They include Erik Hersman, Juliana Rotich, Ory Okolloh, and David Kobia.

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A week ago, Africa tech blogger Erik Hersman read a post by Kenyan tech and human rights blogger Ory Okolloh calling for a web application to track incidents of violence and areas of need during the post-election turmoil in Kenya.

Within a few days, Hersman had organized Okolloh and a couple of like-minded developers in the U.S. and Kenya to make the idea a reality.

The result is Ushahidi.com (Ushahidi means "witness" or "evidence" in Swahili).

Five days after launch, the site has had more than 13,000 page views, with more than two dozen reports published so far.

This isn't our typical VentureBeat story, but it's a timely one, especially with things as grave as they are in Kenya right now — and shows how innovation and entrepreneurship comes in many ways.

The site lets anyone on the ground in Kenya fill out an incident report (riots, deaths, looting, etc) either online or via text message.

It then has volunteers attempt to verify those reports either with the media or with local NGOs, and displays the incidents on a Google map.

Visitors to the site can click on any incident to get more detailed information.

Ushahidi.com is very much a labor of love.

Its developers built it and are running it with no financial interest.

Hersman expects to register the site as a non-profit and draw in donations to help keep it going.

He and his co-developers currently rely on local Kenyan NGOs to help report and verify incidents, although NGO reports sometimes come in "unofficially," since some of these organizations are reluctant to openly contradict government reports.

And Hersman hopes that his group will be able to develop relationships with more NGOs going forward so that the site provides more thorough coverage of what's happening.

Today, the site posted an as-yet-unverified report that a large number of orphans in Nairobi have scattered from their NGO caregivers, who've been overwhelmed by the surge of chaos.

A January 9 report out of the town of Kisii asks people to transfer phone credits to help pay for gas needed to transport displaced people back to their homes.

Hersman, a web strategy consultant based in Orlando, developed the structure of the site, and David Kobia, an Alabama-based programmer, coded the site.

Kenyans Okolloh and Daudi Were handle relationships with the NGOs, while Kobia and Hersman handle day-to-day operation of the site.

Hersman, the son of missionaries, was raised in Kenya and Sudan.

He writes about African web and mobile startups in his personal blog, WhiteAfrican.com, and also runs a popular group blog called AfriGadget that has multiple African contributors who focus on helping Africans solve Africa's problems.

After growing Ushahidi in Kenya, he hopes to develop a global site to handle crisis situations anywhere in the world.

The technology to do so, he says, is already available.

Here are requirements for such a site, he says: A map, incident pages, sorting by category, image and video hosting/embedding, opportunities [for donors] to help financially.

He and Kobia have put together an executive summary for such a global site and are looking for funding.

After getting a few thousand dollars, he and Kobia will be able to launch a web site in just a couple weeks, Hersman says, but will still need donations to help support the project.

For other coverage of how Kenya's technology infrastructure is causing it to handle its problems differently from other African countries, see our recent article on citizen reporting during the election riots.

David Adewumi, a contributing writer with VentureBeat, is the founder & CEO of http://heekya.com a social storytelling platform billed "The Wikipedia of Stories."

Ushahidi (Swahili for "testimony" or "witness") is a website created in the aftermath of Kenya's disputed 2007 presidential election (see 2007–2008 Kenyan crisis) that collected eyewitness reports of violence sent in by email and text-message and placed them on a Google map. It is also the name of the open source software developed for that site, which has since been improved, released freely, and used for a number of similar projects around the globe.
 The Kenyan site was developed and run by several bloggers and software developers, all current or former residents of Kenya.


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In 1997, he was awarded the Medal of Honor, the nation's highest military decoration for valor, for his actions on December 26, 1944, in the vicinity of Sommocolonia, Italy.

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Lieutenant Fox was a member of Cannon Company, 366th Infantry, 92d Infantry Division, acting as a forward observer, while attached to the 598th Field Artillery Battalion.

Christmas Day in the Serchio Valley was spent in positionswhich had been occupied for some weeks.

During Christmas night, there was a gradual influx of enemy soldiers in civilian clothes and by early morning the town was largely in enemy hands.

An organized attack by uniformed German formations was launched around 0400 hours, 26 December 1944.

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He called for artillery fire increasingly close to his own position.

He told his battalion commander, "That was just where I wanted it.

His commander protested that there was a heavy barrage in the area and the bombardment would be too close.

Lieutenant Fox gave his adjustment, requesting that the barrage be fired.

The Germans continued to press forward in large numbers, surrounding the position.

Lieutenant Fox again called for artillery fire with the commander protesting again, stating, "Fox, that will be on you!"

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In 2008 the Supreme Court held that that protocol did not violate the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishments.

Anti-death-penalty advocates pressured pharmaceutical companies to prevent sodium thiopental and another barbiturate (pentobarbital) from being used in executions.

Oklahoma substituted a 500-milligram dose of midazolam, a sedative.

Oklahoma death-row inmates filed suit under 42 U.S.C. 1983, arguing that a 500-milligram dose of midazolam will not render them unable to feel pain associated with administration of the second and third drugs.

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He stepped down in December, to take up the financially lucrative post as advisor to the Saudi Arabia national football team.

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He was appointed manager at Portuguese side Sporting CP for the 1972–73 campaign. He was sacked before the end of the season due to a poor showing in the Primeira Liga – the club ended up in the fifth place, equalling their worst ever finish, despite the goalscoring form of Héctor Yazalde. Champions S.L. Benfica won 28 of their 30 league games. In spite their league form, new manager Mário Lino did lead Sporting to their ninth Taça de Portugal success, after defeating Vitória 3–2 at the Estádio Nacional.
 He returned to the Midlands to take up the management reins at Walsall in July 1973. However he spent just six months in charge at Fellows Park. The "Sadders" finished the 1973–74 campaign fifteenth in the Third Division. He returned to West Bromwich Albion as a scouting advisor in January 1977, before being installed as manager six months later.  He recommended the club sign Cyrille Regis, who would become the club's main striker for the next seven years and part of the "Three Degrees" with Brendon Batson and Laurie Cunningham.


On August 10, Smith was hired to replace Tony Stewart in the Cheez-It 355 at The Glen after Stewart hit and killed a driver during a sprint car race the previous day.

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Published 7:33 a.m. ET Aug. 10, 2014 | Updated 3:36 p.m. ET Aug. 10, 2014

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Tony Stewart during the Quicken Loans 400 at Michigan International Speedway in June.(Photo: Andrew Weber, USA TODAY Sports)

Tony Stewart will not race Sunday at Watkins Glen International.

Just a few hours after telling USA TODAY Sports that Sunday would be ''business as usual,'' and Stewart would race as scheduled, the team reversed course.

Greg Zipadelli, vice president of competition for Stewart-Haas Racing, announced the three-time Sprint Cup champion would not start the Cheez-It 355 at The Glen a day after striking and killing an on-foot driver in a sprint car race.

"It's an emotional time right now," Zipadelli said.

Stewart released a statement after the race began that read:

"There aren't words to describe the sadness I feel about the accident that took the life of Kevin Ward Jr.

It's a very emotional time for all involved, and it is the reason I've decided not to participate in today's race at Watkins Glen.

My thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends and everyone affected by this tragedy."

Zipadelli, who said the team would not discuss last night's incident, said he met with Stewart this morning and "he feels strongly this is the right thing to do.

