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The New York Times Book Review
My Song: A Memoir
by Harry Belafonte, Michael ShnayersonBelafonte grew up, poverty-ridden,
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"In My Song, a brave and spellbinding memoir written with Vanity Fair contributing editor Michael Shnayerson, Belafonte tells a sweeping story . . . riveting . . . In these days of national and global uncertainty, with the numbers of poor steadily rising, there are lessons aplenty in the life of Harry Belafonte, as told in this surprising and revelatory book." —Wil Haygood, Washington Post
" . . . engrossing autobiographical account of a life devoted in equal parts to entertainment and social causes. My Song is rich with vivid scenes of Belafonte working as an adviser, mediator, fundraiser and implementer with such players as John and Robert Kennedy and King." —Tom Nolan, San Francisco Chronicle
"Here is a gorgeous account of the large life of a Harlem boy . . . Scenes of extravagant waste, scenes of righteous anger—rich contradictions abound—with little attempt to explain them away, a mark of the honest autobiographer." —Garrison Keillor, New York Times Book Review
"Absorbing . . ." —Joshua Jelly-Schapiro, New York
"To read Harry Belafonte's new memoir, My Song, is to discover a man who has packed enough life for 10 people into 84 years." —"Morning Edition," NPR
"Somewhere amid the accounts of when he became the first artist to sell a million copies of an album, the first black leading actor to romance a white leading actress in a major Hollywood film, and the man who was asked to help pick out the clothes that Martin Luther King Jr. would be buried in, you realize just how extraordinary Harry Belafonte's life has been. If Belafonte had simply pursued one strand of that life - the immensely popular singer, the Tony Award-winning actor, the powerful political and social activist - it would have made fascinating material for a book. That he managed to cram all three into his 84 years makes My Song, his captivating memoir written with Michael Shnayerson, not only a sometimes exhausting chronicle of Belafonte's own story but an intriguing look at US history from the late '40s to the present. . . . One of the book's triumphs involves the way Belafonte and Shnayerson manage to capture Belafonte's distinctive voice . . . You can almost hear him narrate the story in his stately rasp." —Sarah Rodman, The Boston Globe
"Bracingly opinionated autobiography from an American original, still provocative in his ninth decade." —Kirkus (starred)
From the Hardcover edition.
The noted entertainer and activist looks back over his tumultuous life.
Being the first singer to sell 1 million copies of an album (Calypsoin 1956) and writing his own ticket at the otherwise segregated Riviera in Las Vegas did little to assuage Belafonte's fury at the discrimination he had experienced before he made it big. Nor had the emotional scars healed from a poverty-stricken childhood with a severely depressed, impossible-to-please mother, he acknowledges in this forthright memoir, ably co-authored by veteran reporter Shnayerson (Coal River,2008, etc.).Not until he met Martin Luther King Jr. in 1956 did Belafonte find a way to channel his rage into the larger struggle for racial justice. He would become as well known for his unswerving commitment to civil rights as for his records and concerts. He planned strategy with King; funded the young rebels at the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Council; acted as a liaison to the hesitant Kennedy administration; and recruited the celebrity-studded lineup for the March on Washington. Though never as big a movie star as his friend Sidney Poitier, about whom he writes with equal parts affection and competitiveness, Belafonte also had some successes in film, most notably opposite Dorothy Dandridge inCarmen Jones(1954) and in Robert Altman'sKansas City(1996). He recounts these highlights, as well as three marriages, four kids, a half-century in Freudian analysis, and lots more, with frankness and bite. He has mellowed not at all in old age, calling George Bush a terrorist in 2006 and judging President Obama to be insufficiently compassionate and committed to the poor. Yet Belafonte's bluntness and vast ego aren't too hard to take, since they are so often applied to the service of others, not just in the '50s and '60s but into the '80s with the "We Are the World" video for African famine relief and currently in his Gathering for Justice project to train minority youths in nonviolent activism.
Bracingly opinionated autobiography from an American original, still provocative in his ninth decade.
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The phone rang late in the evening in my New York apartment. It was the night of August 4, 1964. A night of grief and anger for all of us in the civil rights movement, but especially those in Mississippi. "We've got a crisis on our hands down here," the young man on the line said. "We need help."
At the start of that fateful summer, hundreds of volunteers, most of them students, many of them white, all of them knowing how dangerous the work would be, had come down from northern universities to register black voters and support rural blacks in pursuit of their civil rights. They were fanning out along the front lines of a civil rights war, unarmed in a state of seething segregationists.
Mississippi's police stood ready at the slightest pretext to beat them bloody and throw them in jail. The Ku Klux Klan might well do worse. That day, we all learned just how much worse. The bodies of three volunteers, missing since June 21, had been found in a shallow grave near Philadelphia, Mississippi. Michael Schwerner, James Chaney, and Andrew Goodman— two of them white, one black— had been arrested on an alleged traffic violation, briefl y jailed, then allowed to drive off, after dark, into a KKK ambush. All three had been beaten, then shot. Chaney, the black volunteer, had been tortured and mutilated.
I'd helped raise a lot of the money to launch Mississippi Freedom Summer. I'd called all the top entertainers I knew— Frank Sinatra, Lena Horne, Henry Fonda, Marlon Brando, Joan Baez, the Kingston Trio, Dick Gregory, and more— to ask that they give money directly or participate in benefit concerts. That money bought a lot of gas and cars, housing and food. But now more was needed. A lot more.
The original plan had called for students to do two-week shifts, then go home and be replaced by others. With the ominous disappearance of Schwerner, Chaney, and Goodman, every shift had insisted on staying.
Now that the bodies had been found, all those volunteers voted to stay not just through summer, but into the fall as well. "It's good they're staying," explained Jim Forman, the young man who called me that night. Jim was the de facto head of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), one of several civil rights groups down there. "Because if they leave now, or even at the end of August, the Klan will say it intimidated them into going, and the press will play it that way. And if they all stay, we can get thousands of more voters registered. The problem is we don't have the resources to keep them all here."
"What do you need?" I asked.
"At least fifty thousand dollars."
I told him I'd get it, one way or the other. "How soon do you need it?"
"We're going to burn through the rest of our budget in seventy-two hours."
Before he rang off, Forman told me one other thing. "This could get really ugly," he said quietly. "I'm hearing a lot of people say enough is enough, the hell with nonviolence. They're taking up guns. I'm worried they're going to take matters into their own hands."
