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beardedmrbean · 1 year

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A jury was selected Thursday to hear the case against accused synagogue shooter Robert Bowers, who is charged with killing 11 worshippers gathered for Shabbat services more than four years ago.

The jury — 12 jurors and six alternates — consists of 11 women and seven men. One woman is Asian. All other jurors are white.

The jury includes a nurse who has worked in an ICU, a woman who works on the business side of UPMC, a paralegal and a military veteran. At least two identified themselves as Catholic and one as Protestant. One man left the proceedings early because his pregnant wife was at the hospital waiting to be induced for labor. He did not ask to be excused from service, and he was seated on the jury.

“My faith is separate from the law,” one juror said in her initial interview with attorneys, where one’s ability to vote for the death penalty was the focus of questioning.

She became juror No. 8.

“The death penalty can’t apply in every case … but I do think there are some crimes that could be,” another said during his initial interview.

He is juror 13.

One woman who was ultimately seated as a juror told attorneys in her interview that she believes God puts people in leadership positions — judges, jurors — “to provide a fair and reasonable trial.”

She is juror 18.

The court initially sent out 1,500 summonses to residents of Allegheny and a dozen other Western Pennsylvania counties. Attorneys questioned more than 200 of them over the course of 17 days, ending with a pool of 69.

Most of those 69 returned Thursday morning as attorneys completed the process. Attorneys at that stage had 20 peremptory strikes — the process of removing a juror from consideration without giving a reason.

That began shortly after 10 a.m., with prosecutors marking their first stricken juror on a sheet of paper and then passing it over to the defense table. That continued for about 90 minutes, and further challenges and arguments wore into the afternoon.

Testimony in the case against Mr. Bowers is set to begin Tuesday.

Mr. Bowers, 50, faces 63 charges in the Oct. 27, 2018 killing of 11 people at a Squirrel Hill synagogue housing three different congregations: Dor Hadash, New Light and Tree of Life. Eleven worshippers were killed: Richard Gottfried, Joyce Fienberg, Rose Mallinger, Jerry Rabinowitz, Cecil and David Rosenthal, Bernice and Sylvan Simon, Daniel Stein, Melvin Wax and Irving Younger.

Lawyers have estimated that the so-called guilt phase of the federal death penalty trial will take about three weeks. If Mr. Bowers is found guilty, the sentencing phase would last about six weeks. He could face the death penalty if convicted.

Maggie Feinstein, director of the 10.27 Healing Partnership, said victims, survivors and Squirrel Hill community members are preparing for the transition from jury selection into the actual trial.

“The heavy weight of the horrors of this event will begin to transfer … from the shoulders of just the families and the witnesses to many more people within our community,” she said. “We understand that the community may feel motivated to reach out with support, and we welcome that support.”

She said some will want to learn every detail of the trial either through the media or through attending the proceedings. Others will not.

“I want to remind you that it’s not your duty to absorb every graphic detail in order to provide support to each other,” Ms. Feinstein said.

The initial jury selection process was tedious but steady, with around 13 or 14 potential jurors questioned each of the 17 days. The judge and attorneys questioned around 215 potential jurors during that time. The questioning focused mostly on the ability of potential jurors to sign their names to a death sentence if they believed the circumstances called for it.

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wutbju · 1 year

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William Robnett "Rob" Schoolfield was born in Pikeville, Tennessee, December 15, 1953, on his father’s birthday. He passed away at 68 years old on March 12, 2022, after a seven-month fight against pancreatic cancer. He is survived by his spouse, Brenda Thompson Schoolfield; son, Ellis Richard Schoolfield; daughter, Katherine Eunice Schoolfield; siblings: James Robert Schoolfield, Jr., Thomas Lurton Schoolfield, John David Schoolfield, and Francis Suzanne Schoolfield Sapp; along with nieces, nephews, grandnieces, and grandnephews. He was preceded in death by his parents, James Robert Schoolfield, Sr., and Hannah Tom Robnett Schoolfield.

Rob holds degrees from Tennessee Technological University, The University of Tennesseeat Chattanooga, and Bob Jones University and studied at The University of South Carolina. He studied percussion with Charles Hiebert, Joseph Rasmussen, Monty Coulter, and James Hall.

Rob was a musician, playing percussion and guitar. He played and sang with his friends in the Pure Mountain Water Band (known as The Tennesseans at Six Flags over Georgia). He performed with regional orchestras in Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina as well as with the orchestra at First Presbyterian Church of Greenville, South Carolina.

Rob loved learning and teaching. He taught music in Tennessee and Alabama before moving to South Carolina to teach for 35 years at Bob Jones University. At BJU he founded the percussion program as Director of Percussion Studies. He supervised the equipment and logistics along with teaching private lessons and conducting the University Percussion Ensemble. He also served as associate conductor of the BJU Symphonic Wind Band. He performed with the University Symphonic Orchestra and the University Opera Association.

Rob said that he always wanted to be a father, and he was a loving and kind father. He and his wife rejoiced in their children’s accomplishments and growth. He loved his siblings and their children and grandchildren. Family was second only to his heavenly Father.

Rob died in faith, without fear, and with confidence that God. He looked for a "city having foundations whose builder and maker is God." (Hebrews 11:10). Rob believed that he would see his Redeemer, and he is now healed and saved.

The memorial service will be held 4:30 PM (EDT) Thursday, March 17, 2022 in the main sanctuary of First Presbyterian Church of Greenville. Before the service, the family will receive visitors beginning 3:00 PM. In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to the Cancer Society of Greenville County, or to the Gingery-Mack Music Scholarship at Bob Jones University.

A separate memorial service will follow a private graveside service in Pikeville, Tennessee. The date and time of those events are still being determined and will be announced.

#Bob Jones University #Archive #Obituary #BJU Hall of Fame #BJU Alumni Association #2022 #William Robnett Schoolfield #BJu Faculty #Grad Class of 1988 #Percussion

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Members of the Film & TV Music community, made up of composers, songwriters, music editors, music supervisors, studio executives and more, are contributing their talents to SOUNDTRACK OF OUR LIVES: A CELEBRATION FOR THE FILM & TV MUSIC COMMUNITY, an online benefit event for MusiCares® COVID-19 Relief Fund. This specially produced program debuts June 25th, 2020, at noon pacific on YouTube, and will honor the talented people whose scores and songs transport, inspire, uplift and entertain us by creating the "soundtrack of our lives." The fun, delightful and heartfelt hour-long special will feature leading and iconic singers, composers, songwriters, actors, celebrity guests and others while celebrating glorious Film & TV Music moments with heart and humor. Donations to MusiCares® COVID-19 Relief Fund will be encouraged throughout the show.

"Thousands of music professionals and creators are struggling during this pandemic and remain in desperate need of assistance," says Debbie Carroll, Vice President Health and Human Services MusiCares®. "The continued support from the music community during these turbulent times has been heartwarming and inspiring. The power of music unites us all and gives us hope for better days ahead."

Over 75 film and television composers and songwriters, "From A to Z, Abels to Zimmer," will appear in this program. Collectively, this prestigious group has been nominated for 273 Grammys (with 87 wins), 216 Emmys (with 51 wins) and 136 Oscars (with 34 wins).

Confirmed performers and special guests include Sting, Catherine O'Hara, Ming-Na Wen, Patti LuPone, William Shatner, Elisabeth Moss, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Marla Gibbs, Jane Levy, Mandy Moore, Richard Kind, Alex Newell, Zachary Levi, Paul Reubens, Kiernan Shipka, Harvey Fierstein, Ginnifer Goodwin, Anika Noni Rose, Kasi Lemmons, Ted Danson, Auli'i Cravalho, Darren Criss, Drew Carey, Ray Romano, Holly Hunter, Reba McEntire, Bob Saget, Ken Page, Lucy Lawless, Mary Steenburgen, Dave Coulier, Kevin Smith, Peter Gallagher, Naomi Scott, Annie Potts, Clive Davis, Jodi Benson, Harvey Mason Jr., Susan Egan, Paige O'Hara, John Stamos, Andra Day and Rita Wilson.

Composers and songwriters participating include Michael Abels, Kristen Anderson-Lopez, Angelo Badalamenti, Glen Ballard, Lesley Barber, Nathan Barr, Tyler Bates, Jeff Beal, Marco Beltrami, Alan Bergman, Terence Blanchard, Jongnic Bontemps, Kathryn Bostic, Kris Bowers, Jon Brion, Nicholas Britell, Bruce Broughton, BT, Carter Burwell, Sean Callery, Joshuah Brian Campbell, Lisa Coleman, John Debney, Tan Dun, Fil Eisler, Danny Elfman, Charles Fox, Germaine Franco, Harry Gregson-Williams, Hildur Gudnadóttir, Alex Heffes, Joe Hisaishi, James Newton Howard, Justin Hurwitz, Ashley Irwin, Mark Isham, Steve Jablonsky, Amanda Jones, Laura Karpman, Christopher Lennertz, Joe LoDuca, Robert Lopez, Mark Mancina, Gabriel Mann, Clint Mansell, Dennis McCarthy, Bear McCreary, Alan Menken, Bruce Miller, John Murphy, Starr Parodi, Benj Pasek, Justin Paul, Daniel Pemberton, Michael Penn, Heitor Pereira, Rachel Portman, Mike Post, A. R. Rahman, Tim Rice, Lolita Ritmanis, Dan Romer, Anna Rose, Jeff Russo, Arturo Sandoval, Lalo Schifrin, Marc Shaiman, Teddy Shapiro, Richard M. Sherman, David Shire, Rob Simonsen, Mark Snow, Tamar-kali, Dara Taylor, Pinar Toprak, Brian Tyler, Nick Urata, Benjamin Wallfisch, Diane Warren, Mervyn Warren, Paul Williams, Austin Wintory, Alan Zachary, Geoff Zanelli, Marcelo Zarvos, David Zippel and Hans Zimmer.

Some highlights of the special include:

Members of the Film & TV Music community deliver heartfelt messages of hope, solidarity & encouragement.

"Musicians!" - a humorous musical tribute to the Film & TV Music community featuring Zachary Levi, Patti LuPone, Alex Newell, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Peter Gallagher and Harvey Fierstein.

Tony Award winner and Disney Legend Anika Noni Rose highlights the history of African American composers, songwriters and artists who have contributed to the Film & TV Music industry through the years.

Performers Danny Elfman, Catherine O'Hara, Paul Reubens and Ken Pagereunite to perform a song from the film The Nightmare Before Christmas.

Eight-time Academy Award winning composer Alan Menken performs his timeless song, "A Whole New World," alongside his daughter Anna Rose, introduced by Aladdin (2019) stars Mena Massoud and Naomi Scott.

Stars from beloved animated features step out from behind the microphone to lend their voices to inspirational messages, featuring Irene Bedard, Jodi Benson, Auli'i Cravalho, Holly Hunter, Mandy Moore, Susan Egan, Ginnifer Goodwin, Linda Larkin, Paige O'Hara, Annie Potts, Anika Noni Rose and Ming-Na Wen.

John Stamos hosts "Name That TV Tune!" with celebrity panelists including Elisabeth Moss, Drew Carey, Ray Romano, Eve Plumb, Reba McEntire, Bob Saget, Dave Coulier, Marla Gibbs, Lucy Lawless and Kevin Smith competing to identify famous TV themes.

Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist actor Jane Levy invites us into the dreamworld of her Extraordinary Soundtrack Playlist.