This is what we feel is right and we're supporting Tony in it."

Zipadelli originally told USA TODAY Sports that Stewart would start today and ''we're business as usual.''

STEWART: Hits, kills driver in sprint car race

Stewart struck and killed driver Kevin Ward Jr., 20, who approached his car on-foot after an on-track incident at Canandaigua (N.Y.) Motorsports Park, about an hour north of Watkins Glen International.

Friends and family members of Ward Jr. are gathering at the Ward home in Port Leyden, N.Y.

The family has issued this statement: "The family appreciates all the prayers and support and would like time to grieve at this point."

Earlier Sunday, NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said: "Everything that's been made available to us at this time would not preclude (Stewart) from participating in this event here today.

He also said earlier that NASCAR has been monitoring the situation and will "honor the process and respect the timeline of the local authorities."

"Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family and friends and competitors and everyone involved at that complex up there," Tharp said.

"While it was a non-NASCAR-sanctioned event, everyone in the motor sports community has feelings for these types of situations.

Before Stewart withdrew from the race and about 15 minutes after his original comments, Tharp again emphasized that it was too early to say whether Stewart would be racing at Watkins Glen because NASCAR was still gathering information.

Greg Zipadelli, vice president of competition for Stewart-Haas Racing, announced Stewart would not race Sunday

After Zipadelli announced Stewart would not race, NASCAR released this statement: "Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family, friends, and fellow competitors of Kevin Ward Jr.

We support Tony Stewart's decision to miss today's race and we will continue to respect the process and timeline of the local authorities and will continue to monitor this situation moving forward."

During Saturday night's sprint car race, Ward Jr. was spun out by Stewart, got out of his car to show his displeasure and then was struck by Stewart's car, sending Ward sliding down the track, fellow sprint car racer Tyler Graves and witness Adam Dulski told USA TODAY Sports.

"This is an ongoing investigation of an on-track crash," Ontario County (N.Y.) Sheriff Philip C. Povero said early Sunday morning.

Later Sunday afternoon, Povero said his investigation continues 16 hours after the deadly crash and that deputies are in Watkins Glen today to speak with Stewart or his representatives.

Povero said he has seen no evidence to date of criminal intent on Stewart's part.

Povero asked witnesses and anyone with video of the crash to contact his office at (585) 394-4560.

The sheriff also wants to talk with anyone with expertise in this type of racing.

Povero said authorities are waiting, among other things, on a forensic recreation of the crash and an autopsy on Ward by the Monroe County Medical Examiner's Office.

The crash was a topic of conversation early Sunday morning among race fans at Watkins Glen.

"Everybody was talking about it, and everybody has seen the video," said 42-year-old Leo Smith of Perinton, a suburb of Rochester, N.Y.

Smith camped at the track and had spoken with 10-15 other fans by 7:30 a.m.

Dale Earnhardt Jr. tweeted Sunday: "We will all loose someone in our time.

When a loss is sudden and unexpected, the pain & sadness is suffocating.

— Dale Earnhardt Jr. (@DaleJr) August 10, 2014

Canandaigua Motorsports Park track president and race director Chuck Miller told the Associated Press:

"I can't see that anybody would've done anything intentional like that.

(Stewart's) been great when he's with us.

We've had a very good relationship with Tony.

We've been proud to have him in our field.

Even what he is, when he comes to our races, he's there to race.

He's not under contract to some of these tracks, he just shows up."

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— Jenna Fryer (@JennaFryer) August 10, 2014

Jeff Gordon will start on the pole for the Cheez-It 355 at The Glen.

Stewart, a five-time Watkins Glen winner, qualified 13th.

"We know it's just an unbelievable tragedy," Zipadelli said during a hastily called news conference at 10:15 a.m.

"Our hearts go out to Kevin and his family.

This is a very tough, very emotional time for everybody -- his family, our family at Stewart-Haas, Tony Stewart."

Zipadelli said NASCAR had approved Smith to fill in and would help the team adjust the equipment for him.

In a statement, Bass Pro Shops, one of Stewart's primary sponsors on his No. 14 Chevrolet, said:

"All of us at Bass Pro Shops are all deeply saddened about last night's tragic accident at Canandaigua Motorsports Park.

We send our thoughts and prayers to the family and friends of sprint car competitor Kevin Ward Jr and also to Tony Stewart and everyone at Stewart-Haas Racing."

Kevin Ward, 20, died after being hit by Tony Stewart's car at Canandaigua Motorsports Park Saturday night.

Stewart, who co-owns the four-car stable Stewart-Haas Racing

could be eliminated from Chase for the Sprint Cup consideration by not starting.

NASCAR's new playoff format rules include that drivers start each of the 26 races leading up to the Chase to be eligible.

Stewart currently is 19th in points with no wins and would not make the 16-driver field without a win in one of the remaining five events before the cutoff.

"Honestly, that is the furthest thing from our minds right now," said Zipadelli, who indicated he would have supported whatever decision Stewart made.

"We're thinking of Kevin's family and Tony and the people at our company.

That's something that, when we get home on Monday, we'll have to look at and evaluate and go through that and make decisions.

Today is all about doing what we can today to get through today and get through it the best we can as a group -- and try to do it in the right way.

We haven't even crossed that bridge yet."

Stewart, a multimillionaire who broke his right leg in a sprint car accident in Iowa just over a year ago, will miss his first Cup start since missing the second half of 2013 to recover.

Ward's death comes on the heels of a tragic 2013 for sprint car racing:

--In March 2013, Dale Wondergem Jr., 68, and Marcus Johnson, 14, are killed when a car careens off Marysville Raceway Park and onto pit road in California.

Johnson was the cousin of Chase Johnson, who was participating in the race but not involved in the crash.

Wondergem owned a race car at the track.

--May 2013: Leroy Kay, 67, and David Richardson, 63, die from injuries incurred in a dirt 'dwarf' car race at Reno-Fernley Raceway in Reno, Nev.

Dwarf cars use motorcycle engines and can run about 100 mph.

--May 2013: Josh Burton, 22, dies from injuries sustained in a sprint car crash on the dirt track at Bloomington Speedway in Bloomington, Ind.

--June 12: Jason Leffler, 37, who ran in all three of NASCAR's circuits during his career, dies from injuries suffered in a sprint car crash at Bridgeport Speedway in Swedesboro, N.J.

Leffler was a close friend of tewart's and roomed with him while he was working his way up NASCAR's ladder.

--July 16: During the final off week of the Sprint Cup season, Stewart triggered a multicar pileup while racing for the lead at Canandaigua (N.Y.) Motorsports Park.

One of the drivers involved, 19-year-old Alysha Ruggles, suffered a back injury.

Stewart flips five times while racing at Ohsweken Speedway, a dirt track in Ontario, Canada.

He is uninjured and returns the next night to race a sprint car again.

--Aug. 4: Veteran hall of fame sprint car driver Kramer Williamson dies a day after being injured in a crash at Lincoln Speedway in Abbottsville, Pa.

--Aug. 5: Stewart is leading the main event at Southern Iowa Speedway when his sprint car hits a lapped car and flips.

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In 2005, Stewart won his second of three Cup titles, registering five wins including the Daytona summer race and the Brickyard.