I had to think hard about where that money might come from, and how I might get it to Greenwood, Mississippi. I could tap my own savings for the whole $50,000— I'd written a check to SNCC for an amount not much smaller than that in its early days to help establish it, and others since then. For me it was "anything goes," but I owed it to my family to keep us fi nancially safe. Paul Robeson, the extraordinary actor, singer, and activist whose path I'd tried to follow my whole adult life, had given so much money to social causes that he'd left himself vulnerable to his enemies, chief among them the federal government, a formidable force led by J. Edgar Hoover and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, when he was blacklisted as a communist in the late 1940s. With Senator Joseph McCarthy riding shotgun, the federal government had cowed Carnegie Hall and other American venues into not hiring him, then seized his passport so that he couldn't earn a living performing abroad. Eventually Paul ran through his savings and slid into a deep place of sadness. I never forgot that. Somehow, I'd have to raise most of this money from others. In two days, maybe three. Then there was the matter of how that money would get to Mississippi. I couldn't just wire it and have a black civil rights activist go to the local Western Union offi ce to ask for his $50,000, please. He'd be dead before he drove a mile away. So would a white college volunteer. As for banks, those fi ne institutions owned and operated by Mississippi's white power elite? No way.
The money would have to be brought down in cash. And unless I could come up with some brighter idea, I'd have to take it down myself.
My wife, Julie, started pulling together a New York fundraiser at our West End Avenue apartment. I fl ew to Chicago. Irv Kupcinet, as powerful a columnist in his city as Walter Winchell was in New York, gathered dozens of guests at his home on a day or two's notice. White guests, bearing checkbooks. Why did I, as a black performer, have such sway with Irv and his friends? Our friendship traced back to my clubcircuit days as a young troubadour in the early fi fties, but our personal history was just one part of it. Without quite knowing how I did it, I had some power to reach a hand across the racial divide. That, I knew, had as much to do with the moment as with me. Galvanized by the shocking news of the volunteers' murders, Irv's guests thrust cash and checks at me— $35,000 worth— as if I was the personal emissary of the civil rights movement. Which in a way, in that place and on that
evening, I was. After making a trip to Montreal, I had another $20,000.
When I got back to New York, Julie and I took in $15,000 more from our own apartment fundraiser. Time was running out: I'd hoped to raise $100,000, but $70,000 would have to do. I felt pretty good about that sum of money. I felt even better now that I had a sidekick for the trip: my pal from our days together as struggling actors in Harlem, Sidney Poitier.
Sidney and I were like brothers. Born within eight days of each other, we shared the same West Indian heritage, and the same burning desire to break out of grinding poverty. Incredibly, both of us had achieved our dreams as entertainers. Sidney was the top black actor in Hollywood. I'd found my first successes as a singer, but had gone on to my own share of Broadway and Hollywood triumphs. We were, to put it simply, the two top black male entertainers in the world. Like
brothers, we were also fiercely competitive, and had our differences, both political and personal. For starters, Sidney was a lot more cautious than I was. "What kind of protection are you going to have?" he asked warily when I asked him to come.
"I talked to Bobby about it," I said. Robert F. Kennedy was still serving, after his brother's assassination, as U.S. Attorney General under President Johnson. He'd directed me to Burke Marshall, head of the Justice Department's civil rights division. Both understood the risk I was taking. In Mississippi's vicious climate, the chances of a Klansman taking a potshot at me were actually pretty high. Knocking off that rich Negro singer from New York who thought he knew what was best for the South? Ten points! Marshall heard me out on the phone, and took down my itinerary. I conveyed all this to Sidney, maybe presuming a bit more from my conversation with Marshall than I should have. "Marshall's on it," I told him. "That means federal security every step of the way."
"Every step of the way," Sidney echoed.
"Right," I said. "Besides, it'll be harder for them to knock off two black stars than one. Strength in numbers, man."
"Okay," Sidney said grimly. "But after this, Harry?"
"Never call me again."
I knew Sidney well enough to know he meant it— at least at that moment. Of course I chose to view his fury as a joke and laughed it off, but I laughed alone. Unaccompanied, and not making much conversation, the two of us boarded a plane in Newark, New Jersey, bound for Jackson, Mississippi. I'd deposited the fundraiser checks and replaced them with cash, so we had $70,000 in small bills stuffed into a black doctor's bag. In that long- ago time, no one asked us what we were carrying. A flight attendant just waved us aboard.
Our flight to Jackson was the evening's last one into the main airport. We found Jim Forman and two other SNCC volunteers waiting
for us, but otherwise the terminal sat virtually deserted. The only sign of local authority we saw was a black maintenance man pushing a broom. Sidney shot me an angry glance. "That's our federal security?" "Probably an FBI agent in disguise," I told him. Sidney didn't so much as chuckle.
The volunteers led us out into the heavy, humid Mississippi night and over to a private strip beside the airport where a little Cessna was waiting. The pilot, who was white, greeted us most soberly, with a deep southern accent. As we piled in, I stole another look at him. Was he a Klansman, leading us into a trap? He sure seemed to fit the role.
My fears deepened as the tiny plane fl ew toward Greenwood. It was a bumpy ride. The pilot seemed unconcerned. We took every pitch of the plane as the beginning of the end.
Finally we landed on a dirt runway beside a shack that constituted Greenwood's airport. The pilot taxied past it, and then back, let us out, and took off immediately. What did he know that we didn't? I looked around, struck as much by the darkness as by the heat. I'd never seen a night as black as this. A poem called "The Creation," by James Weldon Johnson, came back to me.
. . . far as the eye of God could see
Darkness covered everything,
Blacker than a hundred midnights
Down in a cypress swamp.
Two more SNCC volunteers were waiting for us, with two cars, to take us into town. Sidney and I slid into the back of one, with Jim Forman in the passenger seat and a young SNCCer named Willie Blue in the driver's seat; the rest got into the second car. Both cars had been sanded to a dull fi nish so they wouldn't shine at night. A good precaution, but not good enough: As Willie and the other driver started their engines, a long row of headlights flashed on at the far end of the dark airfield. "That must be the federal agents," I said to Sidney. But we could see that the pairs of headlights were at different heights, and they blazed with differing degrees of brightness. Willie Blue dashed my hopes. "Agents, my ass," he muttered. "That's the Klan."
Instead of driving away from the row of headlights, in the direction of the main road to town, Willie and the other driver started moving at full speed toward them. We got close enough to see the dim outlines of three or four old pickup trucks. Then, as if at some prearranged signal, Willie and the other driver veered off to the side, taking a rough, alternative route to the road that led to town. The pickups fell in line behind us.
"Why aren't you driving faster?" I shouted. Willie was keeping right to the forty-mile-an-hour speed limit. "Faster, man!"
"No," Willie shouted back. "That's exactly what they want us to do.
They got a state trooper up there waiting in his car with the headlights off, ready to arrest us for speeding. He takes us to the station, lets us out in an hour, and even more of the Klan be waiting for us. That's how they work. That's how those boys got killed."
From behind us, the fi rst pickup truck sped up and started to pass us. Through the rear window, we could see it had a two-by- four across its grille— a makeshift battering ram— and no license plate. Willie swerved into the middle of the two- lane road to keep the pickup from pulling alongside. Now the pickup started ramming the back of our car. "We can't let him pull up beside us," Willie shouted. "They'll shoot."
Willie switched on his walkie-talkie and radioed the SNCC office in Greenwood. From the other walkie- talkie I heard a crackling voice: "We're on our way."