Various performers, including members of the original cast of La La Land, sing a parody version of "Another Day of Sun."

William Shatner explores how different scores can give the same film a different meaning as an exasperated director, played by Richard Kind, leads a composer in multiple directions for a short film starring Kiernan Shipkaand Christian Coppola.

Songwriter Paul Williams performs his classic song "The Rainbow Connection," from The Muppet Movie, joined by various special guests from the Film & TV Music community.

Tony- and Emmy-winner and seven-time Oscar® nominee Marc Shaimanperforms an original song tribute to end title sequences.

MusiCares® COVID-19 Relief Fund was created by MusiCares® to provide support to the music community during the pandemic crisis. The music industry has been essentially shut down with the cancellation of music performances, events, festivals, conferences and the many other live events that are the cornerstone of the shared music experience. Since the fund's establishment in March, over 14,000 clients have been served, with many more still needing help.

Show co-creator Peter Rotter says: "When the pandemic tragically hit our world and began to shut down our film music community, I felt that something needed to be done to help those who were in need of support and care. Through MusiCares® we have found the charitable vehicle that can come alongside our hurting musical family.

"Music has always played a role in history; reflecting both the subtle and monumental moments of our lives through its unique DNA. Music connects each of us, acting as a common thread of unification, opening the hearts of all people.

"Regardless of the color of one's skin, status or station in life, music powerfully breaks through boundaries as its message permeates deep within us; healing our human frailties and condition at our cores. Music is transformative and personal. It powerfully underscores our lives."

"Music has always helped transport, uplift and inspire us through wars, economic hardships, health crises and societal upheavals," says show co-creator, Richard Kraft. "When COVID-19 hit, it threatened the lives and livelihood of much of our Film & TV Music community. So, we decided to create an online special that both celebrates the soundtrack of our lives and benefits, via MusiCares®, the artists who create it."

Starting June 25th at noon pacific, watch the video on Youtube via Rolling Stone, Variety & GRAMMY's channels, as well as on www.soundtracklives.com. Donate at soundtracklives.com now!

#darren criss #broadway world #soundtrack of our lives benefit #press #upcoming events #june 2020

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Saint&Reading: Wed., Oct.22, 2020

Commemorated on October 8_Julian calendar

Saint Pelagia the Penitent (457)

The Nun Pelagia was converted to Christianity by Sainted Nonnos, Bishop of Edessa (Comm. on Saturday of Cheesefare Week). Before her acceptance of saving Baptism, Pelagia was head of a dance troupe in Palestinian Antioch, living life in frivolity and profligacy. But one time Pelagia, elegantly dressed, was making her way past a church, at the doors of which Saint Nonnos was preaching a sermon. Believers turned their faces away from the sinner, but the bishop long glanced after her. Struck by the outer beauty of Pelagia and having foreseen the spiritual greatness in her, the saint in his cell prayed long to the Lord for the sinner, grieving that the poverty attiring his soul could not compare with the splendid garb and beauty of the profligate. On the following day, when Saint Nonnos was teaching in the church about the Dread Last Judgement and its consequences, Pelagia came. The teaching made such an impression upon her, that betaken with the fear of God and bursting out in tears of repentance, she besought the saint for Baptism. Seeing the sincere and full repentance of Pelagia, Bishop Nonnos baptised her. By night the devil appeared to Pelagia, urging her to return to her former life. In answer to this the saint made prayer, signed herself with the Sign of the Cross, and the devil vanished. Having gathered up her valuables, Saint Pelagia took them to Bishop Nonnos. The bishop gave orders to distribute it amidst the poor with the words: "Let be wisely dispersed what is miraculously gathered". After this Saint Pelagia in hair-shirt journeyed to Jerusalem to the Mount of Olives. There, until her end (457), she asceticised in seclusion under the masculine-name Pelagios, and attained to great spiritual gifts.

Saint Keyne Hermit of Cornwall

It is known that young Keyne left her native Wales and settled in the valley of the river Severn in what is now western England, making herself a hermitage there. The exact location of her ascetic life here is unknown. What is known is that the holy woman in time undertook active missionary work, perhaps aided by other Celtic saints. This extended to parts of the present-day counties of Herefordshire, Somerset and Devon in England, where in ancient times numerous churches were dedicated to her, and several places derived their names from hers. Finally the sainted virgin settled in the predominantly Celtic region of Cornwall where she led ascetic life in seclusion for many years. There St. Keyne became famous for many miracles performed by God through her prayers.

St. Keyne's holy well in St. Keyne, Cornwall (provided by churchwarden of St. Keyne parish)The site of her ascetic labors is traditionally identified with the present-day parish and village of St. Keyne in eastern Cornwall, where the parish church and the ancient holy well are dedicated to her. This unusual holy well appeared here through the fervent prayers of the woman saint. Tradition holds that St. Keyne blessed this holy spring and predicted that all who would drink from it with faith would receive healing, and couples would be blessed with a happy family life. According to a centuries-old popular superstition maintained to this day, the newlywed who is the first to drink some water from St. Keyne’s well will surely have dominance in the family. For many years until modern times, newly married couples have hurried to this mysterious well to drink its water before their spouse and ensure the upper hand in marriage!

Local young people and those from neighboring areas observe this tradition even nowadays. According to a popular story, in the nineteenth century, one day an anxious bridegroom left the church of St. Keyne as soon as the wedding ceremony was over and rushed towards the well (half a mile away) to secure dominance in the household, while his “wily” bride took a small bottle of the spring water from underneath her clothes (where she had hidden it beforehand) and quickly took a sip. Formerly this spring was also used as a baptismal well.

Another tradition has it that by her intercessions St. Keyne turned all the snakes of the area (they were a real plague for Cornwall and Somerset) into stones; stones in the shape of snakes resembling ossified fossils of reptiles indeed have been found in the West Country. It was written that St. Keyne visited St. Michael’s Mount—a tidal island and ancient holy place associated with the Archangel Michael to the south of Cornwall, where she conversed with her relative St. Cadoc who was living there; it was he who persuaded Keyne to come back to her native Wales.

Many traditions connect St. Keyne with regions of Wales where she indeed may have returned after many years of unceasing labors in England’s West Country. The founding of a number of chapels and churches in this country is attributed to her. The maiden of God spent the final years of her life In Wales, close to a healing spring where she reposed. She used to be the patron saint of the following Welsh settlements from the earliest times: Llangeinor in Bridgent (where a church is dedicated to her), Llangunnor and Llangain (where a church that bore her name was closed several years ago) in Carmarthenshire, Runston and Rockfield in Monmouthshire, and of Cerrigceinwen on the Isle of Anglesey (its church in honor of our saint was sadly closed down not long ago).

The parish of St. Keyne is one of the smallest in Cornwall. The unique St. Keyne’s “family” holy well sits very close to a major road and is easy of access. It was substantially restored in 1936 by a local society. The surviving stone well-house is late medieval. Its extraordinary marriage-related properties were first recorded in the early seventeenth century by the Cornish antiquary Richard Carew (1555-1620). He also wrote that St. Keyne planted four trees around the well so that their roots formed a natural chapel for the spring. Robert Southey (1774-1843), a prominent “Lake Poet”, devoted one of his ballads to St. Keyne’s well.

Philippians 2:24-30

24But I trust in the Lord that I myself shall also come shortly. 25 Yet I considered it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, but your messenger and the one who ministered to my need; 26 since he was longing for you all, and was distressed because you had heard that he was sick.27 For indeed he was sick almost unto death; but God had mercy on him, and not only on him but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.28 Therefore I sent him the more eagerly, that when you see him again you may rejoice, and I may be less sorrowful. 29 Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness, and hold such men in esteem; 30 because for the work of Christ he came close to death, not regarding his life, to supply what was lacking in your service toward me.

Luke 6:46-7:1

46But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say? 47 Whoever comes to Me, and hears My sayings and does them, I will show you whom he is like:48 He is like a man building a house, who dug deep and laid the foundation on the rock. And when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently against that house, and could not shake it, for it was founded on the rock. 49 But he who heard and did nothing is like a man who built a house on the earth without a foundation, against which the stream beat vehemently; and immediately it fell. And the ruin of that house was great.

1Now when He concluded all His sayings in the hearing of the people, He entered Capernaum.

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mhenvs3000-20 · 3 years

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Not feeling well? Here, have a dose of nature.

Nature is a cure. A cure for what exactly? Well, that’s hard to say. Not because I have trouble finding an answer for what nature might be a cure for. Instead, it’s hard to say because I have trouble not saying “everything”.

Photo of an artistic representation of nature as a cure. The plants are cleverly placed in a standardized pharmaceutical pill container. Retrieved from here.

My personal guiding ethic as a nature interpreter is that nature is a cure. Richard Louv, based on our readings during the course, seems to agree. He invented the term “nature-deficit disorder” because of research he has performed that spans over a decade. He’s studied how there are physical, psychological, social, spiritual, and environmental consequences from having a “nature-deficit disorder” (Beck et al., 2018, p. 50). Louv’s work includes effects on children (2005), adults (2011), and entire communities (2016).

My beliefs are in line with Louv’s because I have witnessed the healing power of nature through my own experiences. Spending time in nature and learning about the details consistently reignites me and makes me feel at peace. The stresses of modern life melt away when I am engulfed in nature. It’s the best medicine I have, but I’m aware that’s my own subjective experience.

Photo of Hamilton Pool, USA. Seeing this in person blew me away and it was the moment that I began to see nature as magical. Being here for a brief moment healed me from poisonous psychological mind states that are an inevitable result of modern society. Retrieved from here.

In my opinion, experiencing things for yourself is much more valuable than scientific data proving something. This is because science is always behind. It takes years to perform a flawless experiment that has conclusive evidence. Additionally, science can only study a few variables at a time by definition, since scientific experiments rely on altering one variable at a time for the purpose of establishing cause and effect relationships. In real life, there are infinite variables. Therefore, science is powerful, but I always make the argument that our own experience is far more valuable because we can reach conclusions faster.

So, my opinion that nature is a cure is not founded on scientific principles. Of course, there are some scientific experiments that can demonstrate why nature helps with certain illnesses such as the ones Louv carried out (Beck et al., 2018, p. 50). But, when I say nature is a cure, I mean it is a cure that exceeds beyond what science can definitively confirm in the foreseeable future.

This is why I feel responsible for sharing nature with the world. I think our current society has a twisted perversion with science. Science is the modern God. As a scientist myself who has been studying biology for the last half decade, the problems with science are clear to me. I feel a personal responsibility to stop this perversion and make people realize that science should not be our primary guiding principle.

It’s a nuanced idea that I want to share with the world. That nuanced idea is not meant to take away from the power of science and its incredible utility, but to help differentiate the power of science versus the longevity of conclusive data. To put it simply, a real scientific finding that has practical application to our lives and is irrefutably correct usually takes a long time. A really long time.

Through nature interpretation, I can bring this idea to people. For example, I can show people the amazing scientific discoveries related to bees such as how they communicate through sophisticated dances that are similar in precision to a modern GPS. I can outline how honey is made, what constitutes it, and how honey can be synthetically made through chemistry. I can share discoveries related to global bee species decline as a result of several factors such as neonicotinoid pesticide usage and climate change. But, I can also be honest about the limitations of science. I can say that we don’t really know what the answer to bee decline is. I can even say we don’t know if we need an answer. Perhaps, the bees can decline and nature will smoothly go on because other species will take its place. Perhaps, some plants that heavily rely on pollination may go extinct and be replaced with other ones. Is every “problem” worth solving? Dinosaurs, mammoths, and countless other species have gone extinct, but Earth remains. Nature always has a way of balancing everything in a beautiful and harmonious way that humans have historically never managed to do properly. They stopped forest fires in British Columbia, only to now purposely have controlled fires because they realized the positive biodiversity effects of forest fires (British Columbia Wildfire Service, 2010).