Sean Dougherty, USA TODAY SportsFullscreenTony Stewart has won three Sprint Cup titles and is in his 15th season on the circuit.

always is a media crush around the three-time Sprint Cup champion, shown here at Daytona Speedweeks in 2010.

, Stewart became a team owner and driver with Stewart Hass Racing in 2009.

Davis Turner for USA TODAY SportsFullscreenIn May 2006, Stewart pours water on someone below the stage as he waits during driver introductions at Richmond International Raceway.

He got his first Cup win at the track in 1999.

David Graham, APFullscreenStewart celebrates his first Brickyard win by climbing the fence at the finish line with his team on Aug. 7, 2005.

Sam Riche, Indianapolis StarFullscreenAfter winning his first of two Cup races at the Brickyard in 2005, Stewart kisses the yard of bricks.

Eileen Blass, USA TODAY SportsFullscreenIn August 2002, Stewart won at Watkins Glen International's road course for his third victory that season.

He has competed on NASCAR's second-tier series off and on since 1996.

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 On May 24, Smith was tabbed as standby driver for the No. 24 Hendrick Motorsports car of Jeff Gordon in the event Gordon did not run the Coca-Cola 600 due to back spasms. Gordon would run the full 600 miles.


Collingwood retired from first-class and List A cricket in September 2018.

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Paul Collingwood has announced that his 22-year professional career will draw to a close at the end of this season.

His first England cap came in 2001, and there were many highlights, including playing a part in England's 2005 Ashes victory, making an Ashes double-century in Adelaide in 2006, and most notably leading England to their first-ever triumph in a global limited-overs tournament when they won the ICC World T20 2010.

He was also rated as one of the greatest fielders in the game's history, taking many stunning catches at backward point.

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— England Cricket (@englandcricket) September 13, 2018

He scored almost 10,000 international runs all told, and remains England's most capped ODI cricketer.

His last appearances for England came in 2011, though there was a brief international return last year, playing for the World XI as international cricket returned to Pakistan.

He has been kept busy by captaining his beloved Durham, which he has done since 2012, and has even shown signs of improving with age – he hit his maiden T20 century for them last year.

Collingwood pouches a stunning catch in the final to get England going

"I knew this day would eventually come but it hasn't made it any easier," he said.

"although it's an emotional decision, I know that the time is right and I'm comfortable knowing that I have given every last ounce of energy to the sport.

"I have achieved so much with both Durham and England; far more than I ever imagined and I feel extremely privileged to have had such a long and rewarding career."

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His first-class debut was in 1996 and he made his first appearance for England in One Day International cricket in 2001 and made his Test match debut in 2003. For two years he remained an occasional Test player but after selection for the final Test of the 2005 Ashes, he secured a regular place. His 206 during the 2006–07 Ashes was the first double century by an England batsman in Australia for 78 years and in a match that England lost. A series of three consecutive match-winning performances by Collingwood at the end of the 2006–07 Commonwealth Bank Series in Australia brought him enthusiastic approval in the British media. His "allround display of incredible nerve and tenacity" helped to secure the trophy for England. In 2010 he led the England team to their first ICC trophy, the 2010 World Twenty20. Until May 2019, he was England's most capped ODI cricketer and was, until passed by Ian Bell in 2015, the leading ODI run scorer.
 He announced his retirement from Test cricket in January 2011, during the 5th Test of the 2010–11 Ashes series. He finished on a high, becoming a three-times Ashes winner as England won a series in Australia for the first time in 24 years, with three innings victories contributing to a 3–1 win.


In 2019 Upton supported a bill banning sales between private individuals.

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# Gun background check bill has bipartisan support in Michigan delegation

Published 11:07 p.m. ET Jan. 27, 2019 | Updated 11:14 a.m. ET Jan. 28,

Various AR-15 semi-automatic rifles are seen on a vendor's table during the Gun and Knife Show at the Gibraltar Trade Center in Taylor in 2013.

(Photo: John T. Greilick, The Detroit News)

Washington — A new bill that aims to mandate background checks for nearly all commercial and private firearm purchases has bipartisan support within Michigan's congressional delegation.

The legislation introduced in Congress this month would close a loophole that allows people buying firearms through private sales, such as those at gun shows and online, to skip background checks.

Sponsors say the goal is to prevent sales to felons, domestic abusers and people with mental-health issues that would disqualify themfrom gun ownership.

With a few exceptions, anyone who isn't a licensed dealer would not be able to transfer firearms under the bill to ensure sales are run through the national criminal background check system.

U.S. Rep. Fred Upton, R-St. Joseph (Photo: Susan Walsh / AP)

Republican Rep. Fred Upton, Michigan's senior member in the U.S. House, is an original co-sponsor of the bill.

"This doesn't take away the legitimate rights of folks who want to own firearms," Upton said.

"Background checks are something I've always supported, and I think it closes some loopholes that got to be pretty glaring."

The southwest Michigan Republican recalled attending two Ducks Unlimited dinners last year where organizers raffled off shotguns.

Each winner had to undergo a background check before claiming the prize, he noted.

"If it can work at a setup like that, it should work at a gun show," Upton said.

"We have the technology today we didn't have before, so let's use it and let's deny folks that have a criminal background from being able to at least legally being able to get some of these weapons."

The legislation has 225 co-sponsors in the Democratic-controlled House, including six Michigan Democrats.

U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg, R-Tipton (Photo: Dale G. Young, The Detroit News)

Michigan's seventh Democrat, Rep. Elissa Slotkin of Holly, hasn't co-sponsored the measure but "definitely" supports it, she said.

"The Second Amendment and issues related to gun safety are very sensitive and polarizing but, wherever I went in my district, the common ground we always had was that if you want to buy a weapon, you should have to go through a standard background check," the freshman lawmaker said.

Slotkin — who carried a Glock 17 and an M4 semi-automatic weapon while deployed in Iraq — noted members of the military and Central Intelligence Agency must undergo the same background checks before weapons training.

Michigan Sens. Debbie Stabenow and Gary Peters, both Democrats, have sponsored a companion bill in the Senate, where the legislation is expected to face resistance from GOP lawmakers.

The National Rifle Association opposes the legislation, as it has similar measures in the past.

"So-called universal background checks will never be universal because criminals do not comply with the law," NRA spokeswoman Amy Hunter said by email.

"Instead of looking for effective solutions that will deal with the root cause of violent crime and save lives, anti-gun politicians would rather score political points and push ineffective legislation that doesn't stop criminals from committing crimes."

GOP Rep. Tim Walberg of Tipton also will not support the bill, describing it as "more gun control."

"While we have a shared desire of preventing acts of violence and protecting our communities, there are better approaches that respect the constitutional rights of law-abiding citizens," Walberg said in a statement.

U.S. Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn (Photo: David Guralnick / Detroit News)

"Our solutions should center around improving mental health care, addressing the underlying causes of violence and strengthening enforcement of existing laws."

Critics of the legislation noted that suspects in several mass shootings had cleared background checks, including the alleged shooter who last February killed 17 at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.

"You have to start someplace," said Rep. Debbie Dingell, D-Dearborn.

"If we can keep guns out of one person's hands who shouldn't have them, we should be doing it."

Upton noted the bill exempts private firearm transfers between certain family members.

Those include loans or gifts between spouses, immediate family members, aunts or uncles and their nieces or nephews, and grandparents or grandchildren, according to the bill text.

Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Rochester Hills (Photo: Clarence Tabb Jr., Detroit News)

The legislation also exempts transfers between law enforcement officers and military personnel acting in their official capacities, as well as transfers to executors of estates, and "temporary" transfers for hunting or "to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm."

Narrowing the bill to just deal with background checks increases its chances of making it into law, said Rep. Dan Kildee of Flint Township, who is chief deputy whip for House Democrats.

"Potentially, the kind of numbers that we get when we go to the floor could be big enough that it forces the president's hand, if we can get it through the Senate," Kildee said.

House Democrats said introducing the bill in the first weeks of the new Congress demonstrates their commitment to acting on gun reform.

On her first day in office, freshman Rep. Haley Stevens, D-Rochester Hills, sent a letter to colleagues saying reducing gun violence would be a top priority.

My first Dear Colleague letter: "Until the day that every American lives free from fear of gun violence, I urge you to join me in forcing the hand of Congress and the President to hold sacred American lives above the interests of the gun lobby.

We can and we will." pic.twitter.com/BBzN3Ksa2q

— Rep. Haley Stevens (@RepHaleyStevens) January 3, 2019

In addition to expanding background checks, she wants to look at consequences for people caught "fudging" their criminal history for a background check — a practice known as "try and buy," she said in an interview.

"Nothing is taking place to prevent that from happening again or to prosecute someone who's breaking the law,'" said Stevens, who campaigned last year on promises to address gun safety.

"There's consensus around background checks.

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U.S. House of Representatives.:Tenure.:Gun laws.

Upton does not support restrictions on the purchase and possession of guns in most circumstances, and in 2010 received "A" and "A-" ratings from the National Rifle Association and the Gun Owners of America, respectively. Upton supports some gun safety laws. From 1991-2003, Upton supported the interests of the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence 55 percent and in 1993, Upton supported a waiting period for gun purchase to provide background checks for criminal records.


The museum estimates that it has had over half a million visitors from every state in the U.S. and over 100 other countries, since its opening.

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Maj. Gen. Franklin A. Nichols Military Exhibit

Native Medicine, Healing & Ceramonialism

The Seminole Nation Museum is housed in the former

Wewoka Community Center, a native stone building built by the Works Progress

Administration (WPA) during the New Deal era.

Community Center is a unique feature to the Seminole County area.

roofline set it apart from more elaborate and ornate structures found throughout

is the old Lincoln Park Armory in Oklahoma City, which now

scale, shares many design elements with its Wewoka cousin.

Also like the Oklahoma City building, the

Wewoka Community Center became a museum in the early 1970s as time necessitated

The Seminole Nation Museum opened in the fall

of 1974 as the culmination of almost ten years planning and labor by the Wewoka

Originally, the Museum was to be located in a two-story WPA building

situated on the Seminole County Fair Grounds, but a fire decimated the building

before it could be rehabbed into a museum

City leaders responded by offering the old Community Center to the

building had been vacated by the City in the early 1970s when a new Civic

Center and City Hall had been constructed.

The American Legion was the building's only occupant, as they used it

for their monthly meetings and occasional special events

An agreement was reached between the Seminole

Nation Historical Society and the American Legion for the Museum to occupy the

space, with the consideration that they would maintain a military exhibition

honoring the men and women who selflessly served this country so that their

work and sacrifice should not be forgotten (a tradition that continues today).

When the Museum opened in November of 1974,

it contained approximately eighteen hundred square feet of exhibit space and a

Today, it has grown to include almost four thousand

square feet of display space, a research library,

arts and crafts center and an art gallery that displays original

works of art as well as hosts traveling exhibits throughout the year

grounds have grown more than six-fold, now encompassing the entire 500 block of

Wewoka Avenue, half of the city block to the east of the Museum and several

Since 2007, the Seminole Nation Museum has raised over $500,000 to

improve the safety, accessibility, structure and appearance of the Museum

new HVAC systems in the public spaces of the building and have built

climate-controlled storage environments for our artifacts and collections.

We have completely refurbished the building's

began on the Museum's interior with a $40,000 renovation of the building's gift

We have worked diligently with architects,

conservators and contractors to develop a facility of which the people of

Wewoka can be proud and to return the building to the unique architectural

style as originally envisioned by the WPA in the 1930s

Improvements to the Seminole Nation Museum's interior, exterior, and its grounds are funded by

The Seminole National Museum opened in 1974, after about ten years of planning by the Seminole community in Oklahoma. It is housed in a native stone building that initially served as the Wewoka Community Center, after it was built by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) in 1934. It operates as a non-profit organization, and does not charge an admission fee to visitors. The building has expanded from the original 1,800 square feet (170 m) to 4,000 square feet (370 m) and includes display space, a research library, an arts and crafts center, an art gallery, a small office and a gift shop. The museum offers educational courses both on site and on the road (both in Oklahoma and in other parts of the United States.


Hudgens was included in "Forbes" richest list in early 2007, and the "Forbes" article noted that she was included in "Young Hollywood's Top Earning-Stars".

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If the tabloids are to be believed, Hollywood's young stars are in big trouble.

Each day brings new tales--and the pictures to prove it--of junior VIPs, bereft of adult supervision, engaged in drinking, hard-partying, and the kind of sexual exploits typically reserved for pay-per-view.

But the salacious scenes of Britney, Paris and Nicole are overshadowing the other story in entertainment, that of the growing cadre of soon-to-be superstars, the most talented, aggressive and well-compensated group of showbiz kids in Hollywood history.

Forbes' Young Hollywood's Top-Earning Stars is an exclusive list of the entertainment industry's most sought-after talent under 21 years of age.

While a few--most notably Lindsay Lohan--are well known, most of these names aren't.

Commit them to memory--these are mega-careers in the making.

#### In Pictures: Young Hollywood's Top Earners

The premier seat belongs to 20-year-old hipster twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, former child stars of the hit ABC sitcom Full House.

Though the duo don't much act anymore--Mary-Kate makes a brief cameo in the recent Warhol flick Factory Girl--they nonetheless pocketed a combined $40 million last year thanks to their enormous following of "tween" fans, the market of kids ages 8 to 12, who snap up Olsen-branded tchochkes from their retail empire, Dualstar.

Even as young adults, the twiggy twins hold enormous sway over their fans.

Their so-called "homeless chic" of leggings and shapeless shirts has become the de rigeur uniform of mall chicks everywhere.

In addition to earning adult salaries, today's highest-paid showbiz kids also court adult controversy.

Harry Potter actor Daniel Radcliffe, 17, who earned an estimated $13 million last year for his lead role in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, ditches the wizard's cloak and trademark scarf this spring to appear onstage--in the buff--in the London revival of "Equus."

Lohan is third on the list, despite having scaled back her film commitments due to her recent stint in rehab.

Recall that the club-going star was publicly reprimanded by the Georgia Rule studio boss for her on- and off-set antics.

Even still, Lohan remains in strong demand, and is currently filming I Know Who Killed Me, a thriller distributed by Tristar Pictures, a division of

And 13-year-old Dakota Fanning, who lands at No. 4 with $4 million, inspired her first media maelstrom (how quickly they grow up!) for her sexually provocative starring role in Hounddog--her character gets raped--an independent film that premiered at this year's Sundance Film Festival.

Actress Abigail Breslin, 10, is the youngest star on this list, having upstaged her costars in last year's indie hit Little Miss Sunshine with her onstage shimmy to Rick James' "Superfreak."