The pickup truck kept ramming our car, but Willie stayed doggedly to the center of the road, edging left every time the truck tried to pull up. Finally, after two or three terrifying minutes that seemed like forever, I looked down the road to see a convoy of cars coming toward us from Greenwood. "That's them," Willie said. The SNCC brigade to the rescue. My heart was still pounding, but I started to breathe again.
As the convoy approached, the pickup trucks slowed, and their headlights retreated. That was when we heard the shots, a dozen or more. Whether the Klansmen were fi ring at us or shooting up in the air, we couldn't tell. No one was hit, and no bullets pierced our cars. When we turned off the main road, secure now among the SNCC fleet, we looked back to see the pickups rolling off down the main road, with more gunfire as they went.
The convoy led us into Greenwood, and beyond, to an Elks hall, where hundreds of volunteers were gathered. They had spent the day in heated debate, tense and tired, over what their next moves should be. Most of their options depended on us. When Sidney and I walked in, screams of joy went up from the crowd. Sidney and I had heard a lot of applause in our day, but never anything like those cheers. After weeks of lonely, scary fieldwork, these volunteers were wrung out and in despair. To have two of the biggest black stars in the world walk in to show solidarity with them— that meant a lot to them, and to us.
The crowd took up a freedom song, and then another— the spirituals that had given these brave volunteers comfort and encouragement day after day. Finally Sidney spoke. "I am thirty- seven years old," he told the crowd. "I have been a lonely man all my life . . . because I have not found love . . . but this room is overflowing with it." Then Sidney turned to me. I let a pause fall over the room, then sang out, "Day- o . . ." The crowd picked it up with a roar. The "Banana Boat Song" was my musical signature, but more than that, it was a cry from the heart of poor workers, a cry of weariness mingled with hope, both
of which those volunteers felt profoundly that night. "Day- o, Day- o / Daylight come an' me wan' go home" had also been turned into a civil rights anthem— "Freedom, freedom, freedom come an' it won't be long." When the crowd had sung both versions, I held up the black satchel I'd brought, upturned it on the table in front of me, and let the bundles of cash cascade out, to delirious shouts.
As Sidney had said, we felt a lot of love in that barn. Outside it, though, Ku Klux Klanners sat in idling cars; we could hardly keep them out of Greenwood. That day planes had fl own overhead, dropping KKK leaflets that urged Mississippians not to let the niggers steal their rights. Late that night, after a dinner of chicken and spareribs, Sidney and I were escorted to the house where we were to sleep, with armed guards patrolling outside. Our bedroom had one double bed— not too big a double bed, either— shoved up against a wall under a window. Sidney blanched.
"Look, I'll take the inside, okay?" I told him, meaning the side by the wall. I meant it as a concession: I'd be the one scrunched in by my snoring bedmate.
Sidney gave me a suspicious look. "Yeah, but if someone sticks a gun through that window and shoots, I'll be more apt to get hit."
He was only half joking.
"Okay, okay, I'll take the outside," I said.
Sidney thought about that. If I was willing to take the outside, maybe it was the better side after all. "No, I'll take the outside," he
said. "If you do get shot, I'd hate to have to climb over your dead ass to get to the door."
In bed with the light out, we talked for a while. I told Sidney some of my ghost stories. Finally I fell into a ragged sleep, only to be awakened, in the pitch darkness, by a strange rasping sound. I reached over to nudge Sidney awake. The other side of the bed was empty. The rasping sound was louder. "Sidney?"
"Yes," he rasped.
"What the fuck are you doing?"
"Push-ups," Sidney said. "I can't sleep. And when those motherfuckers come for us, I want to be sure I'm ready."
Often in the days after I got home to my wife and children, I asked myself why I had taken on the civil rights movement as my personal crusade. I knew the reason I'd gotten involved in general—any black American with a pulse and a conscience had done that by the summer of 1964, at least to the extent of writing the occasional check. A lot of white Americans had, too. All of us sensed this was a point at which history simply had to turn. We couldn't tolerate more lynchings and beatings. We couldn't abide more "whites-only" signs on the hotels and restaurants and gas stations and water fountains and bus stations of the segregated South. We couldn't let black Americans be treated as slaves in all but name anymore. This we knew. But why did I feel so personally offended, sitting in my twenty-one-room apartment on West End Avenue, when I saw news pictures of student protesters beaten by truncheon- wielding state police and bitten by police attack dogs? What deep wellspring of anger did those images bring up, and why had I felt so angry, for so long, about so many other related issues of freedom, and democracy, and equality, as if the perpetrators of these grave indignities— from the president to the FBI to the military to the man in the street— had set out to do me wrong? And why, when I also cared so much about making a success of myself as an actor and singer, had I jeopardized—in some ways damaged—a career trajectory that had made me, at thirty, the world's first so-called black matinee idol?
My mother had a lot to do with it. To a lesser degree my father, but he was in there. I also knew that from childhood, I'd occupied a lonely place, not just between West Indian and American culture, but between black and white. And in both the actual worlds I'd balanced between as a kid— Kingston and Harlem— I was as poor as poor could be. I was definitely angry about that.
Long after I'd immersed myself in the civil rights movement, I would still be trying to understand that anger and make it melt away.
With Martin Luther King, Jr., to guide me, I would embrace nonviolence—not just as an organizing tactic, but as a way of life. Half a century of Freudian analysis would help, too. But as I began to set down the story of my life, I would still be piecing the parts together. I know more now than when I started this book. I see the little boy I was, in all his complexities, angry and hurt, almost always alone. Yet why this little boy, among all others, should use his anger to push himself up, make a name for himself, and then make it his mission to smash racial barriers and injustice with such grim determination, I'm not sure I can say.
Perhaps, in the end, where your anger comes from is less important than what you do with it.
From the Hardcover edition.
Meet the Author
Harry Belafonte's 1956 album Calypso made him the first artist in history to sell more than one million LPs. He has won both a Tony Award and an Emmy, and he was awarded the National Medal of Arts by President Clinton. He has served as a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and is the recipient of Kennedy Center Honors for excellence in the performing arts. He currently resides in New York City with his wife, Pamela.
Michael Shnayerson, a longtime contributing editor to Vanity Fair, is the author of Irwin Shaw; The Car That Could; The Killers Within, coauthored with Mark J. Plotkin, and Coal River, which recounted the efforts of Appalachian lawyers and grassroots groups to stop the devastating practice of mountaintop coal removal in southern West Virginia. Shnayerson's passion for those environmental activists was one reason Harry Belafonte chose him to collaborate on his autobiography. Shnayerson lives in Bridgehampton, New York, with his daughter, Jenna.
From the Hardcover edition.
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The book was very easy to read and unlike many other autobiographies that I've read this one was a real page turner.
