glass of whiskey or pint of the black stuff. What are you waiting for?
Emerald Heritage much prefers the legend that local giant (Fionn Mac Cumhaill) pornounced 'Finn MacCoo'l created the world famous tourist attraction (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) so he could cross the sea for his showdown with Scottish Giant, his arch rival.
Big Mac's building work created not to be missed sights such as The Wishing Chair, Giant's Boot, and a massive hexagonal formation of columns that resembles church organ pipes. The Giant's Causeway also now boasts a state-of-the-art Visitor Centre.
Suspended across a 20-metre chasm between the mainland and the tiny island of Carrick (with a 30-metre drop to the water below) at Carrick-a-Rede Rope Bridge the choice is yours.
Admire from afar the ingenuity of the fishermen who for 350-years used it to reach their salmon nets, or take your courage in your hands and actually have a go at crossing yourself. Just remember the cardinal rule…don't look down!
Perched precariously on a cliff top above the raging Atlantic Ocean clings Dunluce Castle, one of Ireland's most iconic images. Dating back to the 14th century, Dunluce overlooks Royal Portrush Golf Club and has a rich history of occupation and siege.
Richard de Burgh, Sorley Boy MacDonnell, Sir John Perrott, and its last resident Randall MacConnell all appreciated its strengths as a strategically vital fortress (even if their enemies didn't). Oh, and it's haunted!
Old Bushmills Distillery attracts thousands of visitors from all over world and, despite the end of tour hospitality tipples, it's said some of them even managed to leave sober.
The oldest licensed whiskey distillery in Ireland (1608) you will get a unique insight into the process that creates this special spirit enjoyed the world over.
Casting a shadow over the landscape near the town of Ballymena is Slemish Mountain. A volcanic plug, it has more than its fair share of myth and legend. Pirates who slaughtered his family brought St Patrick, Patron Saint of Ireland, to Slemish as a young man. Sold into slavery, he tended sheep here for six years. Open all year round, large crowds walk to the top as a pilgrimage each Paddy"s Day (March 17).
Close to Ballypatrick Forest lies Loughareema Lake. Better known as 'The Vanishing Lake', it is a sparkling lake one day, the next a dried up bed of cracked mud. Some say it's related to an underground river, but we prefer the tale of the cruel landlord and the priest. Standing up for tenants being driven from their land, the priest was struck by the landlord and his hat knocked to the ground. The priest prophesized that on the spot the hat fell would be where the landlord would drown. Within a year the landlord perished in the lake. A mound exists (where the hat landed) that remains dry even when the lake reappears.
Rathlin Island is a tranquil and picturesque six-miles long, one mile wide inhabited island (population under 100) across the Sea of Moyle from Ballycastle. Just 15-miles from Scotland's Mull Of Kintyre, the ferry to Rathlin is always popular, especially with enthusiasts visiting the island's renowned RSPB Seabird sanctuary.
In 1306 King of Scotland Robert The Bruce took refuge on Rathlin. It's said he observed a spider repeatedly trying to spin a web and suitably inspired, he eventually returned to Scotland to fight for and ultimately win his kingdom.
Two of the many highlights in the magnificent Glens Of Antrim are Glenarm Castle and Glenariff Forest Park. The former is the ancestral home of the McDonnells, earls of Antrim, and this hidden gem is open to visitors (Easter – September), many of whom travel to see the horticultural spectacle that is The Walled Garden.
Glenariff Forest Park has been a popular tourist attraction for nearly a century, photographers (professional and amateur) in particular benefitting from the beautiful backdrop that is the park's Waterfall Walkway.
Sitting proudly on the cliff top overlooking the golden Downhill strand is Mussendun Temple. Built in 1785 as a summer library and modelled on the Temple of Vesta in Italy, it provides stunning views along the coast and across to Donegal. Mussendun bears the inscription: 'Tis pleasant, safely to behold from shore. The rolling ship, and hear the tempest roar'.