The role nabbed her a Best Supporting Oscar nomination, pitting her against career veteran Cate Blanchett and hot newcomer Jennifer Hudson of Dreamgirls.

Check out Breslin in the latest Hewlett-Packard ads, as well as the upcoming Catherine Zeta Jones flick No Reservations.

Also landing on the list is Vanessa Anne Hudgens, the co-star of Disney's insanely popular made for television movie, High School Musical.

The Musical soundtrack was the best-selling album last year, according to Billboard.com, selling just under 4 million units and trumping even Justin Timberlake's FutureSex/LoveSounds.

Hudgens is already at work on the sequel.

Forbes analyzed box office receipts, album sales, tour grosses, TV ratings and other metrics to hone the list; earnings figures are best estimates for the full year 2006, based on information from industry experts.

These are conservative gross figures--no deductions for taxes or management fees have been taken.

Discretion was taken, based on recommendations from industry experts, in determining which of these showbiz kids boast the strongest shot at long term superstardom.

Hudgens was represented by William Morris Agency but signed on to Creative Artists Agency in 2011. In 2006, Hudgens' earnings were estimated to be $2 million.


The front cover marked the debut of band mascot Vic Rattlehead, who regularly appeared on subsequent album artwork.

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# MEGADETH: The Making Of The New 'Vic Rattlehead' Mask (Video)

MEGADETH and the band's official mascot, Vic Rattlehead, were featured on the hourlong premiere of Travel Channel's "Making Monsters" this past Sunday, September 30.

The Distortions team took a stab at recreating the Vic Rattlehead mask for MEGADETH's recent tour.

"Making Monsters" follows Distortions Unlimited, at its very basic a monster model-making company, but at its most refined is a world renowned leader in the horror industry.,

Distortions owner Ed Edmunds and the rest of the crew are headquartered in Greeley, Colorado.

Vic is a skeletal figure who embodies the phrase, "See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil."

His eyes are covered by a riveted-on visor, his mouth is clamped shut, and his ears are closed with metal caps.

His image appears on several MEGADETH album covers, including the band's first four LPs — "Killing Is My Business... And Business Is Good!", "Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?", "So Far, So Good... So What!" and "Rust In Peace".

Vic did not appear on the cover of any MEGADETH albums or compilations from 1991 to 2000.

However, when MEGADETH tried to bring back a more "classic" vibe to its material, the group also brought back its old mascot, and Vic returned for the 2001 album "The World Needs A Hero", the 2004 follow-up, "The System Has Failed", and 2007's "United Abominations".

In an August 2010 posting on the band's MySpace page, MEGADETH bassist David Ellefson stated about Vic's live debut, "In our ongoing effort to always improve the live show we had a special introduction of our beloved mascot Vic Rattlehead, who came out and domineered the stage during the song 'Dawn Patrol' in Cleveland, Ohio.

"Vic has been with us since our beginning in 1985 on the 'Killing Is My Business...' album but really came into his own on the 'Peace Sells... But Who's Buying?!' album cover in 1986.

"We were happy for his debut with us [in August 2010] on the 'American Carnage' tour in Cleveland and will likely be making more appearances at upcoming shows.

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SKINLAB: Making Of New Album 'Venomous' Part Two (Video)

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History.:1985: "Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!".

After considering several labels, Mustaine signed the band to Combat Records, a New York-based Independent record label that offered Megadeth the highest budget to record and tour. In 1985, Combat Records gave the band $8,000 to record and produce its debut album. After spending $4,000 of the budget on drugs, alcohol, and food, the band fired the original producer and finished the recording themselves.
 Despite its low fidelity sound, "Killing Is My Business... and Business Is Good!" was relatively successful in underground metal circles and attracted major-label interest. Music writer Joel McIver praised its "blistering technicality" and stated that the album "raised the bar for the whole thrash metal scene, with guitarists forced to perform even more accurately and powerfully".


Her debut feature film, "The Whistleblower", was released in 2011 and received nominations for six Genies at the 32nd Genie Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

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## Cafe de flore, A Dangerous Method lead the field for Genie Awards

##### The Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television unveiled nominations Tuesday for Canada's film awards, to be handed out on March 8 in Toronto.

Jean-Marc Vallée's Café de flore is the front-runner for the Genie Awards in March, having received the most nominations with 13, the Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television announced Tuesday.

David Cronenberg's A Dangerous Method was a close second with 11 nominations, and Philippe Falardeau's Monsieur Lazhar managed nine nominations.

Other multiple nominees included Steven Silver's South African drama The Bang Bang Club with seven nods, Ken Scott's Starbuck comedy and Larysa Kondracki's The Whistleblower with six each, and Nathan Morlando's Edwin Boyd with five nominations.

In another year where Quebec films dominated the Canadian film awards, Jean-Marc Vallée's return to his native French language with a drama about parallel love stories secured nominations for best film, best direction and in a host of craft categories.

Other Quebec films contending in the best film competition are Monsieur Lazhar, Canada's entry into the Oscar's best foreign language competition, and Starbuck, which this past weekend won the audience award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Quebec actors also feature in the acting categories, with Monsieur Lazhar's Fellag, Starbuck's Patrick Huard going up against Oliver Sherman's Garret Dillahunt, Michael Fassbender of A Dangerous Method and Scott Speedman, the star of Edwin Boyd, for best actor.

The best actress competition pits French actress Vanessa Paradis of Café de flore, Nuit #1's Catherine de Lean and Pascale Montpetit of The Girl in the White Coat against another two foreign actresses, Michelle Williams of Take This Waltz and Rachel Weisz of The Whistleblower.

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The Genie Awards will take place in Toronto on March 8.

A full list of Genie nominees is available at www.Geniewards.ca.

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His grandson, Clive Uhr, would become a noted radiologist and Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire.

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This article was published in Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 16, (MUP), 2002

Sir Clive Wentworth Uhr (1903-1974), radiologist and racing administrator, was born on New Year's Day 1903 in Brisbane, only child of Wentworth Charles Henry Uhr, a Queensland-born bank manager, and his wife Margaret, née Cleary, who came from Ireland.

Clive's grandfather was Wentworth D'Arcy Uhr.

He was educated at Gatton State High School and St John's College, University of Sydney (M.B., Ch.M., 1926).

Tall, rangy and active, he represented his college at cricket, shooting and tennis.

Back in Queensland, Uhr was appointed resident medical officer (1927), surgical registrar (1928) and radium registrar (1929) at (Royal) Brisbane Hospital.

Entering private practice in 1932 as a diagnostic radiologist, he continued at the hospital as assistant-radiologist (1932), assistant radium therapist (1933), and senior radiologist (1938).

On 24 August 1933 at St Stephen's Cathedral, Brisbane, he had married with Catholic rites Marie Josephine Barry.

On 31 December 1940 Uhr was appointed captain, Australian Army Medical Corps, Australian Imperial Force.

Next day he was promoted major and posted as radiologist to the 2nd/10th Australian General Hospital.

The unit was sent to Singapore in February and stationed at Malacca, Malaya, in support of the 22nd Brigade.

Following the Japanese invasion, the 2nd/10th withdrew to Singapore in mid-January 1942.

Uhr worked as anaesthetist as well as radiologist during the campaign.

Taken prisoner in February, he was in charge of all X-ray work for the A.I.F. at Changi from August, relying on fluoroscopy when supplies of film ran out.