Nature interpretation is a way for me to tie all these complex ideas together into presentations that can bring genuine peace to people. People can leave an interpretative session with me realizing the power of nature and its harmonious ways.

I’d place emphasis on explaining connection. How everything connects together in a seamless fashion that is infinitely perfect. How the tree produces a seed and wraps it up with a fruit. How an animal will enjoy the nutrition of that fruit, but how that indirectly helps the tree reproduce by dispersing that seed as a result of eating the fruit. How that seed will eventually thrive as its own tree and continue the cycle. The cycle of never ending perfection.

All we can do is relax and enjoy this perfection, if only for a brief moment. We can breathe in the oxygenated air and feel grateful for nature. We can bask in its power and energy just like we love to bask in the sun. Then we can get back to our busy lives of obligations and responsibilities, but recharged with a potent kind of energy that is capable of worldly success.

As Robert Frost wrote originally almost 100 years ago (2000),

The woods are lovely, dark, and deep. But I have promises to keep. And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

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Beck, L., Cable, T., and Knudson, D. (2018). Interpreting Cultural and Natural Heritage for a Better World. Urbana, IL: Sagamore – Venture Publishing LLC.

British Columbia Wildfire Service. (2010). British Columbia Wildland Fire Management Strategy. Retrieved from https://www2.gov.bc.ca/assets/gov/public-safety-and-emergency-services/wildfire-status/governance/bcws_wildland_fire_mngmt_strategy.pdf

Frost, R. (2000). Stopping by woods on a snowy evening: For SATB choir and keyboard. London, Ont: Jaymar Music.

Louv, R. (2005). Last child in the woods: Saving our children from nature-deficit disorder. Chapel Hill, NC: Alqonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

Louv, R. (2011). The nature principle: Human restoration and the end of nature-deficit disorder. Chapel Hill, NC: Alqonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

Louv, R. (2016). Vitamin N: The essential guide to a nature-rich life. Chapel Hill, NC: Alqonquin Books of Chapel Hill.

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Best War Movies to Watch: A Complete Streaming Guide

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Sadly, the human race has pretty much never not been at war. We remain an ever violent, combative crew. Hopefully one day that’ll change and we’ll enter an era of unprecedented peace. Until then though, we have the movies!

War might be hell, but war flicks can be pretty great at times! Armed combat and all the other various theaters and forms of battle makes for high-octane drama and gripping backdrops. And that’s pretty much exactly what we are looking for out of our drama films.

What follows is a (mostly) comprehensive list of all the war movies available with a streaming subscription on the major streaming services. If you’re interested in paying per movie, options like Amazon, Google Play and YouTube should help broaden the field. Otherwise, scroll below because the films here are all free with a log-in subscription to Netflix, Amazon Prime, Hulu, or HBO Max.

‘71

Available on: Hulu (US), Amazon Prime Video (UK)

An underrated British thriller from the last decade, ’71 turns “the Troubles” in Ireland into a pseudo-horror movie. At a mere 99 minutes, this is lean, economical filmmaking with a barebones premise about a British solider (Jack O’Connell) who gets separated from his unit during a Belfast riot in 1971—the height of British-Irish tension. His plight to survive the night is riveting filmmaking and a grim look back to still fresh nightmares.

The African Queen

Available on: Amazon Prime Video (purchase only in UK)

An unlikely war movie at first glance, The African Queen is very much the story of two middle-aged people caught up in the chaos of the First World War. It’s also a crackling adventure yarn about autumn romance between a drunken river boat captain (Humphrey Bogart) and a Christian missionary (Katharine Hepburn) who’s brother was just killed by Germans in colonial Africa. Both set out to get down the river, and away from the Germans’ reach, in this charming John Huston classic with still stunning location photography.

The Alamo

Available on: Hulu

As an ironically little remembered version of the Alamo siege from director John Lee Hancock, The Alamo (2004) is still the best film version of these events. With a refreshing eye for historical authenticity instead of Texan mythmaking, the movie unpacks the lives of David Crockett (Billy Bob Thornton), James Bowie (Jason Patric), and William Travis (Patrick Wilson) with a warts and all approach. It also relays the events of the battle in its actual context at night, and in grim chaos, and gives needed attention to the overlooked contributions of the Tejanos to Texan independence.

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But most significantly, it has a bittersweet soul as expressed in Carter Burwell’s score, which is at its most beautiful when Crockett climbs a parapet to serenade both sides of the battlefield with his fiddle.

A Bridge Too Far

Available on: Netflix (US Only)

The last of its kind, A Bridge Too Far is one of those old-fashioned all-star war epics about World War II that came into vogue between the 1950s and ‘70s. But this nearly all-British production is not about one of the Allies’ greatest triumphs, but rather one of their most disappointing defeats: the failure of Operation Market Garden in the Netherlands.

Director Richard Attenborough and screenwriter William Goldman try to squeeze it all in, which will honestly be exhausting to some viewers. For others, seeing a historically accurate (if too lighthearted) rendering of this battle with the likes of Sean Connery, Michael Caine, Gene Hackman, Anthony Hopkins, Ryan O’Neal, Robert Redford, and more will be enough.

Casablanca

Available on: HBO Max

Another Bogie movie where the war is adjacent to the central conflict, Casablanca is the best wartime melodrama ever produced. Some even consider it the greatest American movie for that matter. Actually made during the Second World War, there is a great rush of patriotic idealism and anxious uncertainty about its vision of a seedy Moroccan city that is ostensibly under free French rule, but is not-so-secretly being occupied by the Nazis. There everyone goes to Rick’s, a café run by a disillusioned American (Bogart) who sticks his neck out for nobody.

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But Rick must soon pick up the fight again after an old flame named Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) walks into his gin joint, bringing with her a French husband, a freedom fighter who has the Nazis breathing down his neck. All three are going to make some tough choices, as will complicit French police officer Louis (a marvelous Claud Rains) as the forces of World War II finally start pulling.

Cold Mountain

Available on: HBO Max

An attempt at an old fashioned sweeping wartime epic, Cold Mountain still brings modern historical insight to the oft-mythologized Civil War. The film is about several people from North Carolina’s Appalachian region. Like many Confederate soldiers, particularly from NC, Inman (Jude Law) has no slaves and no real reason to fight for the Southern cause. So after hellish battle, he deserts and attempts to make a sprawling trek back home.

Elsewhere, however, his sweetheart Ada (Nicole Kidman) must make hard decisions of her own with the leering eye of the Home Guard peeking over her shoulder, especially as word of Inman’s desertion reaches the mountains. An odyssey of the Civil War from the vantage of the impoverished it rolled over, Cold Mountain is a refreshing melodrama.

Da 5 Bloods

Available on: Netflix

Spike Lee’s latest joint is also one that opened up wounds from the Vietnam War that never really healed. Set more in the 2010s than 1960s, Da 5 Bloods follows four Black veterans who’ve ostensibly returned to Vietnam to find the remains of their fallen brother (Chadwick Boseman in one of his final roles). But they’re also here to reclaim gold that was stolen back in ’69.

Something of a heist movie, Lee mixes genres yet never loses sight about the anguish of those who fought in a war, and the legacy it leaves even decades and generations later.

The Dirty Dozen

Available on: HBO Max

Even if you haven’t seen Robert Aldrich’s epic 1967 adventure, the term “dirty dozen” and the basic premise of the movie have found their way into popular culture over the decades and influenced recent movies like Suicide Squad.

A grizzled (as if there’s any other kind) Lee Marvin leads a team of prisoners–including Ernest Borgnine, Charles Bronson, Jim Brown, John Cassavetes, George Kennedy, Telly Savalas, Donald Sutherland and more–on a suicide mission during World War II, with full pardons as their reward if they survive. The results are explosive and, at the time of release, controversially violent. They also make for one of the great war movies of the era.

Enemy at the Gates

Available on: Netflix, Amazon (US Only)

Sniper versus sniper; eagle versus eagle. That is the basic appeal of Enemy at the Gates, the rare Hollywood World War II drama where America is not even present. Rather this is a film about the war of attrition between the German and Russian forces at the Battle of Stalingrad, the nightmarish conflict which began turning the tide against the Third Reich. The movie features an all-star cast, including Jude Law, Ed Harris, Rachel Weisz, and Bob Hoskins, but it’s the chilly environs of hell on earth which make this worthwhile.

Five Came Back

Available on: Netflix

A film told in three parts, Five Came Back tracks the singular, and now fairly astonishing, choices made by five A-list Hollywood directors: John Ford, Frank Capra, George Stevens, John Huston, and William Wyler. They all chose to leave Hollywood either at the peak of their careers, or at the beginning of it, to make films about the Second World War. Each ultimately served as an officer, and several were in the actual thick of combat to capture war footage (and propaganda) for the first time in history. It was a patriotic and revealing choice then and now, and it’s examined with insight by the likes of Mark Harris and Steven Spielberg here.

Flags of Our Fathers

Available on: HBO Max

Not as good as director Clint Eastwood’s companion film told from the Japanese perspective, Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of Our Fathers is nonetheless a worthwhile film. A rather skeptical look at the lives of American marines who were turned into an inaccurate legend by the U.S. military when they were photographed raising the American flag above the sands of Iwo Jima, the picture tracks the home lives of soldiers who did their job only too well and were then asked to return home as glorified heroes… and then live an ordinary American life.

The Four Feathers

Available on: HBO Max

One of the great British adventure films of the pre-war era, The Four Feathers is director Zoltan Korda’s sweeping reimagining of the A.E.W. Mason novel. Set during Britain’s colonial wars in Egypt and Sudan during 1882, the film tracks an English officer who only took a commission in the military to honor his family’s ancient war record. However, when the call of war comes, he fears he would not do his duty in battle and resigns his service… so his three friends and even a fiancée give him four white feathers: white for cowardice.

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To redeem himself, he travels to Sudan and helps the British cause while posing as a local. Filmed on actual African locations and in glorious Technicolor at a time when American movies were afraid to leave California, The Four Feathers is a classic (and politically incorrect) throwback.

Gallipoli

Available on: Amazon

Australian filmmaker Peter Weir has directed just 13 films, but probably 10 of them are classics, and this 1981 drama is one of them. A 25-year-old Mel Gibson stars as one of several young men who enlist in the Australian Army during the First World War. They eventually find themselves on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey, site of a costly and lengthy battle that ended in defeat, but marked a turning point for Australia’s perception of itself and its place in the world and a seemingly disinterested British Empire. It’s a harrowing tale about the loss of innocence, national character, and the price of war for both.

Glory

Available on: Netflix (US Only)

Arguably the greatest film ever made about the American Civil War, Edward Zwick’s Glory continues to shine like one gallant rush. Based on the lives of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry regiment, the film tracks the hard fight for respect—and freedom—endured by the first African American regiment in U.S. history.