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Wyndmoor, Pennsylvania
Completed in 1921, for Edward Townsend Stotesbury (1849-1938) and his second wife, Eva Roberts (1865-1946). Whitemarsh Hall represented the apex of the Gilded Age and was arguably the finest example of grand Palladian architecture in the country. Said to be the most expensive house built in Pennsylvania, it contained 147-rooms and covered over 100,000 square feet of living space. Whitemarsh was the third Largest House ever built in the United States. After a visit there, Henry Ford (1863-1947) reflected, "it's a great experience to see how the rich live;" and, on taking in the view over the gardens the French Prime Minister, Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929), declared it to be America's answer to the Palace of Versailles. Its demolition in 1980 is considered to be one of the greatest losses sustained to American architectural history....
Whitemarsh Hall: The Estate of Edward T. Stotesbury By Charles G. and Edward C. Zwicker with the Springfield Township Historical Society The Philadelphia Area Architecture of Horace Trumbauer By Rachel Hildebrandt and the Old York Road Historical Society Philadelphia Mansions: Stories and Characters behind the Walls By Thom Nickels
Ned Stotesbury was a banker and financier of uncommon ability. He was first the partner of Anthony Joseph Drexel (1826-1893) and after his death, John Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913). The latter once commented that his number two (Stotesbury) knew "more about the details of banking than any other man in the United States". Ned married his second wife, who was better known as Eva, soon after the death of her first husband. Whitemarsh Hall was the first of three mansions that the couple would build together, the other two being El Mirasol in Florida and Wingwood House in Maine.
In 1912, Stotesbury first employed the architect Horace Trumbauer (1868-1938) to double the size of his home off Rittenhouse Square. In 1916, encouraged by his wife - and as part of her wedding present - Stotesbury purchased 300-acres in what was then rural Springfield, Pennsylvania. The new home, in which he and his wife intended to spend six months of the year (spring and autumn), was only rivalled in splendor by Lynnewood Hall. Sited on top of a hill at the center of the estate and surrounded by magnificent gardens laid out by Jacques-Henri-Auguste Gréber (1882-1962), Trumbauer collaborated with Eva in designing their Georgian-esque Palladian pile.
Architecture & Features
Hindered by the War raging across Europe, Whitemarsh Hall (named for the neighbouring township) took five years to build at an estimated cost of some $10 million. From the outside, the 147-room U-shaped mansion of Indiana limestone concealed an inner court and gave the impression of standing over two stories when in fact there were six. Three of these were underground while the top floor of 39-rooms was hidden behind a high balustrade. The different floors were interconnected via five grand staircases and three elevators. It had its own telephone system manned by its own operators and everything was run off its own generator. A fleet of no less than 20 motorized lawn mowers were used to keep the lawns impeccably manicured.
Approached via the gatehouse and by a two mile drive, the central block was 283-feet wide by 100-feet deep with an imposing portico in the Greek style supported by fifty foot limestone columns. Many of the principal reception rooms were over 25 feet in height: There were 45 bathrooms, 24 fireplaces, a 64-foot long ballroom (with a marble fireplace imported from Italy for $60,000), an indoor fountain, a movie theater, a gymnasium, a barber shop, a tailors, a refrigerating plant, a bakery, a cookie room (yes, solely for cookies!), a wine cellar that flouted prohibition, a swimming pool styled as a Roman bath, squash courts, tennis courts and a games room with a billard table and a slot machine. To run the estate for one year cost $1 million and there were 70 groundsmen to maintain the gardens plus a further 70 domestic staff. Eva's son by her first marriage, James Henry Roberts Cromwell (1896-1990), who kept a house on the estate, remarked that his mother, "ran her household with more efficiency than any factory I was ever in".
Even before Stotesbury met Eva, his collection of European 18th century portraits was counted among the top three in the country along with those more famously associated with Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) and Henry Edwards Huntington (1850-1927). His collection fitted in perfectly to the interior decor at Whitemarsh Hall, embellished by Sir Charles Carrick Allom (1865-1947). Antiques, predominantly sourced from England and France by Joseph Duveen (1869-1939), 1st Baron Duveen, filled the elegant, gilt and plaster-worked rooms with white and sea-green marble. Bathrooms had bronze dolphin faucets, five by ten foot gilt mirrors watched over the staircases and marble statues and urns from Italy were found both within and around the grand mansion.