He conducted a survey of men, including survivors from 'F' Force, diagnosed with cardiac beriberi, and established that most had no radiological evidence of damage to the heart.

In addition, he was given clinical duties.

Private Douglas McLaggan saw him as a good medical officer and 'a man you could talk to'.

He returned to Brisbane in September 1945 and transferred to the Reserve of Officers on 6 November.

After the war Uhr was always available to the men with whom he had served in Malaya.

Admiring their stubborn courage, he often used the phrase 'as hard to shift as the 22nd Brigade'.

Every Anzac Day he marched at the head of the Catholic War Veterans' Association, bringing together his passions for the 8th Division and the Catholic Church.

He was a member of the Medical Board of Queensland (1955-74) and the council of the Queensland Radium Institute (1955-74), and had been a founder (1939) of the local branch of the Australian and New Zealand Association of Radiology (Royal Australasian College of Radiologists).

Uhr was visiting radiologist at the Repatriation General Hospital, Greenslopes, and honorary radiologist at Mt Olivet Hospital for the Incurably Sick and Dying, Kangaroo Point.

After he retired from his medical practice in 1963, he was on the relieving list of Chermside and Redcliffe hospitals.

Elected to the committee of the Brisbane Amateur Turf Club in 1947, Uhr helped to persuade John Wren to sell Doomben racecourse to the B.A.T.C. in 1953.

As chairman (1954-74) he built up the Queensland winter racing carnival, particularly the Doomben Ten Thousand and the Doomben Cup.

He believed that the ordinary race-goer deserved the best: each race day 'the Doc' would walk from the Flat through the St Leger enclosure to the Paddock, open always to comments and suggestions from punters.

Although he preferred flat racing, he was the driving force behind the launch of the Albion Park Trotting Club which staged its first meeting in September 1968.

Uhr had a wide range of community interests.

President of Past Brothers Leagues Club and the Brisbane Rugby League, he was a member of the Rothmans National Sports Foundation.

He was president (1953-74) of the Xavier Society, a group of Catholic laymen who raised funds for Mt Olivet hospital and the Xavier Home for Crippled Children, and was involved with Duchesne and St Leo's colleges, University of Queensland.

He was concerned about justice and good government and was in great demand as a public speaker.

Interested in the work of B. A. Santamaria, in 1957 he unsuccessfully stood for the Legislative Assembly seat of Kedron, representing the newly formed Queensland Labor Party.

In 1960 Uhr helped to set up the Boys Town foundation which raised funds for a home at Beaudesert.

That year he was named Queensland's 'Father of the Year'.

He was appointed C.B.E. in 1961 and knighted in 1972.

Sir Clive was an intensely private man, passionately Australian, a steadfast friend and a devoted husband.

He died on 19 September 1974 at his Ascot home and was buried in Nudgee cemetery.

His wife, their four sons and two of their three daughters survived him.

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Uhr-Clarke bursary (Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Radiologists)

Uhr left the Northern Territory in late 1888 and for the next several years he lived in the more southern states, droving in New South Wales and operating hotels in Sydney and Adelaide. In 1894 he once more followed the Australian gold rush to Western Australia and the town of Coolgardie. Here he went into a butchering partnership with Charles Nunn Kidman, brother of the famous pastoralist, Sidney Kidman. Later he formed the company Butcher and Uhr, which was involved in expanding into pastoral development. Uhr went on expeditions to acquire land in the Laverton region and at Mount Margaret Uhr led a vigilante attack on the local Aboriginals. He was involved in the local horse racing industry and became embroiled in illegal betting syndicates.
 Uhr died at Coolgardie in 1907 and was given a lavish public funeral. He was married twice, firstly to Jane Hayes in 1872 and then to Essie Thompson in 1885. As he had not separated from Hayes, Uhr was in a situation of bigamy until 1887 when Hayes died.


He is the general editor of the "Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues," and editor of a forthcoming edition of the charters of King Henry I of England.

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Established in 2000, it comprises nearly 40 libraries.

Among these are major research libraries - including the Bodleian Library, which has been a library of legal deposit for almost 400 years - as well as libraries attached to faculties, departments and other institutions of the University.

The combined collections of the Bodleian Libraries number more than 11 million printed items, and include extensive special collections and manuscripts.

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## Professor Richard Sharpe (M.A., Ph.D., F.B.A., F.S.A., F.R.Hist.S)

Professor Sharpe's interests are broadly the history of medieval England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales.

He has a special concern with first-hand work on the primary sources of medieval history, including palaeography, diplomatic, and the editorial process, which is the core of his teaching in Oxford.

In the context of medieval archives and documents, this finds expression in research on charters of the eleventh and twelfth centuries.

In the context of books and libraries his long-term research project on medieval library catalogues has opened up a mass of information on what works were available to read in medieval England, at what periods and in what settings.

He takes a view of medieval bibliography that combines the textual and material aspects of books, and in his Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540 the biographical and antiquarian dimensions are not forgotten.

It was interest in what could be added to our knowledge and understanding of medieval sources from the work done by sixteenth- and seventeenth-century antiquaries that led him to investigate antiquarian correspondence, particularly that of Edward Lhwyd, which has opened up some fruitful lines of research.

Charters and letters have much in common, medieval manuscripts and early printed books are inseparable parts of the history of the works read down the centuries, and all of these uses of writing serve as a means to enhance modern understanding of the distant and not-so-distant past.

Books or documents in their material reality communicate with modern students on several levels, all worth our understanding.

A talk given during the exhibition of four engrossments of Magna Carta in the Divinity School on 11 December 2007.

Richard Sharpe explains that the seventeen surviving original manuscripts of the Magna Carta are engrossments, not copies: official documents from Royal Chancery bearing the ruler's seal.

Prof. Sharpe also reveals why so many examples of the Magna Carta survive.

• A version of a presentation about the late-eleventh-century Wadham Gospels, the oldest manuscript in Wadham College library, recorded in April 2014 (6mins 22secs).

• A presentation - Irish Manuscripts and the Complex Page, from The book: history and practice workshop which took place on March 12 2012 at the UCD Humanities Institute of Ireland.

• Le bibliothécaire médiéval - the text of a lecture delivered at the Sorbonne, 18 September 2003, under the auspices of Prof Jean-Philippe Genet and the organisation APICES

• The text of the Latin Sermon delivered in the University Church on Sunday, 19 January 2003.

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Richard Sharpe (born 1954) is Professor of Diplomatic at the University of Oxford, based at Wadham College. His interests are broadly the history of medieval England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. He has a special concern with first-hand work on the primary sources of medieval history, including the practices of palaeography, diplomatic and the editorial process, as well as the historical and legal contexts of medieval documents.


It was her New York stage debut and her first theater appearance in 13 years.

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###### Theater|The Leafy Tale of the Princess and the Queen

# The Leafy Tale of the Princess and the Queen

The Public Theater's outdoor production of "Into the Woods" features, from left, Denis O'Hare, Amy Adams and Donna Murphy.

BOTH Donna Murphy, who plays the Witch, and Amy Adams, the Baker's Wife, in the Public Theater's revival of "Into the Woods" — Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's musical based on stories from the Grimm brothers — have solid fairy-tale credentials.

Ms. Adams was Giselle in "Enchanted," the 2007 Disney movie about a cartoon princess who springs to real life in New York City.