J. Morales, Bx, NY
I admit I was a fan, and his signature songs some of my favorites. But the background of an era I was too young to appreciate is so impressive and so moving, it should make this book a "must have" on everyone's shelf. Oh it's fun to read the little asides of his association with well known people, but that this octogenarian is still here to give us a lesson in social justice is precious. Please appreciate this man and his life while we still have him around. This should be a best seller for content and history. Oh and yes...he's still a heartthrob who is as comfortable with the Muppets as he is with Steven Colbert. Google it !
Had no idea Mr. Belefonte was so politically active - his contributions to our society go beyond a beautiful voice and face - he has a beautiful spirit.
An excellent walk down the path that led to the Harry Belafonte everyone loves but know very little about. A very compelling and interesting read..
If you are interested in Black History and Martin Luther King, then this is the book for you.
Whether you are a writer or singer, head to song writing result one! Writers: swap tips and share ORIGINAL lyrics. Singers can get vpeople to write lyrics for them to sing. So go there now!
More to the man than entertainment ! I really enjoyed his journey ,
*FEMALE SINGERS*: he's never alone, always with her, goin aroouund an around, in his heart.(MALE SINGER): I'm never alone, always with them as they daaance around, in my heart.ALL THREE: Never alone, always without, *goin*(dancin) arooouuund and aroouund in my heart.
What is love? When your hope is gone. What is love? When your faith has run out. What is love? When you have already given up. (CHORUS) Love is what gets us by. If we just understand. We know it won't be, won't be like the stories, but thats how it should be, baby. But we can't change life. OPINION OF THE SONG SO FAR AT RES THREE
Hi commnt at res two if you like my short song and i might write more.................................................................................
I think the words in my head. But something else comes instead. I tried to hard to forgive you. But it is hard to. I hated all those days. We just ran out of ways. Because of those nights. We had a lot of fights. I just couldnt make it right.
REFRAIN: Why can't I keep you? I know you feel it too. I love the sound of your voice. But i don't have a chocie. But i love you.
(I am twelve years old now and i wrote this song when i was eleven. I just found it and thought i should get peoples opinion on it. Please give me ur honest opinion on what u think of this song at the second result.if u dont like it please tell me and if u want to u can say y u dont like it i wont b offended. Im not going to worry about the grammer becuase i have to go soon and i want o get this done before hand. Thanks for reading!) <br> <br> I look at myself and feel like no one cares. Nobody would even know if i leave. So why do i stay? My friends keep telling me it will get better. They say there is a plan for me. They say rememer these words and you will go far! <br> (Chorus) Look at the bright side and say things will be fine. Say goodbye to the bad and say hello to the good. Look at the bright side and say things will be fine. I promise you. We promise you things will b fine. <br> Another night going to bed crying. Another night with another fight i cant seem to end. Why cant they just understand? Why wont they understand? I call up my friend to get someone i trust. I explained what happened and told her why i was cryin'. She said. So you forgot what i said. <br> (chorus) Look at the bright side and say things will be fine. Say goodbye to the bad and say hello to the good. Look at the bright side and say things will b fine. I promise you. We promise u things will be fine. <br> I said thanks for the help. It really means a lot. That next day i started to think. I decided to start brand new. The world may push me down but it cant keep me from getting right back up. (Chorus) and i will look at the bright side and say things will b fine. Say goodbye to the past and say hello to the good. I will look at the bright side and say things will be fine. They promised me.. i promise you things will b fine. ( please put comments in the next result. Thanks so much for reading this!)
Thank you Mr B for sharing your story ,I k new he was down with Dr King but I didn't know how deeply he was involved,thank you for your efforts all over the world. Where are the leaders for my childrens generation ?


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By MEGAN GOLDSCHMIDT
U.S. sex offenders convicted of crimes against children are currently not limited on where they can travel internationally, but soon that may be changing.
A new amendment to Megan's Law that restricts the passports of U.S. citizens convicted of sex crimes against children was unanimously approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee on Aug. 1.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-Robbinsville) wrote the amendment which is now part of the U.S. State Department authorization bill H.R. 2848. The bill is expected to be on the House floor in September.
Jeff Sagnip, Public Policy Director for Smith, said that since the amendment is attached to that specific bill, the likelihood of it being approved increases.
The amendment grants the Secretary of State discretion to limit the valid duration of passports for convicted sex offenders listed on the National Sex Offender Registry, or to revoke the passport of an individual convicted by a court of a sex offense in a foreign country.
Sagnip said that the Secretary of State and State Department would also be monitoring potential travel of sex offenders who obtain a new passport.
"We know that Thailand is a high area for sex trafficking. So if a registered sex offender obtained a passport and was planning a trip there, the department would look into it and be monitoring that person. If they see that person as a risk on that trip, they could act," Sagnip said.
According to Smith, authorizing the State Department to restrict passports of registered sex offenders has the ability to deter and protect.
"Predators who have been convicted for sexually exploiting children have used long-term passports to evade return to the United States and have moved to a third country where they continue to exploit and abuse children. By requiring child sex offenders to renew their passports, more regularly, we can curtail the current 10-year window of unchecked travel and offer greater protection for vulnerable women and children around the world," Smith said.
The amendment is linked with Megan's Law, legislature named for Megan Kanka, a 7-year-old from Smith's district in Hamilton who was kidnapped, raped, and brutally murdered in 1994. Her assailant was a convicted, repeat sex offender living across the street, unbeknownst to families in the neighborhood. The law requires public notification of convicted sex offenders living in the community. Smith supported a federal Megan's Law which became law in 1996.
"The amount of travel by known predators is staggering," said Smith, who has worked for years with the Kanka family to promote legislation that would protect children from sex offenders, "A report released by the Government Accountability Office found that nearly 4,500 registered sex offenders apply for U.S. passports each year. Since a passport is valid up to 10 years, some offenders can remain unwatched for years."
Smith wrote similar legislation in 2010 called The International Megan's Law. The bill established a model for international law enforcement notifications when convicted child sex offenders pose a danger to children in a destination country. The bill passed the House in 2010, but the Senate failed to act on the bill.
See Also:
- (08/25/2008) H.R. 5722: International Megan's Law of 2008
- (09/05/2008) Smith gets GOP to back international Megan's Law
- (07/28/2010) House OKs Rep. Smith's 'International Megan's Law'


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text: Surprise, England: The Racist Was You All Along!Barry Petchesky6/25/12 4:00pmFiled to: Euro 2012twitterEnglandracistsSoccerAshley ColeAshley YoungNewsGettypic8EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalinkBoy, we all got psyched for some old-fashioned Eastern European racism, didn't we? "Stadiums of Hate," and Sol Campbell warning about twin black-hating boogeymen Andrzej and Andriy, and even England players leaving their families at home. Well, perhaps there's a lesson here, because not only did English fans and players not meet with any racism in Ukraine, but UK police are now investigating racial abuse and threats from English fans at home.It's the usual crap on Twitter, Ashley Cole and Ashley Young being called "nigger" or "monkey" after each missed penalties in the shootout with Italy yesterday. No one should be shocked, because this is how some people react to black athletes. But in the UK, there are consequences. A Welsh student just spent two months in jail for racial abuse of Fabrice Muamba. So the Metropolitan Police, in response to public outcry, have announced a probe of this latest round of stupid people acting stupid. (This is 2012. People are racist on Twitter. Other people retweet those racist people, CCing @metpoliceuk. If you must call black athletes racial epithets, do it on Google+ where no one will see it.)