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With a still crackling ensemble that includes Morgan Freeman, Matthew Broderick, Andre Braugher, and Denzel Washington in his first Oscar winning role, the movie both mythologizes and humanizes the 54th’s struggle as the American struggle. It also soars with James Horner’s most transcendent and ethereal musical score.

The Great Dictator

Available on: HBO Max

The rare comedy on this list, The Great Dictator was a film of political courage by writer-director-producer-and-star Charlie Chaplin. Filmed in 1940 when much of the world was already at war, but the United States was not, this Hollywood film made a farce out of the hatred and fascism of the Third Reich, with Adolf Hitler being especially skewered.

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In the film, Chaplin plays both a fictional barber and Hitler-like dictator who switch places in a Prince and the Pauper styled mix-up. Chaplin thus makes a still hilarious deconstruction of Hitler’s madness and insecurities at a time when most Hollywood studios chose to pretend there wasn’t a war going on. The film also concludes in one of the greatest anti-war speeches in cinema history.

Hacksaw Ridge

Available on: HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video UK

The rare film that is told in merely two acts, director Mel Gibson’s World War II drama is fairly underrated. The film follows the remarkable true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), an unlikely U.S. Army corporal since he was also a conscientious objector who refused to hold a gun. Nearly court-martialed for his defiance of orders, as a medic Doss insisted he could serve his country well by saving lives on the battlefield. He got his chance at the Battle of Okinawa when he pulled 75 lives out of the carnage, which is captured in grisly detail by Gibson. Likely the bloodiest WWII movie since Saving Private Ryan, Hacksaw Ridge is also one of the best.

Hamburger Hill

Available on: Amazon Prime Video (US Only)

This 1987 film set during the Vietnam War recounts one specific mission: a 1969 assault by the U.S. Army’s 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, known as the “Screaming Eagles,” on a well-fortified North Vietnamese position near the Laotian border. Dylan McDermott, Don Cheadle, Courtney B. Vance, and Steven Weber all make early career appearances in the film as young soldiers thrust into a situation where victory almost seems more like defeat—as good a metaphor for the Vietnam conflict as any.

Hostiles

Available on: Netflix

Director Scott Cooper did the rare thing with Hostiles: He looked back at American history with nuance and sincere contemplation. This film is ostensibly about a U.S. Cavalry officer on his final mission, which is to escort a family of Native Americans across the last remnants of American frontier. But when that officer (Christian Bale) knows he’s escorting the dying Cheyenne war chief (Wes Studi) who led the doomed side of American Indians in previous conflicts—and alongside a woman (Rosamund Pike) who just lost her family to Indian attacks—the ghosts of America’s sins and recriminations walk with them.

The Hurt Locker

Available on: Hulu, Netflix UK

The film which won Kathryn Bigelow the Oscar for Best Director, The Hurt Locker is the first great movie about the War on Terror in the 21st century. Boiling down the madness of war to being like “a drug” for some soldiers, the film essays the high-stake tension—and adrenaline—of being an officer in the Army’s bomb squad who is responsible for disarming IEDs, bomb vests, and other hidden weapons of death.

It’s terrifying… and exhilarating as personified by Jeremy Renner’s addicted Staff Sgt. William James. Also with a career-making performance by Anthony Mackie and a pseudo-journalistic script by Mark Boal, The Hurt Locker gets under your skin.

Platoon

Available on: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video (US Only)

There were plenty of Vietnam War movies before Oliver Stone’s Platoon, but what shook audiences in 1986 is that this was the first time one was made by a Vietnam veteran. Not that Stone didn’t take liberties: He makes his soldier’s eye view of the generation-defining conflict a fever dream of America’s darkest moments in the shit.

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But his lament for the soldier also brought a renewed sense of sorrow and regret to how veterans were treated in the aftermath. With a heartbreaking supporting performance by Willem Dafoe, whose demise in the film has become iconic, there’s a reason for many this remains the only Vietnam War movie of consequence.

Red Tails

Available on: HBO Max

Here is executive producer George Lucas and director Anthony Hemingway’s well-meaning but so-so aerial war epic about the Tuskegee Airmen. The real-life Black pilots, mechanics, bombardiers, and more made up a segregated flank of African American airmen (as well as flyers from Haiti, Trinidad, and other Caribbean nations) in World War II. This film attempts to honor them with a cast that includes Terrence Howard, David Oyelowo, Nate Parker, and Cuba Gooding Jr.

War Machine

Available on: Netflix

David Michod (Animal Kingdom) wrote and directed this Netflix satire set during the ongoing war in Afghanistan, eight years after the 9/11 attacks. Brad Pitt stars as four-star general Glen McMahon (loosely based on real-life general Stanley McChrystal), whose bleak assessment of the situation on the ground puts him at odds with President Obama and others. Like other less-than-reverent films before it, War Machine is interested in the sheer insanity of war: doing the same thing over and over again while hoping for a different outcome.

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FULL NAME: Richard Rider NICKNAMES: Rich, Richie, Ricky ALIAS: Nova / Nova Prime AFFILIATIONS: Nova Corps, Guardians of the Galaxy, New Warriors (formerly) AGE: 43 MBTI TYPE: ISFP OCCUPATIONS: Police Officer for SCPD! He will also continue to be a Space Cop. FAMILY: Charles Rider (father, deceased), Gloria Rider (mother), Ralph Rider (uncle, deceased), Ellen Rider (aunt), Robbie Rider (younger brother), Peter Quill (best friend) SEXUALITY: Pansexual SPECIES: Human HEIGHT: 6’1” HAIR COLOR: Brown EYE COLOR: Brown

powers/special abilities —

HOST OF THE NOVA FORCE.

SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH: He’s able to change the Nova Force to increase his physical strength to vast levels. The full extent of this is unknown but with his best show can destroy everything within three miles. The Nova Force grants Rider sufficient strength and power to engage and even stalemate the likes of the Silver Surfer in combat.

SUPERHUMAN SPEED: If Richard channels the Nova Force properly, he can grant himself the ability to run or move at speeds beyond the physical limits of Human athletes. The limit of his speed isn’t known but he can run several hundred miles an hour or move faster than light.

SUPERHUMAN STAMINA: Due to the Nova Force's augmentation of his musculature, Rider's muscles produce considerably less fatigue toxins during physical activity than the musculature of a normal human. While the full limits of his stamina are unknown, he is able to exert himself physically for at least 24 hours before fatigue toxins impair him.

SUPERHUMAN DURABILITY: Richard’s body is highly resistant to all forms of conventional physical injury. He can withstand high caliber bullets, falls from tremendous heights, exposure to extremes in both temperature and pressure, powerful energy blasts, acidic corrosives, and tremendous impact forces without sustaining injury. While employing the Nova Force, Rider can easily withstand the rigors of deep space indefinitely.

SUPERHUMAN ACCURACY: He can shoot beams of energy with an accuracy of millimeters.

SUPERHUMAN AGILITY.

SUPERHUMAN REFLEXES.

REGENERATIVE HEALING FACTOR: Richard can use the Nova Force to heal any injuries or bodily tissues. This wont work on regenerating lost limbs.

FLIGHT: He can use the Nova Force to propel himself through the air at tremendous speeds. Rich is fully capable of achieving faster than light velocities and can enter and traverse hyperspace, which he often does while traveling through space. However, moving as such speeds while in the atmosphere of a planet would cause devastation to the planet itself, so he travels much slower while within a planetary atmosphere.

ENERGY GENERATION: He can channel the Nova Force and expel the energy in the form of extremely powerful concussive blasts that he often uses in combat situations. A few of the abilities he has shown are:

the ability to manipulate the Nova Force to create hyperspace portals in space such as Space Gates.

the ability to release extremely powerful gravimetric pulses and beams, either from specific parts of his body or from his whole body surface.

the ability to emit powerful electromagnetic discharges that can nullify gravity.

XANDARIAN WORLDMIND: Aside from housing the Nova Force, Rider is also one of the hosts of the Xandarian Worldmind along with Sam being the other who can use it. The Worldmind is a sentient collective created to govern and maintain all forms of Xandarian culture. The Worldmind contains all knowledge collected by the Xandarian people including art, science, history, and philosophy. Richard can access any aspect of this technology by communicating with the Worldmind verbally or mentally. As a result, The Worldmind often contacts Rider unbidden and usually offers advice, instructions, insights, recommendations, and even criticisms. His bond with the Worldmind is highly useful, however, also in the fact that the Worldmind is crucial in helping Rider maintain self control, mood, and his mental stability.

Other capabilities demonstrated by the Worldmind:

Helps Rich contain the Nova Force while keeping his mind and sanity intact.

Downloads profiles of opponents directly into Rider's mind.

Detects nearby energy surges, including those used in teleportation.

Can assume control of Rider's body as he sleeps.

Access other computer systems, including heavily-protected terrestrial computer networks.

Analyze attackers, including detecting adrenaline surges in their bodies.

Detects approaching super-humans with energy-based powers.

Enables Rider to hack into satellite TV broadcasts, and transmit his voice and image to individual TV sets.

Can protect Rider from psionic manipulation using Psi-shields.

SKILLED COMBATANT.

equipment —

NOVA UNIFORM: To further stabilize Rich during his manipulation of the Nova Force, the Worldmind has specifically modified Rider's Nova uniform. The material of the uniform helps to contain and regulate some of Rider's powers by siphoning some of the energies of the Nova Force. The uniform also contains inhibitors that can manipulate various hormones in Richard’s brain for the purpose of moderating his moods as needed. The uniform also has self-repairing capabilities, allowing it to seal rips and tears on its own.

The helmet contains radio circuitry enabling Nova to pick up radio transmissions, monitor transmissions, telescopic sights, night vision sensors, and heat imaging sensors, as well as overlay a visual heads-up display for tracking energy signatures. Nova's helmet has a rigid construction and shape when worn, but becomes as malleable as cloth when it is not, allowing him to hide it in his civilian clothes when desired.

three headcanons —

Both of the Rider children are living in space for their own separate reasons. His little brother, is on a dark path that he feels comfortable sticking with. Richard and their mother have tried to bring him back from the Raptors but that choice is cemented after a life has been built. Richard lives a life that’s the complete opposite, a war hero who feels comfort in living among the stars. Their mother, Gloria sets aside some money for their rare trips back to Earth. The currency in the galaxy is different and their credits are useless down on their home planet. When Rich came back seven years after the ban started his mother gave him some of that money that was set aside so he could get by until finding a proper job.

Richard has lost count of how many wars he has taken part in but the galaxy recognizes him as a veteran for it. His name is well known for his service. He qualifies for a free therapist as a result of this and has started regularly going to see her in Halfworld. His sanity is hanging by a very thin thread at all times. Rich can’t drink away his mental illness and trauma no matter how much he tries to. He struggles with depression, some post-traumatic stress disorder, and the rest of his problems is a long list. The therapy is genuinely helping and he makes a point to go every week. It’s important to him!

Peter Quill is his best friend but they met when they were fairly young — way before Guardians of the Galaxy were formed. Richard was new to being in space and Peter was still traveling around with Yondu and the other Ravagers. They quickly bonded over their love for music, since Rich has a library downloaded into his helmet after all. They became very close as they would go on many adventures together. The two of them are fairly reckless and sometimes Yondu would show up to bail them out of trouble. Who was cautious about Richard at first since he’s a Nova but would soon welcome the boy to stop by whenever he would like. Maybe it was nice to see Peter getting to interact with someone his own age for once. They continued to remain best friends over the course of their lives and still are to this day. The two of them have been through a lot together and even when Richard says he can handle doing something on his own, Peter is right behind him refusing to let him do it alone. (This was all discussed with Amanda!)

personality traits —

+ HUMORISTIC. Richard surprisingly has an excellent sense of humor despite all of the tragedy he has experienced. He tries to make light of a situation if he can to disguise what he might be really feeling deep inside. It doesn’t always work but if Rich can make himself laugh then that seems to be worth it. If someone else ends up laughing with him? Even better and keeps the dark thoughts away.