Ms. Murphy, in "Tangled," the 2010 animated version of the Rapunzel story, was Mother Gothel, Rapunzel's abductor.

She also tried out for the role of the Witch in the 1987 premiere of "Into the Woods," losing out, after several callbacks, to Bernadette Peters.

But the director of the current show, Timothy Sheader, an Englishman, was only dimly aware of those connections.

He had to be reminded that Ms. Adams had some musical theater in her background and hired her mostly because she is a movie star with three Oscar nominations on her résumé.

He hired Ms. Murphy for the reason any sane person would: because she is a legendary Broadway performer and a Sondheim veteran (a Tony winner for her performance in "Passion") whom Ben Brantley of The New York Times once called a "superwoman."

Mr. Sheader is artistic director of the Regent's Park Open Air Theater in London, the rough equivalent of our Shakespeare in the Park.

This production of "Into the Woods," with Liam Steel as co-director, at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park through Aug. 25, is a version of what he staged in London in 2010: as far as anyone knows, that was the first time "Into the Woods" had played in real woods, or among real greenery, anyway.

In New York it takes place on a multilevel treehouse of a set and makes unusual physical demands of the cast members, who run up and down stairs and ladders.

Mr. Sheader said recently that though he knew Ms. Murphy's recordings, he had only seen her once, in last year's "People in the Picture," a musical in which she played both an old woman and her younger self and aged during the show from 30 to 70 and back again.

That performance sold Mr. Sheader, who said: "I was drawn to her physical choices.

I loved the way she probed and inhabited that character."

Amy Adams, left, and Donna Murphy at the Delacorte Theater, where they are appearing in the musical "Into the Woods."

"For the Witch," he added, "I wanted someone who could mine the depths of the part and show the journey of the character.

And of course, I wanted someone who could sing it."

As for Ms. Adams, who is making her New York stage debut, Mr. Sheader knew her almost entirely from her movie work and especially "The Fighter," in which she played Mark Wahlberg's tough-talking girlfriend.

"She's one of those American actresses that people in England are drawn to because of their style," he said.

"I like to do something different, and she felt like an exciting choice.

The thing about these outdoor productions is that the time commitment is short enough that sometimes you can get people who might not otherwise be available."

The short schedule also means not much time for rehearsal.

"Into the Woods" is a complicated show, with a large cast and several plots taking place at once, and the actors had just four weeks to get ready.

They worked in a rehearsal hall off Times Square and not long ago moved to the Delacorte, where they alternately sweltered and were pelted with rain.

At the end of the first day outside, Ms. Adams said, she "looked like someone who had gone on summer vacation and it went very, very wrong."

While still indoors they worked for close to an hour one morning on the important scene in Act II when several of the characters, including the Witch and the Baker's Wife, confront an angry giant (in the recorded voice of Glenn Close) demanding that Jack, who has killed her husband, be turned over to her.

Ms. Murphy, 53, is famously meticulous in her preparation, and wearing a long black dress and white overblouse, her long auburn hair perfectly parted in the middle, she radiated a force field of stillness and concentration.

When she sang the plaintive "Witch's Lament," about her inability to protect Rapunzel, she held nothing back.

Ms. Adams was wearing boots and baggy paratrooperlike pants, her hair pulled into a ponytail.

Though she is 37, she could have been mistaken for a stage-struck teenager.

At Mr. Sheader's suggestion she tried various ways of saying "Oh, no!" when coming upon the giant, her striking blue-green eyes seeming to widen on cue.

"They both work very differently," Mr. Sheader said.

"The Witch is a bit of an outsider's part, and Donna has done a lot of work on her own and a lot of work with Liam.

Amy has spirit and chutzpah and a desire to succeed, and if you think about it, that's the character as well.

She and the Baker are the two most human figures here."

Chip Zien, who is the Mysterious Man in this production, was the Baker in the 1987 premiere.

He has, in effect, become his own father in the show, and he has a long perspective on it.

Referring to Mr. Lapine, he said: "Back then James was having a child, and I had just had my kids, and the show seemed very much about being a parent: What do we do with our kids?

How do we raise them, can we protect them?"

He added: "It still is about that, of course, but now we have this young cast who were in the show in college or in theater school.

I see them asking questions that never even occurred to me.

Like several people he pointed out that in rehearsal Ms. Murphy never marks, or walks through a bit, to save her voice and her resources.

"It's all fully realized, fully energized.

She's very particular about every detail."

About Ms. Adams, he said: "She has a really charming voice, and she's filled with a spunky warmth.

I could be wrong, but my sense is that acting is easy for her.

Maybe she goes home at night and really worries, but I don't see it.

She doesn't stew a lot about how this is going to happen or whether it's going to work.

Let me put is this way: She's not Jewish."

is no news to anyone who saw her in "Enchanted."

She worked for years on the dinner theater circuit in Colorado and Minnesota before finally getting a few breaks in Hollywood.

But sitting with Ms. Murphy in a tiny cinder-block dressing room at the Delacorte one recent afternoon, she said that though she had been working for months with a private singing coach, there were times during rehearsal when she had felt she was in way over her head.

"It's been 13 years since I was on a proper stage," she said.

Mother Gothel, voiced by Donna Murphy, with Rapunzel in "Tangled."

"I've had no formal training, and I can't read music," she said, laughing.

Referring to Paul Gemignani, the music director, she added: "Paul will yell at me, 'Amy, it's in 12/8,' and I'm like, 'I have no idea what you're talking about.'

"She went on: "This is a huge challenge for me, and it's very humbling to see how talented everyone is and how hard they work.

There were moments when I thought, 'What have I got myself into?' "

Ms. Murphy said she had her own moments of doubt.

"For me the clock usually goes off two or three weeks into the process, and I ask myself, 'What the hell do you think you're doing?'

It happens no matter how well-suited I think I am for a particular role."

In the case of "Into the Woods," she went on, what happened was she remembered trying out for the part in 1987 and not getting it.

"It seems like a distant memory, but I remember exactly what I wore to the audition, and I remember James's direction."

"I was disappointed," she said, "but not surprised."

Ms. Adams remarked that being part of an ensemble as large as that in "Into the Woods" was a little like belonging to a big family.

"You guys all live in this world, and you're all so gifted," she said, her eyes welling.

I feel like you deserve a top-of-the-line performance.

I owe you all a huge debt of gratitude, and I don't take it lightly."

Ms. Murphy smiled and said, "You were very well prepared, and you bring an openness and a work ethic that is very conducive to all the work we're doing."

The difference in work ethic, she explained, is that Ms. Murphy works full out all the time.

"I would be on the floor needing to be revived if I did what she did," she said.

I tend to work from a much more touchy-feely place: Let me find it.

Sometimes I don't know what my performance is until it's happening, and then I see it and I feel it."

She went on to say that what appealed to her about acting onstage, instead of on screen, was the chance to do a performance from beginning to end.

"I wanted to take responsibility," she said.

"I wanted my performance not to be up to an editor."

She added: "I don't know how it will go over with an audience, but what I wanted to get out of this, I've already gotten.

I wanted to take on a challenge that seemed insurmountable.

I wanted to do something I didn't think I could do."

An article on July 29 about Amy Adams and Donna Murphy, who star in the Public Theater's current revival of "Into the Woods," referred incorrectly to a version of this production at Regent's Park Open Air Theater in London.