The pipe organ reached up three stories and could be heard throughout the mansion: Eva adored organ music and it was played continuously during the afternoons and evenings when they had guests. The Stotesburys frequently held parties for 600 or more people at once, floodlighting the house for these occasions. When they christened it with a ball in 1921, 800 people were in attendance including the future King Gustaf VI Adolf (1883-1973) of Sweden and Marshal Joseph Joffre (1852-1931), the French hero of World War One. That night four orchestras played in the house and gardens. On "Whitemarsh Hall" embossed stationary, every guest found a card in their room informing them of which chauffeur they had at their own disposal and what would be served for their breakfast.
The End of the Party
When the Great Depression hit in 1929, the Stotesburys closed Whitemarsh Hall for two years as they took off to Europe. On their return, they continued to spend money on the place, but it was only when Stotesbury died in 1938 that Eva realised their pockets had not been limitless. In 1912, Stotesbury was worth $100 million; at his death he was worth just $4 million. Eva had to get rid of many of the servants who had been with her for over 20 years. She sold many of her husband's beloved portraits, much of Whitemarsh's exquisite furniture and even jewels given to her by her him, including a diamond pendant worth $500,000 in 1912. Despite it all, she got comparatively little in return.
In her husband's name, Eva made several donations from the house to the Philadelphia Museum of Art including the Clodions plasterwork in the rotundas; the stone Pajon of the Four Seasons; the plaster nymphs (possibly by Pajon and Lecomte); and, a magnificent marble statue that had belonged to King Frederick the Great (1712-1786) of Prussia.
During World War Two, as the great house sat empty, New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art made use of its cavernous halls and filled it with 15,000 priceless treasures of art for storage. In oder to aid the war effort, Eva gave the two mile-long, eight-foot high steel fence to be turned into scrap metal for 18,000 guns.
Decline to Demolition
Finally, in 1943 Eva sold the mansion and its 45.6 acres for a mere $160,000 to the Pennsylvania Salt Company. They converted the elegant rooms into laboratories and offices. The remaining 265-acres had been purchased by Matthew McCloskey (1893-1973) who built 1,000 homes for servicemen returning from the war, creating Whitemarsh Village. Penn Salt moved out in 1961, which was the last time the house was occupied.
In 1964, it was purchased by Willow Associates headed by Sydney Dvorak, when The Philadelphia Inquirer likened "the vast, very empty shell" of Whitemarsh Hall at the center of Whitemarsh Village to "a Rolls-Royce limousine in the midst of a parking lot full of Crosleys". Unable to decide what to do with the house, it stood empty and fell prey to vandalism and water damage after the copper roof was ripped off by burglars.
In 1970, it was sold at auction for $700,000 to a syndicate headed by Kenneth Kasiserman and George Neff who wished to build high-rise apartments buildings coupled with terraced units on the remaining acreage. But, planning permission was refused to the delight of the local community. In 1978, local developer Jay Gross purchased the decrepit mansion and demolished it two years later. In its place he built a series of townhouses that now stand on the once great home. The only haunting remnants that recall its gilded past today are the four 50-foot pillars that supported the front portico, the garden walls, one of the belvederes, and a few statues.
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(From Joe Bob's Ultimate B Movie Guide) With the success of Wonder Woman, rival comic book company DC decided to create a female version of their Superman. She would be a cousin, introduced as a previously unknown fellow escapee from planet Krypton's destruction. But by the 1960s, the writers had no clue what to do. Boys just weren't interested in Supergirl and most girls didn't care about any superhero, so Supergirl plots often revolved around getting a date or trying to impress a boyfriend. Then came this movie a couple of decades later. At least it couldn't get any worse. Helen Slater stars, opposed by female villain Faye Dunaway (who was much better in "Mommy Dearest" and in the movie version of "Evita"). Leonard Maltin says it's "long, dull, heavy-handed. Slater is cute but bland in title role."
Additional cast:
Peter O'Toole, Peter Cook, Brenda Vaccaro, Mia Farrow of Rosemary's Baby and Matt Frewer of "Max Headroom" fame.