+ DEDICATED. Once Richard places his mind on something he intends to go through with it until getting the outcome he desires. No matter how tired the man might get there is always energy left to keep fighting. He’s also a loyal friend to have on your side because of it!

- CYNICAL. Maybe Richard struggles to believe anything good can come out of stressful situations. This doesn’t mean he won’t press forward anyway because even when times get tough Rich does absolutely everything in his power to do what’s right. His depression tends to impact his outlook but tries being optimistic despite being a cynic about his current situation. Rich doesn’t think that someone like him deserves a happily ever after and always prepares for the worst. Maybe he has just seen too much.

- UNSTABLE. If it weren’t for his connection to the Nova Force he would have gone insane and the thread holding his sanity together would have snapped a long time ago. Which is a reason for going to therapy to strengthen that strand holding his mind together.

character bio —

ORIGIN: Richard Rider was born in Hempstead, New York to Charles and Gloria Rider. He would become the oldest of their two children after his parents have another son. He always appeared to be insecure about how his younger brother is smarter than him and thought that he was the favorite. Robert always looked up to Rich though and supported his older brother’s role as a hero. Their mother worked as a 911 dispatch operator and their father was the principle of their local high school. Charles was a good father but quite strict. He never approved of his children getting in fights and more than once sent Richard to his room without getting to eat dinner. They tried being supportive of their son but his father would end up supporting the mindset that heroes should be registering — putting a strain on the relationship with his son. Richard would stay close with his mother since Gloria is always more gentle and loving between his two parents.

He wasn’t the class clown or the wallflower or the cool kid. Richard was just an average teenager growing up, having girl troubles as anyone else his age. Everything appeared to be normal until coming into contact with the Nova Corps shortly after his seventeenth birthday. The Nova are a peace-keeping force based off the planet Xandar which was destroyed by a space pirate. When Rhomann Dey, the Nova Prime was dying and fleeing through the cosmos toward Earth is when a decision was made. Richard Rider received his powers and granted the Nova Force — becoming the host for the energy source.

The sudden infusion of power hospitalized him, comatose as Rhomann telepathically explained to him everything that was happening and what his mission would be. He hoped that this Human would use these abilities for good. Rich would recover suddenly and be discharged by the doctor so he could return to his normal routines. The next day when alone in his room Rhomann transmitted one last gift — his Centurion uniform. Richard soon discovered all the different powers he now possesses but didn’t have any instruction on how they worked. He would become Nova Prime, proudly taking up the mantle.

START OF THE BAN: Richard spends more time out in space than home on Earth. He goes years at a time before returning to visit his mother. His childhood friends all moved on with their lives without him in it so that doesn’t leave him with many reasons to come back. Usually when Rich does make a visit it leaves him confused by everything that had happened since he has been gone. There were wars to fight in and distress calls to take care of — feeling like that is more important than anything Earth has to offer. This has consequences though, never getting closure with his father since he passed away during one of the times Rich was gone.

When the ban was put into place, Richard didn’t know about it until Sam told him. He couldn’t believe that much had changed. Worldmind always there reminding him that there’s forever more work to be done through the galaxy if it brings some kind of reassurance to the two Novas. There would always be somewhere they were needed and this is where their journey would go. Maybe Richard just adapted too much to living in space that being on a Earth makes him ache for returning to the stars again. He has learned to appreciate the little time there is with the connections he has left in his old age.

PRESENT: Seven years go by in the blink of an eye. Which also means seven years since stepping foot on Terran soil. His reasons for returning are a mixed bag. One of them connected to realizing how much he misses his mother during one of his therapy sessions. She was one of the few good things left since his younger brother is on a path of villainy with the Fraternity of Raptors. Richard spent some time with her after coming back to Earth since this was important to him. He couldn’t stay though, no matter how much she wanted him to. He comes to Star City seeking out a reunion with his best friend Peter but also new opportunities. Rich has never been good at holding a job, not when being Nova Prime will always come first, but decides to give it a try. Besides it doesn’t sit right with him knowing an organization is staining the Nova name. While trips back to space will still be frequent because he has his therapy sessions and also can’t refuse a distress call — Rich is going to try sticking around a bit more this time around. Maybe after all these years he deserves to build an actual life for once.

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Story Prompt 2:

The Nazis have been performing experiments on prisoners of war to try and send them to another dimension.

It is no lie that Hitler believed in the supernatural, i.e. aliens, curses, and time travel.

He takes soldiers from various camps, often ones who are Jewish. He entrusts the selection to the heads of said camps, one of which being Heinrich Metz.

When Heinrich is confronted by an American soldier, recently taken from his group, he sees the soldier as a perfect candidate. That soldier is a one Robert Zussman.

Metz has Zussman transferred to a secret facility where he is tortured. The personell inject him with unknown chemicals, until suddenly, a portal opens.

However, it was not created by Zussman.

In that portal is an orange-haired man, dressed in period attire. This man is baffled, and begins to question the workers.

Upon discovering Zussman, alongside the fact that the world he has entered is NOT one that contains the man he's looking for, but rather one 33 years in the future, the man takes action. He takes Zussman by force, dragging him back through the portal and out of the scientists' grasps.

The man introduces himself as Robert Lutece, explaining to Zussman that he was searching for a man named Booker DeWitt, and that how he had mentioned to shoot himself into the future was beyond him. He takes Zussman's weakened body to a place called Columbia where his "sister" Rosalind awaits. Knowing that the leader--if you will--of Columbia might panic knowing a man from another, seemingly dangerous, realm has entered his territory, Robert and Rosalind hide Zussman in the basement of an abandoned house on the outskirts of Shantytown where they concoct a plan.

There is no reason that Robert Lutece should have leapt into the future. He was trying to enter the past. But something had messed with the Time Continuum. Another portal must have been opened during Robert Lutece's initial leap. They can't leave Zussman unattended, so they enlist the help of a Finkton Dock worker named Shaang, who is also a secret member of the Vox Populi, to help Zussman blend in. Zussman is then nursed to health while also being educated on Columbia, and being introduced to Daisy Fitzroy who threatens Zussman's life should he turn his back on the Vox.

In the midst of this, Robert Lutece attempts to open another portal, but in doing so, drags a girl through. Covered in blood and snow, the girl looks dazed and frightened. Her name is Lucy Daniels, and she has been through a hell of a night.

She very quickly explains that she was in an abandoned asylum with her friend, Michael Pierson, searching for their other friend, Joshua Washington, when they discovered a dungeon-esque basement inhabited by inhuman monsters. In an attempt to flee, they ran into a room where strange machines lined the walls. The building had been made into an asylum in the aftermath of WW2, so the machines were assumed to be inactive. Unfortunately, one wasn't. After pushing it to barricade a doorway, a portal opened, pulling Lucy through, and leaving Michael behind.

Lucy comes to realize that Zussman is her friend Ashley's Great-Grandfather, and begins to panic.

The Lutece twins devise that with the old machine activating a portal near the same time as an opening was somehow formed in the Nazi basement, the various realms had collided, sending everyone in different directions.

After finding Lucy more era-appropriate attire, Robert and Rosalind tell her that she must go to Zussman's world to get answers and prevent him from being captured. Somehow, Zussman was a vessel in the portal's creation, if not a cause of it. The whole Butterfly Effect, as Rosalind put it.

("A tiny butterfly flapping its wings today, could lead to a devastating hurricane weeks from now.")

Zussman was captured, why? He and Daniels were alone and ambushed. Why? They were outnumbered and their directions from their Sergeant were unsure. Why? Because their Sergeant was newly initiated as "Captain" of the platoon. Why? The Platoon's original "Captain", Lieutenant Joseph Turner, was killed. Why? Because he had been shot dead by a Nazi, in an attempt to protect Lucy's Great-Grandfather, Ronald Daniels. Why? Because they were in war. Why? Because America had been attacked by Japan. Why? Because Japan strayed from Germany, wanting their own neolithic rule. Why? Because Germany was not doing well. Why? Because the Allies were fighting back. Why? Germany had overrun almost the entirety of Europe. Why? Germany wanted revenge for the events of WW1. Why? Because they had lost miserably and been made a fool of. Why? Because Russia had attacked them, and they foolishly retaliated and set off on a mission to conquer the war as a show of dominance. Why? Because a Serbian rebel murdered the Duke and Duchess of Austria-Hungary, Russia's ally, and Russia feared that Germany would attack because it was Serbia's ally. Why? Austria-Hungary would not give freedom to Serbia.

"Boom. Butterfly effect."

The Lutece duo decide to send Lucy to Zussman's original time period. She has extensive knowledge about the war thanks to being the descendant of Ronald Daniels, Zussman's friend.

Lucy agrees, and a plan is formed to get her into the war by being a field nurse. She would then join Platoon 19 as a personal triage nurse, and keep watch over Turner and Zussman.

Zussman asks as to what will happen to him, and he is told he will no longer exist in his realm, as he himself exists in another dimension--the one Lucy is going to--and therefore cannot continue an existence in that dimension.

Zussman demands to be sent back. He could save Turner. He could wear a disguise, change his name--something. Anything!

Lucy protests, saying she cannot let him die.

After much fighting, both Lucy and Zussman return to the war, both in disguise, to save Turner, and destroy the portal the Nazis had made.

However, defects from the portal Lucy was dragged through, and the changes of 3 time periods, have left Lucy with little to no memory of what has unfolded. She does not remember the Lutece's, nor the plan, nor who she is and panics. Zussman fills her in as best as he can, telling her her name and the plans, but to no avail. Lucy bolts, thinking she might be able to find help with law enforcement, but in her sudden sprint, she--so very stupidly--falls, knocking the wind from herself. Zussman takes her to the local hospital where a Doctor named Heins Schtrubel examines her. What Zussman does not know is that Heins is a Nazi sympathizer, aware of Hitler's experiments. Heins recognizes Lucy's clothing as old, and theorizes that she is from another dimension, much like Zussman. He secretly injects the same concoction into Lucy as the Nazi scientists had injected into Zussman, in the hopes of opening a portal of his own, but in doing so, he did not open a portal, but rather gave her the unique ability to heal rapidly, and also heal others with a single touch, transferring their wounds onto herself.

Zussman is unaware of what has occurred, and when Lucy comes to, her newfound "gift" is played off, in his mind, as another defect of the portals. He asks Heins what this means, and he explains that she is a healer in the literal sense, and was very lucky to be so. Zussman realizes that she could help the Platoon, and tells Heins that she would make a great field nurse for his Platoon. He convinces Heins that his name is Richard Lutece, and that he was being deployed on the next ship over, and that she would be a great asset. Heins agrees, and, after the two leave and disembark, offers his own services so that he can follow the two and touch base with Metz.