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Transformers: Robots in Disguise Episode Guide
Episode 35: The Mystery of Ultra Magnus Original U.S. air date: March 30, 2002 Written by: Tom Wyner
Megatron reviews archival footage of the newest Autobot arrival with Sky-Byte and the Decepticons. Material from "Ultra Magnus", "Ultra Magnus: Forced Fusion!" and "The Two Faces of Ultra Magnus" are discussed. In the end, Megatron announces that their primary target should be the Autobot Matrix of Leadership, which Optimus Prime possesses and Ultra Magnus covets.
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The third of the "recap" episodes, the other two being "Hope for the Future" and "Lessons From the Past". This one is uncomfortably out-of-place, however, since Megatron had already been "upgraded" to Galvatron several episodes earlier.
It turns out that's because this episode was created completely for American audiences. The original Japanese episode in this place, "Gershark's Blues" (Sky-Byte was the American name for Gershark), was a thorough recap of events between "The Two Faces of Ultra Magnus" and "The Human Element" told from the Predacons' point of view -- without showing Megatron (Gigatron) or Galvatron (Devil Gigatron) at all.
In yet another title typo ("Ultra Magnus: Forced Fushion!", "The Hunt for Black Pyramid"), this one was titled on-screen as "Mystery of the Ultra Magnus". Saban really wasn't as careful with this series as they should have been.
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What is so unusual about P.T. Barnum's obituary?
What is most interesting about the obituary of the famous showman P.T. Barnum is that he got to read it. Here's how the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Web site recounts the story:
Several weeks before he died in his sleep, on April 7, 1891, Barnum read his own obituary: The New York Sun newspaper, responding to Barnum's comment that the press says nice things about people after they die, ran his obituary on the front page with the headline, "Great And Only Barnum—He Wanted To Read His Obituary—Here It Is."
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Wednesday, November 24, 2010
☞ ARCHITECTURE: The Original Ringgold Museum
The proposed Faith Ringgold's Children Museum at 155th Street and St. Nicholas Place that will break ground at the end of the year now has a modernist, stacked-block design to it but the building originally went for a contextual direction. We found an early rendering that took the terracotta elements of the existing ornate garage along with Manhattanville's 125th Street Viaduct's iconic arches to form the base of museum and the affordable housing up top. The idea is quite interesting but the early computer drawings are not realistic enough to give a sense of what the structure would actually look like (that's supposed to be all glass on each level). Click on the top image to enlarge. For more details, go to the following site for additional sketches: LINK. See our past post on Harlem's new children's museum and the final design selected: LINK
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So.. now Harlem can look like the rest of Manhattan- Glass, no character? Just adding characteristics of the bridge and building facade to slabs of glass does not necessarily contextualize something.. it looks like they were thrown onto an ugly modernistic building at the last moment, it doesn't blend very well...
ReplyDeleteThe context you don't see are James Stroud's beautiful Queen Anne rowhouses across the street of St Nicholas Ave, and the limestone/brownstone 3-4 story residences all along the avenue. That's the context a lot of us see and care about. I think the parapets, bridge arches, and coloring are a much better neighborhood-sensitive match than the new design, which presumably won due to maximizing space/revnue?
ReplyDelete- Ms. Harlem Born & RaisedDecember 6, 2010 at 8:15 AM
FYI: The view in that top rendering of the Children's Museum...shows that it is not St. Nicholas Avenue...it is St. Nicholas Place. Does that mean the museum will be between St. Nicholas Ave & St. Nicholas Place ?
I was born to a Harlem Renaissance baby, she & her Dad felt it important that I knew my neighborhood, Manhattan & the rest of this city...they are my home. And when it comes to Harlem, we need to keep things...like history & locations correct...we don't want to lose it in this current gentrefication.


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Aminu, Mansir (2007) A geographic information system (GIS) and multi-criteria analysis for sustainable tourism planning. Masters thesis, Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Faculty of Built Environment.
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The need for a sustainable approach in tourism development is very often addressed among the academia, the authorities and the stakeholders, as well as the apparent need for tools which will guide the decision environment in evaluation and planning. This project aims to identify conservation and compatible areas for tourism development in Johor Ramsar site, using spatial modeling in Geographic Information System (GIS). The study describes a methodological approach based on the integrated use of Geographic Information System (GIS) and Multi Criteria Decision Model (MCDM) to identify nature conservation and development priorities among the wetland areas. A set of criteria were defined to evaluate wetlands biodiversity conservation and development; the criteria include tree age class, harvesting season, size of endangered fauna, habitat's proximity to natural land use/ land cover, habitat area and water quality. Having defined the criteria, the next step was selecting suitable indicators and variables to measure the selected criteria. Subsequently the criteria were evaluated from conservation and tourism development point of view. These criteria were then ranked using the pair wise comparison technique of multi criteria analysis (MCA) and the results integrated into GIS. Several conservation scenarios are generated so as to simulate different evaluation perspectives. The scenarios are then compared to highlight the most feasible and to propose a conservation and development strategy for the wetlands area. The generation and comparison of conservation and development scenarios highlighted the critical issues of the decision problem, i.e. the wetland ecosystems whose conservation and development relevance is most sensitive to changes in the evaluation perspective. This study represents an important contribution to effective decision-making because it allows one to gradually narrow down a problem.
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Thursday, December 31, 2009
Just for the Occassion...
Seeing as today is New Years (I'm so excited about 2010!) I thought it was very fitting to share this super sweet bottle opener I came across...so scoot by Anthropologie on your way home from work – this one's too cute to pass up! Uncapping a cold soda or a frosty brew has never been so elegant with this "Castle Key Opener". It would make a great hostess gift and/or grab one for yourself. {I believe they are only $14!)
The other day I came across the work of New York based firm, S.R Gambrel. This segment of the couple's home, completely devoted to their collection and appreciation of wine, is just stunning. I could see wonderful, lively parties, with candles lit everywhere, amazing food, and great music, held in this warm wine cellar...
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The respected former Western Bulldogs star is regarded as one of the most successful ruck-forwards of the modern era.
Mobile and skilful for a big man, Darcy won the Bulldogs best and fairest – the Charles Sutton medal – in 2001, and was also awarded the venerated Leigh Matthews Trophy as the AFL Players Association Most Valuable Player in 2002. He would also win the club's goal-kicking title in 2004, before repeated serious knee injuries brought his career to a close at the end of the 2007 season.
A member of the AFL Rules Committee and a father-of-four, Darcy has carved out a burgeoning career as a radio and TV personality since he hung up the boots.
Luke says he's genuinely excited about being part of the Seven commentary team and the people that make the coverage.