114 minutes, rated PG. Seen recently on superstation WGN.
Now here's Professor Joe Bob Briggs with his two cent's worth on the movie that made about that much at the box office:
"Helen Slater puts about 17 curves into that "S" on her chest and displays more blonde hair than Lassie, but never springs those super-puppies out of the chute in this comic-book epic from the "didn't quite work out" file. Helen lives under the ocean in Jacques Cousteau Land with a bunch of bad actors, but Peter O'Toole teaches her some interesting things to do with an electric orange popsicle and gives her a little black egg that lights up like a necklace buried in Liz Taylor's neck. Only she loses the black egg and it goes flying through space and lands in Faye Dunaway's potato salad.
Superbimbo's mission is to go find Faye Dunaway, get the egg, and sober up Peter O'Toole so he can go pick up his check for a million and give his eyebrows a rest. When a couple of truck drivers try to go for the supergroceries, she has to use a little kung fu, then she goes to prep school, takes a shower, puts on a bra over her clothes, does some X-ray vision stuff, saves a gardener from a man-eating steam shovel, kills a monster with a piece of lightning, fights some poltergeist weenies, survives the Attack of the Bumper Cars, and gets zapped into a mirror and bazookaed into space.
But the last straw comes when Faye Dunaway, who can make her eyes look like Ginsu knives, takes Superbimbo's boyfriend and chains him to a zebra-skin bed. Now she's just a LITTLE p.o.ed. We're talking fireballs, we're talking demon storms, and we're talking Peter O'Toole without any makeup on. We're talking feeding Faye Dunaway to a Godzilla-demon with bad table manners.
No breasts.
Two dead bodies.
Three beasts.
Bimbo Fu.
Excellent Peter O'Toole imitation by Peter O'Toole."
© 2000 Joe Bob Briggs. All Rights Reserved.
"Supergirl" is available on video and on DVD
Helen Slater can currently be seen in the cast of the Poltergeist tv-series on the Sci-Fi Channel
Sheena, Queen Of The Jungle (1984)
(From Joe Bob's Ultimate B Movie Guide) With the success of Tarzan, a rival pulp magazine created "Sheena." Also raised in the jungle, though the white woman was no relation to Tarzan. This movie, coming out the same year as "Supergirl," was somewhat better. Tanya Roberts plays the blond jungle queen, fighting corrupt African colonial officials and mercenaries. Maltin calls this one a bomb, "Mother Nature forgot to endow her with a script. Supposed to be campy, but it's just plain awful." The movie plods along with little action, and the one fairly exciting scene has a slow music soundtrack that seems to have been dubbed in from some other movie.
Ted Wass, Donovan Scott, Elizabeth of Toro, directed by John Guillermin
117 minutes, rated PG, seen recently on American Movie Classics
Now here's Joe Bob Briggs, who likes it a lot more than Supergirl:
Tanya Roberts, whose sub-atomic breasts resulted in the only topless picture to get a PG rating, stars as the zebra-riding Valley Girl in Zambooli Land. It seems that Sheena's parents were turned into Mrs. Paul's fish sticks by getting stuck inside a volcano, but Sheena managed to run the heck out of that stewpot and end up living with some National Geographic-type Negroes with bones in their noses and those saggy potato-bag knockers only found in places where medical care consits of sticking people in the ground up to their necks and then running around kicking dirt in their teeth until they're well. Sheena takes a bath. (Better than the bath she took in BEASTMASTER and about the same as the bath Bo Derek took as Jane in "Tarzan the Ape Man.")
While Sheena's taking the bath, a reporter flies over in his airplane and decides he'd like to sign up for African water polo. Then this old woman who's Sheena's stepmother heads off to the city to tell the king he's about to get killed by the evil prince who used to play for the NFL, but before she gets there this moon-face American drinks poison and drowns in his oatmeal. Then Sheena rides the zebra. Then the king makes a toast to the Super Bowl and while he's talking a Zambooli shoots him with a poison arrow and he falls in the potato salad, and they arrest Sheena's slack mama for the crime. Sheena sends some brainwaves to an elephant, and the elephant crashes through some trees and breaks down a fence and gets Sheena's mama out of jail. Then they use some more elephant ESP to get away, and the general of the army says "None of this women's lip stuff around here," and he sends the marines after em through the jungle.