During this time, in Columbia, Robert and Rosalind finally bring Booker into Columbia. Booker is told to find a girl named Elizabeth, and to bring her back to them to wipe away his debts. When Booker finds Elizabeth, she is in the process of opening a portal. When it fails, Elizabeth saunters off sadly. Booker eventually manages to find and save her, and the two form a bond. Soon enough Elizabeth discovers "tears." These "tears" look like rips in clothing, and she is able to open them, turning them into portals. During one such opening, Booker and Elizabeth find themselves staring at a strange man in clothing they don't recognize, talking angrily with a girl covered in blood and snow. Booker notices the Lutece twins beside them, and calls out to them angrily, allowing him to be sucked into that tear, leaving Elizabeth behind.

Booker meets Lucy and Zussman, and, after a heated argument with the Lutece's, is added into the plan of saving Turner and Zussman. In doing so, Booker could keep an eye on the two time-travelers. Booker agrees on the condition that when everything is over, he is returned to Elizabeth, to which the Lutece's make no promises.

When Lucy bolts, both Zussman and Booker are in a fix, but are eventually shipped off to war.

Once there, Lucy is integrated into the nursehood. She has come to terms with her memory loss and has put it behind her, vowing to live this life to the best of her abilities, WITHOUT the two strange men who had been with her. Dressed in field nurse attire, she is mistaken for a soldier, and, unwilling to protest, enters a boat that lands on the beaches of Normandy. Armed and terrified, she takes cover often. She integrates into Platoon 19 under the name of Lucas Daniels after helping a Private named Ronald Daniels save another soldier named Robert Zussman. Slowly she begins to fall for the Platoon's Technical Sergeant, William Pierson. She takes a bullet for him, but is rescued by Staff Sergeant Augustine Perez where she is discovered to be a woman. After an argument with General Davis, Lucy is sworn to secrecy, for fear of repercussions, and is returned to Platoon 19 as a field nurse. Her and Pierson form a small bond, but not nearly as close as they had when she was Lucas.

Heins, in the meantime, has snuck away and met up with Metz to relay the information he has on Lucy. From there, the information makes its way up to Hitler, who demands that she be brought to him.

In an ambush, Lucy is captured. Pierson chases after her, but he and some others are captured as well. Imprisoned in an unknown location, the two try to think of a plan. Lucy, unwilling to hide it any longer, admits to Pierson that she was Lucas. Pierson is angry at first, but forgives her, admitting he was more relieved to know he still had her with him. The two bond a little, when suddenly Lucy is taken. Fearing Pierson and the others might be killed, she threatens to end her own life unless they are released.

Hitler obliges, and soon after, Lucy is experimented on, and during an electro-therapy-esque test, she regains her memories. After gaining Hitler's trust by giving him fake information on the future, Lucy is allowed a room and supervised walks around the grounds. During one of these walks she stumbles upon a burn pile where Nazi soldiers are throwing in human bodies. On a table nearby, Lucy notices what look like dog tags. Upon inspection she finds that they are indeed dog tags, and they belong to Pierson. Lucy crumbles. That night, she sneaks from her room and finds Hitler. Using a shard from the mirror she had broken in her room, she stabs him. She then flees. She reaches a small village where two men agree to get her onto the morning train for London.

When she is on the train, she meets Arthur Crowley, who takes her with him to his rendezvous with Platoon 19 after she tells him she's their nurse. When they arrive, Lucy finds Pierson who explains that his tags were taken and then he and the others were taken to and left in a random area.

She is also introduced to two new recruits, a one Booker DeWitt and Richard Lutece.

After they've all reunited, they push forward with their mission.

Through the war they fight to protect Turner and the current Zussman. But, sadly, in the end, they could not save Turner. Though devastated, the three turn their focus on Zussman.

However, during an ambush, current Zussman, Daniels, and Lucy are captured. Though Daniels escapes, Zussman and Lucy are loaded into an army jeep and taken away. In the jeep, Lucy and Zussman come face to face with a figure who reveals himself as Heins Schtrubel. He has injected himself with the same chemicals that he had injected Lucy with, and gained her abilities, only his were amplified. To prove this, he shoots Zussman in the shoulder and rapidly transfers the wound to himself. It heals in seconds. Heins tells Lucy she is no longer needed, as now he has the ability to turn every Nazi soldier into an immortal behemoth, and proceeds to shoot and fling her from the car.

Lucy is found soon after by an anguished Pierson, where it is discovered that her healing abilities are slow and almost useless under extreme amounts of distress and anxiety.

The Platoon retreats, wondering what will happen from then on.

Booker and previous Zussman realize that it is up to them to save current Zussman now that Lucy is incapacitated. They convince the platoon to continue onward, and as they leave, Pierson visits the medical tent to say goodbye to Lucy. In that moment, through tears, Lucy confesses who she is, what she knows, and portals. At this, Pierson leaves without a word.

After winning the battle at the Rhine, previous Zussman leads the platoon to a prisoner of war camp he claims he's been told about. The platoon leads an ambush, and a firefight breaks out. During the gunfire, Metz and Heins take the remaining prisoners and flee, leading them on a death march. Current Zussman is in the back closest to Heins, and Booker spots him almost immediately.

Current Zussman had indeed been tortured, but luckily they had arrived before a portal could be opened. Daniels kills Metz and Heins just as Metz is about to execute Zussman. It is revealed that previous Zussman had died in the firefight. His true identity is never revealed.

After the war, a victory speech is given on an aircraft carrier to the soldiers. Afterward, the men of platoon 19 say their goodbyes. Booker visits Lucy and explains that he has found a tear in the lower bunks near the back of the carrier. He tells her to say her goodbyes so that they can then both secretly leave. He exits the wing to allow Stiles, Daniels, and Aiello to visit Lucy in the hospital wing and bid her farewell. She tearfully watches them leave as Daniels moves to see Zussman in his bed farther down. Before Booker can return, Pierson arrives. He sits beside Lucy's bed and explains his feelings and questions. Lucy explains everything about herself and her memory loss. She apologizes and explains that she knows he'll never trust or forgive her again. Tears begin to form behind her eyes when suddenly Pierson places a soft kiss on her lips. He tells her he needs her, and when Booker arrives, Lucy tells him to leave without her. Booker respects her wishes and leaves. Lucy and Pierson kiss once more.

Back in Columbia, Booker has started over and is back to when he first arrived. The Lutece's tell him thank you and to save Elizabeth.

In Lucy's old world, Michael destroys the machine after blowing the asylum, thinking she has died. He returns to the cabin and saves his friends while killing the monsters around them simultaneously.

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short trip home (part 2—west of the divide & back)

Two famous movies produced before Technicolor became standard, when it remained costly and labor-intensive—The Wizard of Oz (1939) and The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)—still made strategic limited use of it: in Oz (at length) as the vivid dyes rendering Dorothy’s polychrome dreamland; in Gray as the jolt bringing us face-to-face with Dorian’s corruption and cruelty.

Audiovisual entertainments are now so immersive and realistic that it’s hard to gauge what impact the selective use of color once may have had on movie audiences familiar only with black-and-white. Yet both films’ technique came to mind as I drove from east to west over Rogers Pass—from dry, late icebound winter into full-blown mountain spring. I weighed switching to color for the second half of this post.

That would have strained an already slight parallel. But the greens of the meadows and forest floors along the Blackfoot Valley did rival the John-Deere-tractor hue of the Wicked Witch of the West’s face. And the unidentifiable roadkill emerging here and there from the ditches’ receding snows could have resembled (since it was already on my mind) Dorian’s vile portrait-corpse.

The Blackfoot Valley has less idiosyncratic ties to cinema with Robert Redford’s A River Runs Through It (1992), the movie based on the title novella of an autobiographical collection by Norman Maclean, a retired Shakespeare professor from the University of Chicago, who had grown up in Missoula. The film doesn’t come close to conveying the story’s wonder and laconic pathos, I’ve always thought. The collection, never promoted, and published by an academic press since no commercial publisher would touch it, was in my teens a dog-eared parable passed around among fly-fishing family and friends, who took it to heart before it grew widely famous (although my paternal grandfather, an ardent fly-fisherman and churchgoer, like the author’s father, found it scandalous).

The Big Blackfoot River comprises the healing waters that course through the story, though other streams make appearances too. The Blackfoot is “multitudinous,” “gossamer,” “electrically charged,” and above all “beautiful”: a bestower of glory and haloes; a shadow-maze, an oracle, a cipher. It’s the timeless current that recalls for Maclean his brother, Paul, and helps him come to terms, imperfectly, with Paul’s bewildering character and at last his murder.

The North Fork of the Blackfoot River (web photo)

In July and August, the Blackfoot pours like molten crystal through long, at times suddenly sharp, curves, tinged emerald in its channels and holes. But in mid-May this year it raged down in such muddy volume that its rapids’ usual din fell to a whisper—an unnerving sign of power and mass—and it flooded flatter parts of the valley floor in shining swaths. I wondered how the fabled trout within it were surviving such forces.

At various points, Highway 200 and the river diverge, to cross again miles further down. At each successive crossing that day its torrent seemed doubled. Near the sawmill and railroad town of Bonner, where the Blackfoot joins with the Clark Fork River, it ran as wild and full as I could have imagined possible for the river I had known since childhood.

A few miles yet further down, in Missoula, the Clark Fork surged too. As its banks bloomed obliviously with lilac and chokecherry, the river smashed through town at 100-year flood levels, completely drowning Brennan’s Wave, the white-water hydraulic there beloved of kaykers and river surfers. Norman Maclean’s Blackfoot had here become T.S. Eliot’s strong brown god —“sullen, untamed, and intractable.”

The Clark Fork River in Missoula May 2018

Brennan’s Wave in May a few years ago

Most of the city itself hadn’t flooded, though, and bustled with the business of graduation, taking note of the Clark Fork’s maelstrom from its bridges but preoccupied with its own rhythms and rituals.

Indeed nearly all weekend the weather and setting were paradisal. The crabapples’ white profusion disappeared here and there into the snows of the Missoula Valley’s five surrounding mountain ranges. Lawns and trees pulsed green in long spring light. There were parties for the graduates and their families, smiles and toasts and a palpable sense of relief. The student house where my nephew lived stood just a block west of the campus, a neighborhood that includes beautiful yards and small mansions of various architectural inspiration.

Charles C. Brothers Residence under restoration

Missoula embraces its identity as a political and civic oasis in a deep red state, still retaining some air of the working-class progressivism forged through its early ties to the railroads, timber industry, and Forest Service. The university, of course, has long reinforced this culture on its own terms, as do Patagonia-wearing millionaires who’ve moved there for close access to wilderness. The city itself has bucked the regressive zoning and land-use trends elsewhere in Montana to restrict sprawl and keep the bare foothills cradling it mostly development-free. Those foothills constantly draw the gaze upward and shift with clouds and light; from the busy center of town their emptiness somehow calms the heart.

Alley art downtown

Alchemy along the walls at Butterfly Herbs

In Missoula, on the south bank of the Clark Fork

Missoula cherishes its oddities, too, human and otherwise—probably none moreso than the dramatis personae haunting the Smead-Simons building, Montana’s first skyscraper, known as the Wilma. Standing tall on the downtown-side bank of the Clark Fork, the building’s early history (available in various accounts) revolves mainly around its opulent movie theater and the Crystal Plunge, an indoor Olympic-size pool (another Montana first). Through the years chapters featuring a perfumed fountain, Mahalia Jackson, ornithomania, and David Lynch were added. Its apotheosis was the Chapel of the Dove, a shrine assembled in its basement to venerate Korro Hatto, the beloved pet pigeon of longtime Wilma owner Eddie Sharp.