"I'm looking forward to working with icons and legends of the game in the Seven line-up. It's going to be a fun year."
His calling style will be unfiltered as always. "I'll call it the way I see it, there won't be any hesitation in going for it if I feel it's warranted. That's the only way you can do it to be true to yourself.
"But overriding all of that I want to have fun. That's what footy is all about and this is the best job in the world."
In 2012 Luke says there's going to be a lot of intrigue in the first year coaches; Brenton Sanderson, Mark Neeld, Scott Watters and Brendan McCartney along with the coaches in their first year at a club, Ross Lyon and Kevin Sheedy.
"There will be a lot of interest in how they perform and what fresh ideas they bring to the table.
Luke also believes last year was one of the best years for high marks which he loved. "It's a unique and best part of our game. And I look forward to more long kicking and more high marks."
When the talk turns to premiership hopes, he says he really likes the Hawks' chances this year.
"Last year they had big injury issues in defence and yet they still managed to cover that well. If they're anywhere near full strength they'll be up there in contention.
"But I'll pick Collingwood to win it. Injury and suspension hurt at end of last season and they'll be very hungry for success this year and Buckley will deliver a fresh approach."
Luke can also be heard on Triple M's Hot Breakfast program during the week.
With an action-packed round five in the books, let's take a look at who led the way in 7Sport's AFL team of the week.
Sporting world commemorates Anzac Day
Around Australia, the sporting community took time to reflect and commemorate Anzac Day with a variety of tributes and ceremonies.
With round four in the books, let's take a look at who led the way in 7Sport's AFL team of the week.
With round three in the books, let's take a look at who led the way in 7Sport's round three team of the week.
With some big upsets in the second week of the season, check out who led the way in 7Sport's round two team of the week.
The first week of footy produced some brilliant performances, with some fresh new faces emerging in 7Sport's round one team of the week.
Check out some of the biggest scandals to have hit the Australian Football League.
Biggest moves of the AFL off-season
Now that the dust has settled on a blockbuster free agency and trade period, it's time to take a look at the biggest moves of the off-season and see which new faces ended up in new places.
As Hawthorn wrap up their third straight premiership win, take a look back at the iconic images from the 2015 AFL Grand Final.
Re-live all the magic of the 2015 Brownlow Medal ceremony, with the best snaps from the night.


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Emily Lakdawalla's blogs from 2015
Planetary Exploration Timelines: A Look Ahead to 2016
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/12/31 04:04 CST | 19 comments
How many planetary exploration missions are there, and where are they? These days, it's hard to keep track, because there are so many. I plan to begin the new year by taking stock of active missions, figuring out what each has set out to do and accomplished so far, but first I want to step back to consider the spread of missions across the solar system as a whole.
Two epic photos of Earth -- but which one is truer?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/12/29 05:19 CST | 1 comments
Two images of Earth taken from different spacecraft at the same time illustrate differences in "true" color imaging among spacecraft.
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter and Schiaparelli lander travel safely to Baikonur
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/12/28 03:14 CST | 3 comments
Europe's second mission to Mars has begun its journey from its birthplace in Cannes to its planned arrival at Mars on October 19. Since December 17 we've been able to watch every step of its journey via Twitter.
For the first time ever, a Curiosity Mastcam self-portrait from Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/12/22 06:17 CST | 1 comments
In a remarkable and wholly unexpected gift to Curiosity fans, the rover has just taken the first-ever color Mastcam self-portrait from Mars.
December solstice: Viewing Earth's seasonal shifts from space
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/12/22 10:12 CST | 2 comments
It's fun to watch the seasons shift from space, and as of this year we have new ways to do that.
Pluto updates from AGU and DPS: Pretty pictures from a confusing world
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/12/21 05:38 CST | 7 comments
Pluto is reluctant to give up its secrets. Last week at the American Geophysical Union meeting I attended sessions featuring results from the New Horizons mission, and most of the presentations could be summed up thusly: the data sets are terrific, but there are still a lot of Pluto features that have scientists scratching their heads.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/12/18 05:51 CST | 1 comments
Yesterday at the American Geophysical Union meeting, the Curiosity science team announced the discovery of a mineral never before found on Mars. The finding was the result of a fortuitous series of events, but as long as Curiosity's instruments continue to function well, it's the kind of discovery that Curiosity should now be able to repeat.
Worth the wait: First public release of Rosetta science camera images of comet 67P
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/12/17 12:30 CST | 4 comments
Finally! It has been a long wait, but so worth it: the Rosetta OSIRIS science camera team has delivered the first pile of data from the rendezvous with comet 67P to ESA's Planetary Science Archive. I have spent a good chunk of the last three days playing with the data, and it's spectacular.
A Rosetta OSIRIS picture of comet 67P that's only hours old
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/12/11 10:22 CST | 2 comments
ESA announced today a new website at which the OSIRIS team will now be releasing images on a regular basis -- at least one per week -- and they will be recent. Even better news, all OSIRIS data taken through September 16, 2014 has been handed to ESA and its release is expected next week.
Akatsuki's new orbit, first images, and science plans
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/12/09 06:30 CST | 9 comments
JAXA had a press briefing today to confirm the successful arrival of Akatsuki into Venus orbit. It's been a long time coming: today's announcement came twelve years to the day after Japan had to abandon efforts to put Nozomi into Mars orbit. They released lovely images and discussed future plans.
Timeline for Akatsuki's second attempt at orbit insertion
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/12/04 06:31 CST | 5 comments
This is it: Akatsuki's final chance at Venus orbit insertion. The rocket firing should begin on December 7 at 08:51 Japan time (December 6 23:51 UT / 15:51 PST) and last for 20 minutes. It will take two days for JAXA to determine whether the orbit has been changed enough for Akatsuki to stay at Venus.
Hayabusa2 views Earth and the Moon on approach to December 3 flyby
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/12/01 07:26 CST | 1 comments
I just love photos of Earth from planetary missions -- especially if they manage to get Earth and Moon in the same shot, as Hayabusa2 did on November 26.
Favorite Astro Plots #3: The rate of lunar cratering
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/11/30 07:03 CST
The third entry in my series of blog posts about Favorite Astro Plots contains one of the biggest discoveries from the Apollo program -- as well as one of the biggest questions in planetary science. The chart was nominated by planetary scientist Barbara Cohen. It has to do with the ages of surfaces on the Moon.
2015 Reviews of childrens' books about space
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/11/24 10:13 CST | 5 comments
Continuing an annual tradition, Emily Lakdawalla reviews children's books about space -- what's out there, how we explore, and why. Many of the books on this list aren't just for kids!
Mastcam-Z has passed its Preliminary Design Review!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/11/23 09:13 CST
A panel of outside experts reviewed the design of the Mars 2020 rover's color cameras, and approved the progress of Mastcam-Z. It still exists only as an idea in the cloud, but it's one significant step closer to being sent to Mars.