There's a lot of exploding bamboo, like in Nam movies, and then all the animals come running out to save Sheena. The most touching scene in the movie comes when Sheena's mom cashes her chips, checks in at the Breakdance Hotel, lays down on the ground, and starts dying while the elephant digs her grave with his trunk. Once the ugly old broad is out of the way, we get some Monkey Fu, some Rhino Fu, some Snake Fu, and some monkey bidness between Sheena and the reporter in a treehouse. Then Sheena takes a bath again.
Then she tries to talk. "Remove those strange skins you wear." (The reporter put on a Haggar suit to go into the forest.)
And "Fur! You have fur! This cannot be." (Uh . . . chest hair?)
And "Mouths were give us to eat with. Why did you touch yours to mine?"
Then the army starts blowing up everything, and the reporter gets scared shirtless he won't live long enough to get an Emmy. The leader of the army keeps saying stuff like "Eez good psychology," but he never can catch Sheena, even when she's feeding fermented buffalo milk to Mr. Macho and shooting flaming arrows at gasoline trucks and dodging machine gun bullets. Then Sheena gets a little p.o.ed and concentrates real hard and puts her fist on her head and starts talking to the animals and the zebras and antelopes start running to make the machine-gun helicopter go in the other direction, but the copter guy just kills all the animals and then comes back and captures Sheena and her wimp and when they're taking them to jail the nerd says "I'd love to show you a view of the World Trade Towers from my loft," and Sheena looks at him like he's got vee-dee.
Finally, the evil prince football player's girlfriend decides she'll take Sheena up in the copter and drop her buns over the holy waterfall, but once they get up in the air Sheena talks to the animals again and this time we got results: killer flamingo attack. The flamingos PECK THE COPTER TO DEATH. (I know you don't believe me.) Now the army is really p.o.ed and so in the big final scene we got machine guns, flame-throwers, tanks, copters, trucks, and soldiers on one side. On the other side we got zoo animals. Clue: it's feeding time.
Twenty breasts.
Half gallon blood.
Fourteen beasts.
Twenty-five dead bodies.
Exploding bamboo.
Kung Fu.
Zoo Fu.
National Geographic tribal dancing.
One heart attack.
Two arrows through the heart.
One fistfight.
Three motor vehicle chases, with three crash-and-burns.
One stampede.
One zebra massacre.
Two spears through the body.
One cure for cancer.
Best line: "How much I love you, Sheena, so much it busts my heart."
© 2000 Joe Bob Briggs. All Rights Reserved. Not an AOL Time-Warner Company in this lifetime.
"Sheena" is available on DVD
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Wonder Woman first appeared in All Star Comics dated 12-41/1-42. Created by a psychologist under the pseudonym Charles Moulton, Wonder Woman was a big hit. While "Rosey the Riveter" rolled up her sleeves and said, "We (women) can do it," Wonder Woman would extol female fans to "Get strong! Earn your own living!" But after Moulton died in 1947, she became more dependent on male sidekick Steve Trevor, and by the 1960s was more interested in "female pursuits" than in fighting crime.
Things started turning around in 1973, when she became a symbol for the Women's Liberation movement and DC Comics restored her super powers. A year later, tennis star Cathy Lee Crosby was cast as Wonder Woman in what was supposed to be the pilot-movie for a TV series. But the movie was poorly plotted and written, and Crosby's a blond (Wonder Woman has always had black hair). About the only good thing about the cast is seeing Ricardo Montalban of Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan as the villain.
Kaz Garas, Andrew Prine, Auitra Ford
75 minutes, rated TV-G
A TV series starring Lynda Carter eventually came out in 1976 and ran three years on two networks.
Electra Woman & Dyna Girl (1970?)
This Saturday morning live-action TV series had no budget and so-so acting. Unless you have something nice to say about someone, don't say anything at all…
Let's just say Electra Woman was no Xena and Dyna Girl is now a well-known soap-opera star.
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