Though openly gay (when being so in the American West carried serious risk) and half her age, Sharp had married Edna Simons (née Wilma), the widow of the the Wilma’s founding owner and a former Vaudeville singer. Sharp revered and dearly loved her. According to Missoulians I know, but no written account I could find, Sharp came recognize Korro Hatto as Edna Simons-Sharp’s reincarnation at some point after her death in 1954; the chapel was an exact replica of chapel where they had married four years earlier in New York City. Korro Hatto, Sharp’s constant shoulder-perching companion, lived to the age of twenty, and they are interred together, along with Sharp’s subsequent partner of forty years, Robert Sias, in Missoula City Cemetery.

Missoula is now home to several start-up breweries and distilleries, but still hosts a number of its original taverns, most notable (to me, anyway), the Oxford—”the Ox”—whose blackjack tables never close and which used to serve brains and eggs as part of its 24-hour breakfast menu. The poet Richard Hugo, perhaps besides Maclean the most famous literary figure who lived and taught in Missoula, drank and socialized here and in the town’s numerous other “cavelike, majestically slow-moving Western barrooms.”

Stars are not in reach. We touch each other by forgetting stars in taverns, and we know the next man when we overhear his grief. Call the heavens cancerous for laughs, and pterodactyls clown deep in that fragmented blue. In that red heart a world is beating counter to the world.

Soon enough, It was time to drive back, to cross the Divide again in my rental car (which my youngest nephews, twins, relentlessly deemed “gutless”)—this time from west to east. The flight home to Minnesota would depart the next morning at a harsh pre-dawn hour.

After goodbyes, we headed out in a caravan. I did so with a heavy heart—the weekend had been too short, the family time joyous but jumbled, the fragrant sliver of springtime achingly perfect. The road from Missoula to Great Falls is still beautiful, though the views eventually resolve, once over Rogers Pass, into the forlornness of eastern Montana. The late afternoon sun, falling behind us, kept out of our eyes and lit the shifting landscapes ahead. The Blackfork River dwindled as we climbed, at first only slightly, but by Lincoln decidedly. The snows on pass had mostly melted away. We sped through Lewis and Clark and Cascade counties, past ranches and windbreaks and homemade antigovernment signs nailed to fenceposts, anxious for our destination. At Vaughn, though, rather than taking the interstate where it crosses highway 200, we cut off on the road leading to First People’s Buffalo Jump State Park, or the Ulm pishkun as it’s locally known. The twilit hills and coulees glowed pink and gold. We stopped and got out of the car at the turnoff to McIver Road just to take in the sunset for a few minutes, then got back in and drove the rest of the way to my brother’s house before dark.

#montana #norman maclean #eastern montana #missoula #lewis and clark #brennans wave #A River Runs Through It #first peoples buffalo jump #richard hugo #charles c brothers residence #the wizard of oz #dorian gray

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Drexel University presents ten architecture and design projects

A graphic novel examining Black history and a project focused on tourism and sustainability in New Orleans are included in Dezeen's latest school show from students at Drexel University.

Also included is a housing project designed for the elderly in South Korea and an eco-retreat dedicated to connecting its guests to wildlife.

Drexel University

School: Drexel University, Department of Architecture, Design and Urbanism Courses: B Architecture, BS Interior Design, MS Interior Architecture and MS Design Research Tutors: Professors Mangold, Nicholas, Schade and Temple-West

School statement:

"Drexel University offers the nation's top programmes for experiential learning with dedicated co-op work experiences and a mission of civic engagement.

"The Department of Architecture, Design and Urbanism includes undergraduate programmes in architecture and interior design and graduate programmes in interior architecture, design research and urban strategy.

"Work from our programmes explores qualities of place and considers that our lives are shaped by the spaces we inhabit. At all scales, we respond to the form, light and materials of the world around us, and we actively engage our social and natural environments.

"Through research and design interventions, our work enhances our lives and promotes community."

Integrating Transit, History and the Public Realm: Creating a New Dignified Commons for Centre City Philadelphia by Christopher Hytha

"The underground complexity of downtown Philadelphia amazes me. In the heart of the city, far below the streets, a labyrinth of concourses, rail lines and service tunnels weave together in the service of getting urban dwellers from place to place.

"Unfortunately, the experience of descending to the underground is one of detachment, disorientation and dismay. What if these systems were integrated into the experience of the city? What if natural daylight penetrated into the deepest train platform and views of City Hall oriented visitors upon arrival?

"Picking up on cues from William Penn's plan and Ed Bacon's Penn Centre Vision, my project aims to create a dignified public realm activated by a multimodal transportation hub."

Student: Christopher Hytha Course: B.Arch Architecture Tutor: Katie Broh, AIA

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Mitigating the Dangers of Concrete Jungles with Biotecture by Mizuki Davis

"The current segregation of living and non-living systems, especially in our cities, has had devastating effects on both humans and the environment.

"With biotecture, the synthesis of biology and architecture, we can design a brighter future, in which our philosophical understanding of the 'natural environment' incorporates architecture as an integrated constituent."

Student: Mizuki Davis Course: MS Interior Architecture Tutor: Rena Cumby

Azola Eco Retreat by Abby Karle

"The Azola is a self-fertilising plant that creates a healthy environment for itself and the plants around it. This positive regeneration loop is the crux of the design.

"An upscale eco-retreat, connecting guests to the local ecosystem through wildlife, sustainable activities, farm-to-table culinary experiences, and ultimately to themselves and each other. The interior design aims to follow the forms found in nature to create movement and blur the line of interior and exterior."

Student: Abby Karle Course: BS Interior Design Tutor: Sarah Lippmann

The New Hanok: Aging with Grace, Yang-Pyeong, South Korea by David Jae Hyeok Lim

"Ageing is a natural part of our lives. With rapid modernisation, the ageing population has been forgotten, and resources for this group have been significantly lacking. Instead of dreading this upcoming chapter of our lives, I believe it has the potential to be as joyful and fulfilling as the rest of our lives.

"I propose this housing project for the elderly in South Korea, which has the fastest-growing ageing population in the world, to provide a new prototype which is a housing facility that can provide consolation, growth and opportunity that the older generation deserves.

"Aging can be difficult and a frightening time… but can be made more bearable by a community that provides opportunity. Ageing should not be about staying alive. It should be about finding joy and having the freedom to do better and live better."

Student: David Jae Hyeok Lim Course: B Architecture Tutor: Kelly Vresilovic, AIA

Resistance: Speculative Design Confronts Systemic Trauma of the Black Diaspora by Karla Roberts

"Grounded in Afrofuturism, this thesis explores architectural and interior spaces in a parallel universe using the narrative form of the graphic novel.

"The intent is to highlight the erasure of Black history prior to enslavement, giving space for a positive future unbound by anti-Black hatred. The past, present and future of the Black Diaspora are synthesised utilising history, technology and imaginative outcomes."

Student: Karla Roberts Course: MS Interior Architecture Tutor: Sarah Lippmann

Multicultural Centre by Maryam Abdou

"This multicultural student centre employs fundamental resources for facilitating the transition of international students throughout their college career. The centre creates a safe space that stimulates healing and inclusivity in its design. International students are encouraged to acclimate not only as students at an American university but also to American life and culture.

The design of this centre is devised to boost intercultural and interracial engagement through cultural, artistic, environmental, culinary and academic levels. It aims to strengthen students' connection with their community and nature through building relationships with other international and American students.

"By utilising design methods such as biodesign and biophilia, this multicultural centre will thrive as an exceptional, sustainable space that aspires to connect people from all around the globe and celebrate what makes every one of them special."

Student: Maryam Abdou Course: BS Interior Architecture Tutor: Karen Pelzer

Tourism and Sustainability in New Orleans by Rachel Ayella-Silver

"Tourism is unsustainable and must be reconceived as a way to improve the wellbeing of host communities and sustain the social, environmental and economic conditions of destination regions.

"This thesis places New Orleans at the centre, with spaces for community engagement through cooking, service and leisure to create tourist experiences that are authentic and sustainable."

Student: Rachel Ayella-Silver Course: MS Interior Architecture Tutor: Sequoyah Hunter-Cuyjet

Saudades da Natureza: Longing for Nature by Raphaella Pereira

"Within the last decade, Brazil's urban cities have grown exponentially due to the increase of its advanced economy and new technologies. This rapid urbanisation has also caused a rise in mental health and environmental issues within these cities, as their natural forests have been destroyed, thus disrupting the balance of life.

"I am challenging the typical design approach in urban development by proposing a mental wellness centre designed with a focus on biophilic design in Brazil's largest city of São Paulo, otherwise known as 'The Stone Jungle.'

"This model of design is intended to restore the balance of the natural and built environment in our cities, bringing back life into the urban environment of Brazil."

Student: Raphaella Pereira Course: B Architecture Tutor: Richard King, AIA

Cultures of Place – Ethical Design Solutions for Urban Density by Rachel Jahr

"Cultures of Place explores the intersection of cultures, places and ecologies. It examines how to combine them through an integrated level of design thinking intentionally.

"This focuses on the shifting perceptions of urban living through permaculture practices and regenerative design techniques. It aims to create solutions considering cultural, economic and green space factors as prominent design issues.

"Permaculture introduced into the urban design fabric is a nonviolent form of civil disobedience – a type of silent anarchy using the interconnectedness between people, other animals, land, water and air with the human dimension battling the social and biophysical conflicts.

"The research outlines the mechanisms related to designing an ecologically friendly urban setting through a place-based approach influenced by the human lived experience as well as technological advancements to close of the knowledge gap about Earth's systems."

Student: Rachel Jahr Course: MS Design Research Tutor: Nicole Koltick

Sondr Art Centre by Lorraine Francisco

"Creating art without limits involves celebrating one's individuality through creativity and imagination. This community centre highlights the importance of the arts through unity and inclusivity with the contrasting elements of chaos and organisation.

"It is with these opportunities in mind that this space embraces natural light, openness and community with the intention of growth, education, and creation as the overall objective."

Student: Lorraine Francisco Course: BS Interior Design Tutor: Frances Temple-West

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This school show is a partnership between Dezeen and Drexel University. Find out more about Dezeen partnership content here.