Watch the entire Cassini mission image catalog as a movie
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/11/20 09:43 CST | 2 comments
If you were to download the entire catalog of photos taken at Saturn to date by Cassini and then animate them like a flipbook, how long would it take to watch them all pass by? The Wall Street Journal's Visual Correspondent Jon Keegan has your answer: nearly four hours.
Two JAXA mission updates: Akatsuki Venus orbit entry and PROCYON Earth flyby coming up!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/11/19 05:51 CST
Akatsuki is finally approaching its second attempt to enter Venus orbit, on December 7; let's all wish JAXA the best of luck! And PROCYON, whose ion engines have failed, is still an otherwise perfectly functional spacecraft that is taking photos of Earth and the Moon as it approaches for a flyby.
DPS 2015: A little science from Rosetta, beyond perihelion
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/11/18 07:47 CST | 2 comments
Updated numbers for physical properties of the comet, and a few interesting images of surface features and surface changes on Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
Curiosity update, sols 1109-1165: Drilling at Big Sky and Greenhorn, onward to Bagnold Dunes
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/11/16 01:31 CST | 4 comments
Since my last update, Curiosity drilled two new holes, at Big Sky and Greenhorn, and is now approaching Bagnold Dunes.
DPS 2015: First reconnaissance of Ceres by Dawn
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/11/12 08:55 CST | 7 comments
This is the first major meeting since Dawn's arrival at Ceres, and despite competition with Pluto surface science there was a well-attended Ceres talk session on Monday and poster session on Tuesday.
DPS 2015: Pluto's small moons Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra [UPDATED]
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/11/10 02:18 CST | 7 comments
For my first post on results from the Division for Planetary Sciences meeting, I'm going to tell you about Pluto's small moons: Styx, Nix, Kerberos, and Hydra, their bright colors and wacky rotation states.
Reporting from the 47th annual Division for Planetary Sciences Meeting, DPS15
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/11/08 05:54 CST
I'll be reporting all week from Washington, D.C. from the 47th annual meeting of the Division for Planetary Sciences of the American Astronomical Society. Expect lots of news from New Horizons, Dawn, Cassini, MAVEN, WISE, and Rosetta missions, not to mention ground-based telescopes, plus a variety of other sources.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/11/04 07:15 CST
There have been several important pieces of news about European missions in the last month: Rosetta's fate has been determined; ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter's launch is slightly delayed; and they have selected a landing site for the ExoMars rover.
The round worlds in the solar system: An updated graphic
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/11/02 04:06 CST | 9 comments
I have a newly updated scale comparison graphic to share: all the round worlds in the solar system smaller than 10,000 kilometers in diameter, now with added Pluto, Charon, and Ceres.
Dawn data from Ceres publicly released: Finally, color global portraits!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/10/22 03:24 CDT | 5 comments
A few days ago, Dawn officially released the first big pile of data from the Ceres mission phase. Thanks to the public release, I can show you color global portraits of Ceres.
Filling in the Enceladus map: Cassini's 20th flyby
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/10/16 06:19 CDT | 7 comments
A couple of days ago, Cassini flew past Enceladus for its 20th targeted encounter. Cassini has seen and photographed quite a lot of Enceladus before, but there's still new terrain for it to cover.
Favorite Astro Plots #2: Condensation of the solar system
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/10/14 01:34 CDT | 2 comments
Behold: the story of how our solar system began, in one chart. This is the second installment in a series of planetary scientists' favorite plots. Today's #FaveAstroPlot was suggested by spectroscopist Michael Bramble.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/10/13 06:40 CDT | 3 comments
Last week, the pile of New Horizons LORRI camera raw image releases included nine frames from a high-resolution mosaic on Charon. Together with the color MVIC view, they make a 3D global photo of Pluto's moon. Other recently released goodies include a global backlit color image of Pluto and the first image that resolves the tiny moon Styx.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/10/07 02:06 CDT | 2 comments
With some help from astronomer Elizabeth Tasker and a group of astronomy graduate students from the University of Hokkaido, I learn how.
Mars Orbiter Mission update: A year at Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/10/06 06:16 CDT | 2 comments
A couple of weeks ago, there was a flurry of rumor that ISRO was ready to announce some results from its Mars Orbiter Mission's methane sensor. The Indian space agency held a press event for the one-year-in-orbit anniversary of Mars Orbiter Mission and released a book containing mission photos, but did not unveil any new scientific results.
Hayabusa2's target asteroid has a name!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/10/05 12:19 CDT | 2 comments
JAXA announced today the results of the naming contest for Hayabusa2. The target of the sample-return mission, formerly known as 1999 JU3 and still numbered 162173, is now named 162173 Ryugu.
Finding new language for space missions that fly without humans
Unmanned? Robotic? Unpiloted? Uncrewed? Unoccupied? Unhumaned? Drone? Autonomous? Crewless?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/10/05 11:14 CDT | 88 comments
Historically, human spaceflight was described using the words "manned" and "unmanned," but NASA has shifted to using gender-neutral words to describe human space exploration, even though the Associated Press has not. A recent discussion on Twitter among science writers and scientists highlighted some alternatives.
New Horizons releases new color pictures of Charon, high-resolution lookback photo of Pluto
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/10/02 06:05 CDT | 15 comments
Now that New Horizons is regularly sending back data, the mission is settling into a routine of releasing a set of captioned images on Thursdays, followed by raw LORRI images on Friday. The Thursday releases give us the opportunity to see lovely color data from the spacecraft's Ralph MVIC instrument. This week, the newly available color data set covered Charon.
Favorite Astro Plots #1: Asteroid orbital parameters
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/10/01 03:42 CDT | 3 comments
This is the first in a series of posts in which scientists share favorite planetary science plots. For my #FaveAstroPlot, I explain what you can see when you look at how asteroid orbit eccentricity and inclination vary with distance from the Sun.
The solar system at 1 kilometer per pixel: Can you identify these worlds? The answers
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/09/30 10:00 CDT | 13 comments
Last Friday I posted an image containing 18 samples of terrain, all shown at the same scale. Were you able to figure out which square was which? Here are the answers.
NASA's Mars Announcement: Present-day transient flows of briny water on steep slopes
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/09/28 02:26 CDT | 25 comments
NASA held a press briefing today to publicize a cool incremental result in the story of present-day liquid water on Mars. How big a deal is this story? Was all the pre-announcement hype justified? Is this just NASA discovering water on Mars for the zillionth time? What does this mean for things many space fans care about: life on Mars or future human exploration?
The solar system at 1 kilometer per pixel: Can you identify these worlds?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/09/25 02:27 CDT | 13 comments
A look at the surfaces of 18 worlds in our solar system, all at the same scale.
Lose yourself in this high-resolution portrait of Pluto
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/09/24 04:45 CDT | 13 comments
Enlarge this image to its full 8000-pixel-square glory and lose yourself in it.
Checking in on Uranus and Neptune, September 2015 edition
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/09/22 01:28 CDT | 5 comments
There are no spacecraft at Uranus or Neptune, and there haven't been for 30 and 25 years, respectively. So we depend on Earth-based astronomers to monitor them, including Damian Peach.