It was staged in the summer of 2010, not last summer.

Career.:2008–2012: Ingénue parts and expansion to dramatic roles.

She enrolled in an exotic dance class by the trainer Sheila Kelley to find her character's eroticism. Joe Morgenstern of "The Wall Street Journal" wrote that she is "as tough, tender, smart, and funny as she was ethereal and delightful in "Enchanted". What an actress, and what range!" She received Academy, Golden Globe, and BAFTA nominations for Best Supporting Actress; she lost the former two to Leo. She expressed a desire to play more dramatic roles in the future.
 The Disney musical "The Muppets" (2011) starring the eponymous puppets featured Adams and Jason Segel in live-action roles. "Entertainment Weekly"'s Lisa Schwarzbaum remarked that the role marked her return to her "comedian-sweetheart" persona. She also recorded seven songs for the film's soundtrack. The following year, Adams played the Baker's Wife in the Public Theater's revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical "Into the Woods", as part of the Shakespeare in the Park festival at the open-air Delacorte Theater.


It is the site of the creation of the first standardized futures contracts at the Chicago Board of Trade, which today is the largest and most diverse derivatives market globally, generating 20% of all volume in commodities and financial futures.

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Chicago's industry mix most closely matches the nation's, with no single industry employing more than 12% of the workforce

"View Up the Chicago River" by Lord is Good

Chicago has one of the world's largest and most diversified economies, with more than four million employees and generating an annual gross regional product (GRP) of over $609 billion.

The city is an efficient economic powerhouse, home to more than 400 major corporate headquarters, including 36 in the Fortune 500.

Among the most diverse economies in the nation, Chicago is a key player in every sector from risk management innovation to manufacturing to information technology to health services

#### Most Diversified Economy in the U.S.

Source: Moody's Analytics (2017), WBC (2018)

## Top Metro for New & Expanding Companies

Site Selection magazine has recognized the Chicago area as having more new or expanded corporate facilities than any other for four years in a row: 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016

Metro for corporate investment in the U.S.

The most distinctive aspect of Chicago's financial services community is also among its oldest.

The city's derivatives exchange community, which started with commodity futures trading at the Chicago Board of Trade in 1848, established the city as a global financial center.

To this day, even though the trading of derivatives is conducted on an ever-expanding international scale, Chicago arguably remains the geographic center of global derivatives trading – in terms of markets, scale and talent.

Chicago accounts for one fifth (20%) of the world's global derivatives trading market; 2X New York (10%) and matching all European exchanges combined (20%)

Chicago-based exchanges generated 4.9 billion in annual global derivatives trading volume with a notional value of more than one quadrillion in 2017

Chicago-based Options Clearing Corporation clears all US options contracts – 4.3 billion in 2017 (the third highest volume on record)

Chicago futures and options exchanges collectively dominate exchange-based derivatives trading, with more than half of exchange-based derivatives trading in North America

Source: World Bank (2016), Moody's (2016)

Chicago (/ʃɪˈkɑːɡoʊ/ (listen), locally also /ʃɪˈkɔːɡoʊ/), officially the City of Chicago, is the most populous city in Illinois, as well as the third most populous city in the United States. With an estimated population of 2,705,994 (2018), it is the most populous city in the Midwest. Chicago is the principal city of the Chicago metropolitan area, often referred to as Chicagoland, and the county seat of Cook County, the second most populous county in the United States. The metropolitan area, at nearly 10 million people, is the third-largest in the United States.
 Located on the shores of freshwater Lake Michigan, Chicago was incorporated as a city in 1837 near a portage between the Great Lakes and the Mississippi River watershed and grew rapidly in the mid-19th century. After the Great Chicago Fire of 1871, which destroyed several square miles and left more than 100,000 homeless, the city made a concerted effort to rebuild. The construction boom accelerated population growth throughout the following decades, and by 1900 Chicago was the fifth largest city in the world. Chicago made noted contributions to urban planning and zoning standards, including new construction styles (including the Chicago School of architecture), the development of the City Beautiful Movement, and the steel-framed skyscraper. Chicago is an international hub for finance, culture, commerce, industry, technology, telecommunications, and transportation.


The exterior panels of the shell were replaced, which required a laser scan of the shell and fabrication of 673 separate panels in 93 different shapes.

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# Hatch Shell Restoration Project Set to Wrap Up Next Month

The $2.4 million restoration project entailing the replacement of the exterior panels on the dome of the Hatch Memorial Shell on the Charles River Esplanade is expected to wrap up in early June, according to Department of Conservation and Recreation Commissioner Leo Roy.

Before this work began, however, two laser scans of the dome were conducted to pinpoint the dome's imperfections while Folan Waterproofing & Construction Co. of South Easton was tasked with cleaning and waterproofing the band shell.

BPDL Precast Concrete – a company based in Quebec, Canada, and one of only two firms in North America that handles this type of specialized work – then used the laser renderings to craft a total of 673 panels in 91 different shapes from the composite material terrazzo that fit together to completely encase the dome.

Roy likens the process to completing a jigsaw puzzle and said as of last Thursday, May 17, 483 pieces had been installed.

This is no easy task, either, considering each weighs between 400 and 150 pounds while the panels on top tip the scales at 500 pounds a piece.

When the dome was last restored in 1989, Roy said the technology to accurately estimate the size of each panel didn't exist, so the pieces fit together more loosely, allowing water to seep into the dome and gradually damage the structure's interior.

"The purpose of this project is to protect it, both structurally and aesthetically," he said, adding that interior restoration of the dome will follow the panel-replacement project.

"We really want to be good stewards of this historic landmark."

The granite shell that stands on the site today dates back to 1940 and is the structure's third incarnation.

It was designed by venerable Boston architect Richard J. Shaw and underwritten by Maria Hatch, who died in 1926 and bequeathed a $300,000 gift in her will to build a memorial to her brother, Edward A. Hatch.

Edward Hatch, who died in 1889, served as a general in the Union Army during the Civil War before becoming the first commander of the 9th U.S. Cavalry Regiment, a Buffalo soldier regiment with African-American troops commanded by white officers.

.In 1928, the original, wooden shell was erected on the site as a temporary venue for the Boston Pops, and an inaugural concert was held there July 4, 1929.

A second, more permanent shell was built of metal at the location in 1934, but it was irreparably damaged in the 1938 New England hurricane.

Roy said the project is particularly timely now not only because May is Preservation Month in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, but also since this year marks the 125th anniversary of DCR, which manages 3,000 properties statewide.

"This is a good example of DCR's work saving our cultural and historic resources," Roy said.

"There's nothing better than to be here on a warm summer evening when the sun sets over the Charles while enjoying symphonic music.

Bostonian Howard Brickman, a master craftsman specializing in wood floors, re - created the intricate interior paneling of the shell by hand.
 An 8-foot (2.4 m) bronze statue of George S. Patton, by James Earle Fraser, commemorates the general's June 7, 1945 address at the site before a crowd of 20,000 persons.
 Uses of the Hatch Shell include concerts, movie showings and speeches, and as a meeting place for large events, such as AIDS Walk Boston and the Larry Kessler 5K Run. The grass pavilion is used for picnics, casual sports and sunbathing, in a manner typical of urban parks.
 The Hatch Shell underwent a $2.4 million renovation in 2018, the first since 1989.