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National Examiner, March 15

You can buy a copy of this issue for your very own at my eBay store: https://www.ebay.com/str/bradentonbooks

Cover: Arnold Schwarzenegger and his secret son Joseph Baena

Page 2: Cars of the Stars -- what they drove before they became famous -- Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt, Barack Obama, Tom Cruise, Vin Diesel

Page 3: Cameron Diaz, Katy Perry, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jon Stewart, Mila Kunis

Page 4: John Travolta's roles and costumes

Page 6: Charlie's Angels' star Jaclyn Smith reveals her secret recipe for her favorite green smoothie for staying young

Page 7: Treasure Chest -- meet the hairy hunks of Hollywood who aren't afraid to show off their chest hair -- Hugh Jackman, Antonio Banderas, Lee Majors, Nicolas Cage, Robert Redford, Steve Carell, Tom Selleck, Sam Elliott, Steve Guttenberg, Stanley Tucci, Alec Baldwin

Page 8: When a tiny one-year-old desperately needed a liver transplant , his uncle fearlessly stepped up to the plate and it ended up saving two lives

Page 9: Physical activity is one of the cornerstones of good health; in the U.S., only 19 percent of women and 26 percent of men currently meet the CDC's Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans, which recommended that adults get at least 150 minutes of moderate-intensity aerobic physical activity, or an equivalent combination, each week

* Peppermint is a minty herb native to Europe and Asia and for hundreds of years, people have used peppermint both as a flavoring and for its medicinal properties and they all come together with a cup of tasty tea

Page 10: Joseph Valadez recently received his college diploma at age 62, after spending half his life in prison

Page 11: Your Health -- being the strong, silent type is dangerous -- men must speak up when health issues appear

Page 12: George Clooney's rock bottom -- George barely survived a terrifying motor scooter accident and the brush with death brought him face-to-face with the worst moment of his life -- in July 2018 he was working in Italy on Catch-22 which he directed and also starred in and George was riding a scooter on the island of Sardinia when a Mercedes cut across his path and sparked the horrific crash where George catapulted over the bike's handlebars -- George says he'll never forget that instead of trying to help him, people were trying to snap pictures of the horrendous collision -- George has given up riding scooters since the accident on the orders of his wife, Amal Clooney

Page 14: Dear Tony, America's Top Psychic Healer -- however unhappy your life, change is always the answer

Page 15: Mariachi bands make everybody smile and that's why the neighbors of one family band got together to help them stay afloat in hard times

Page 16: Royal Ensemble -- what the stars wore to meet Queen Elizabeth -- Madonna, Jayne Mansfield, Joan Collins and Anthony Newley, Marilyn Monroe, Elton John, Angelina Jolie

Page 17: Yoko Ono, Barbra Streisand, Sally Field, Meryl Streep, Kirk Douglas, Halle Berry

Page 18: Fading eyesight is a common symptom of old age, but you can help keep your vision sharp just by eating the right foods -- Australian dietician Susie Burrell says these superfoods fight age-related eye problems, including macular degeneration and cataracts: kiwi, Brazil nuts, kale, chia, red pepper

Page 19: It was a race against time for a crocodile that ate a shoe and there was nothing in the medical literature to help surgeons figure out how to remove the offending footwear from the croc's stomach -- Anuket had gobbled up a sneaker that fell from someone ziplining above her pen at a St. Augustine alligator farm in Jacksonville, Florida. It threatened to cause a painful and possibly fatal blockage but docs at the University of Florida Veterinary Hospital put their best foot forward until they finally managed to extract the slime-coated sneaker

Page 20: Cover Story -- Arnold Schwarzenegger's secret son Joseph Baena -- it's complicated -- Arnold gushes with pride over his 23-year-old secret son Joseph and they're super close -- Joseph adores his dad and he wants to be just like him and he's doing just that by landing a part in the upcoming sci-fi flick The Chariot

Page 22: A kidnapped little girl is safe today thanks to two hero sanitation workers who acted on a hunch -- an Amber Alert went out after the ten-year-old child was abducted from a family member's Louisiana home, but no one had reported any sightings of the vehicle that took her until Dion Merrick and Brandon Antoine of Pelican Waste & Debris spotted a silver sedan and had a bad feeling about it so they called 911 and pulled their garbage truck over on the wrong side of the highway to block the car from escaping

* A brave firefighter who was quarantined in the hospital with a bad case of COVID-19 missed his buddies and they missed him back, so they found a clever workaround to visit him -- the Phoenix fire crew used a ladder truck so they could climb up and wave through the window to Dan Volcko, a 20-year veteran of the department

Page 24: After a storm dumped a foot of snow in Seattle, 90-year-old Fran Goldman was so determined to get her COVID-19 vaccine she walked six miles to get it -- Fran had spent weeks on the computer and phone desperately trying to get an appointment on the jab, but once she scored it, Seattle residents were told to stay off the dangerously icy roads so Fran bundled herself up in fleece pants and lots of layers, but wore a short-sleeved shirt underneath to make it easy for the nurse to give her the shot

Page 26: You're in Luck -- charms to help you heal, hope and fall in love -- horseshoes, dice, number seven, pennies, dreamcatchers, shooting star, elephants, ladybugs

Page 28: Keeping Pets Happy and Healthy -- Paws for Concern -- how dogs tell you they need help

* Vet time for kitty -- 8 warning signs your cat needs a checkup

Page 32: Mystical power of wind -- the breeze affects us all spiritually because air is made up of positive and negative energy -- ancient Greeks believed in the magical qualities of air pressure, speed and direction

Page 34: Leader of the Pack -- Elizabeth Starck has fostered nearly 500 pups, and she has no intention of stopping -- bighearted Elizabeth works with Southern Indiana Animal Rescue, a dedicated group that pairs up dogs with foster homes -- after the pooches come through her portal, Elizabeth feeds them, rubs their bellies and gives them their meds, sometimes administering up to 30 pills to different dogs twice a day -- eventually she sends them off to forever homes, even though it's so hard to say goodbye

Page 40: Don't turn up your nose at garlic -- every day, medical experts around the world are discovering new uses for the amazing herb -- toothache, hives, infection, fatigue, asthma and bronchitis, diabetes, arthritis, blood clots, heart disease, cancer, back pain, acne

Page 42: 20 things you didn't know about Sarah Jessica Parker

Page 44: Eyes on the Stars -- Mariska Hargitay snaps a pic in Manhattan on the set of Law & Order: Organized Crime (picture), Blue Bloods stars Donnie Wahlberg and Marisa Ramirez get goofy in Brooklyn (picture), John Legend strikes a pose in Hollywood (picture), Bette Midler and Martin Von Haselberg got hitched in 1984 but she recently revealed she only saw photos of their Las Vegas wedding just five years ago, Ricki Lake is hoping the third time's the charm as she's engaged to filmmaker Ross Burningham, Emma Roberts and Garrett Hedlund welcomed son Robert Rhodes but they aren't the only superstars in the little guy's life -- Garrett's Country Song co-star Tim McGraw is Rhodes' godfather

Page 45: Princess Eugenie and Jack Brooksbank cuddle their infant son August (picture), Steve Martin bumps into an extra on the NYC set of an upcoming comedy series called Only Murders in the Building (picture), Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's divorce will be straightforward, Tim Allen and Richard Karn have reunited for a History Channel show called Assembly Required, Jaime King filed for divorce from Kyle Newman nearly nine months ago after 13 years of marriage but while they've been duking it out in court over custody of their two sons Kyle has gotten a jump on starting a new family with Cyn who is a singer also known as Cynthia Nabozny revealed the new couple had a baby boy

Page 46: The send-off party for a beloved healer was all set at Rose Medical Center in Denver and the one everyone had gathered to celebrate came in on all fours -- Wynn the service-dog trainee wagged her tail and rolled over for belly rubs as the emotional emergency-room staff thanked her for keeping them sane during the most difficult of their COVID-19 pandemic days

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Emmeline Pankhurst

Emmeline Goulden Pankhurst was born in Moss Side, Manchester on the 15th of July 1858. She was a political activist and leader of the Suffragette movement in Britain, and her work is widely viewed as crucial to achieving women’s enfranchisement.

Her parents, Robert and Sophia Jane, were very politically active, and she was introduced women’s suffrage at 14 years old. When she was 21 (1879) she met Richard Pankhurst, a barrister who was 24 years older than her and known for his support of the cause. He funded her activities outside the home.

Pankhurst founded the Women’s Franchise League, which campaigned suffrage for both married and unmarried women. When that fell apart, she joined the Independent Labour Party, but was originally denied membership because she was a woman.

While she worked at Poor Law Guardian she was shocked at the conditions she found in Manchester’s workhouses. Her husband died in 1898.

In 1880, Pankhurst gave birth to their eldest child, Christabel, and in 1882 she had Estelle Sylvia and Francis Henry in 1884. Adela was born in 1885. Francis died on the 11th of September of diphtheria, and their next son, born in 1889, was named Henry Francis in honour of him.

In 1903, she founded the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU), a women’s organisation that was dedicated to “deeds not words”. It became known for violence, with its members smashing windows and assaulting police officers.

Pankhurst, her daughters (Christabel, Sylvia and Adela) and other WSPU members received repeated prison sentences, where they staged hunger strikes to get better conditions.

Animosity between the WSPU and the government grew when Christabel took over and the group began to commit arson. In 1913, prominent members left the group, including Adela and Sylvia. Emmeline was so angry that she gave Adela £20, a letter of introduction to an Australian suffragette and made her emigrate. This created a split in the family that was never healed, and Sylvia became a socialist.

Pankhurst ordered the halt of the suffragette movement when WWI, instead she made them aid industries and make propaganda promoting military service. In 1918 they were rewarded for their efforts with the Representation of the People Act (1918) which granted votes to men over 21 and women over 30.

Pankhurst turned the WSPU into the Women’s Party, which was dedicated to promoting women’s equality in public life.

Years later, she became concerned with the threat she saw in Bolshevism and joined the Conservative Party. She was the Conservative candidate for Stepney in 1927.

She died on the 28th of June, just weeks before the Conservative government passed the Representation of the People Act (1928), which granted women over 21 the vote.

She was buried in Brompton Cemetery and there is a statue of her in the Victoria Tower Garden.

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Minor Hotels to Operate Clinique La Prairie's First Aesthetics and Medical Spa Outside of Europe

Minor Hotels has partnered with Clinique La Prairie to operate the Swiss health clinic's very first aesthetics and medical spa outside of Europe. Due to launch later this year, the Clinique La Prairie Aesthetics & Medical Spa will operate at The St. Regis Bangkok under MSpa International, the corporate division of spa and wellness within Minor Hotels. The St. Regis Bangkok is owned by Minor Hotels. The state-of-the-art medical spa will offer forever young treatments and healing therapies in line with Clinique La Prairie’s commitment to helping and inspiring people to live a healthier, longer and better life.

Simone Gibertoni, CEO of Clinique La Prairie, said, “Since 1931, Clinique La Prairie is a unique destination where the level of care enwraps the guests in cutting edge health care and wellness. After nearly 90 years of heritage in Switzerland, the clinic's ambition is to offer its expertise and its holistic approach to well-being - based on the four pillars of medical care, wellness, nutrition and exercise – abroad.” Slated to open in 2020, Bangkok’s Clinique La Prairie Aesthetics & Medical Spa will be located on the 15th floor of The St. Regis Bangkok. The facility will feature dedicated male and female relaxation areas, each spread over two floors with a relaxation lounge and floating pods, locker facilities, showers and restrooms on the mezzanine level, while the lower wet area of each showcase steam rooms, jacuzzis, cold plunge pools, and experience showers inviting personalized selection of water pressure, lighting and music. Zoe Wall, Group Director of MSpa International, said, “Clinique La Prairie is a global leader when it comes to longevity-based programs. The Clinique La Prairie Aesthetics & Medical Spa will bring a host of exclusive firsts to Bangkok. A team of medical spa professionals and aesthetics medicine specialists will combine expert knowledge with contemporary science and state-of-the-art technology to ensure bespoke experiences with a results-driven focus. Individual consultations to address longevity, beauty and nutrition will be available to guests in which they will receive a tailor-made program to enhance their lifestyle.” See latest Travel News, Interviews, Podcasts and other news regarding: Minor, Spa, Wellness. Headlines: Marriott Opens First Aloft Hotel in Bali, Indonesia Thai Airways Cancels International Flights in Asia and Europe Bangkok Airways Makes Major Changes to Domestic and Int. Flight Schedules Air Astana Makes Changes to Int. 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