Curiosity update, sols 1073-1107: Driving toward dunes, distracted by haloes
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/09/18 07:40 CDT | 1 comments
Since I last checked in with Curiosity, the rover has been steadily driving southward, heading directly toward the Bagnold dune field. They are looking for a place to drill into the Stimson sandstone unit, but have been distracted by intriguing pale haloes around frock fractures. Despite a rough road, the wheels are not showing significant increase in damage.
Spectacular New Horizons photo of Pluto's hazes and mountains: How it was made
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/09/17 04:04 CDT | 11 comments
Today, New Horizons released a stunning new image of Pluto's backlit mountains and hazes. I explain how the image was taken with its Ralph Multispectral Visible Imaging Camera.
Roundup of the September 11, 2015 New Horizons raw image release
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/09/15 04:47 CDT | 4 comments
Last Friday the Internet received its first post-encounter pile of goodies from the New Horizons flyby of the Pluto system.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/09/11 11:04 CDT | 5 comments
When Rosetta approached comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko last summer, both its shape and its activity were surprising. It looked like two comets welded together at a skinny neck. A new paper explains how the neck may be steepening itself.
Pretty Pictures: Downlink of the Full New Horizons Data Set Has Begun
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/09/10 04:52 CDT | 7 comments
New Horizons has begun the long process of downlinking all the images it acquired during its July Pluto flyby.
Dawn Ceres image bonanza: Grab your 3D glasses!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/09/09 08:04 CDT | 4 comments
For months, Dawn has been steadily, methodically sharing dozens of images of brand-new sights of a previously unexplored icy world. For the last couple of days I've been making up for lost time, completely buried in the Dawn Ceres images, and I have some maps and 3D anaglyphs to share with you.
Chang'e 5 test vehicle maps future sample return site
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/09/03 12:13 CDT | 4 comments
This summer the Chinese space agency has been making progress toward its planned 2017 launch of the Chang'e 5 robotic sample return mission, performing low-altitude imaging of the future landing site.
New Horizons extended mission target selected
Posted by Emily LakdawallaCasey Dreier on 2015/09/01 06:09 CDT | 6 comments
The New Horizons mission has formally selected its next target after Pluto: a tiny, dim, frozen world currently named 2014 MU69. The spacecraft will perform a series of four rocket firings in October and November to angle its trajectory to pass close by 2014 MU69 in early January 2019. In so doing, New Horizons will become the first flyby craft to pass by a target that was not discovered before the spacecraft launched.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/08/26 10:11 CDT | 4 comments
Take a delightful, pixelated journey with French artist Boulet as he explains his love for the "infinite void" of the "mathematical skies."
Three space fan visualizations of New Horizons' Pluto-Charon flyby
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/08/25 01:42 CDT | 4 comments
It has been a difficult wait for new New Horizons images, but the wait is almost over; Alan Stern announced at today's Outer Planets Advisory Group meeting that image downlink will resume September 5. In the meantime, a few space fans are making the most of the small amount of data that has been returned to date.
Galileo's best pictures of Jupiter's ringmoons
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/08/24 07:07 CDT | 4 comments
People often ask me to produce one of my scale-comparison montages featuring the small moons of the outer solar system. I'd love to do that, but Galileo's best images of Jupiter's ringmoons lack detail compared to Cassini's images from Saturn.
The story behind Curiosity's self-portraits on Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/08/19 03:52 CDT | 2 comments
How and why does Curiosity take self-portraits? A look at some of the people and stories behind Curiosity's "selfies" on the occasion of the official release of the sol 1065 belly pan self-portrait at Buckskin, below Marias Pass, Mars.
Curiosity update, sols 1012-1072: Sciencing back and forth below Marias Pass
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/08/14 07:14 CDT
Since my last update, Curiosity has driven back and forth repeatedly across a section of rocks below Marias pass. The rover finally drilled at a spot named Buckskin on sol 1060, marking the drill's return to operations after suffering a short on sol 911. Now the rover is driving up into Marias Pass and onto the Washboard or Stimson unit.
ESA's cool new interactive comet visualization tool based on amateur imaging work with open data
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/08/13 01:49 CDT | 2 comments
A terrific new visualization tool for comet 67/P Churyumov-Gerasimenko demonstrates the value of sharing mission image data with the public. The browser-based tool lets you spin a simulated 3D view of the comet. It began with a 3D model of the comet created not by ESA, but by a space enthusiast, Mattias Malmer.
Community service: Vetting my local library's children's space books
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/08/12 07:31 CDT | 8 comments
Space fans, here is a valuable community service that you can perform in your neighborhood: Vet your school library's space book collections. My kids' elementary school librarian asked me to take a look at the nonfiction space book collection and cull any outdated or just wrong books. I culled quite a few, and am now recommending some replacements.
What's up in solar system exploration: August 2015 edition
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/08/10 07:31 CDT | 5 comments
I'm back from two weeks' vacation, so it's time to catch up on the status of all our intrepid planetary missions, from Akatsuki to the Voyagers and hitting the Moon, Mars, asteroids, comets, and Saturn in between.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/24 07:12 CDT | 17 comments
I don't think anyone was prepared for the beauty -- or the instant scientific discoveries -- in this "lookback" image of Pluto, captured by New Horizons shortly after it flew by.
Jupiter's changing face, 2009-2015
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/24 08:46 CDT | 4 comments
Damian Peach's photo-documentation of Jupiter helps us monitor the giant planet's ever-changing patterns of belts, zones, storms, and barges, during a time when no orbiting missions are there to take pictures.
Name Hayabusa2's asteroid target!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/22 04:25 CDT | 3 comments
Have you ever wanted to name an asteroid? JAXA is offering the opportunity to name Hayabusa2's target asteroid, 1999 JU3 to the public through a contest that runs through August 31.
New Horizons encounter plus one week: Weird and wonderful images from the Pluto system
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/21 06:39 CDT | 23 comments
So many new image goodies from the Pluto system!
DSCOVR mission releases first EPIC global view of Earth, more to come in September
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/20 02:33 CDT | 17 comments
Five months after its launch, the Deep Space Climate Observatory (DSCOVR) mission has successfully journeyed to the region of space where Sun and Earth gravitational attraction offset each other. From the vantage point of L1, DSCOVR's EPIC camera has captured its first full-globe view of Earth, and it's well, epic.
New Horizons: Awaiting the data
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/19 11:21 CDT | 32 comments
New Horizons' encounter and data downlinks have been going exactly as planned, but the raw image website has not been updated for many days. What's going on? I found out.
Latest New Horizons picture of Charon: oddly familiar
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/16 02:45 CDT | 14 comments
The New Horizons team released one more picture from Tuesday's encounter, one of three high-resolution images from a mosaic that crossed the center of Charon's disk, and it took me a while to figure out what it reminded me of.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/15 04:42 CDT | 33 comments
Today's press briefing at the Applied Physics Laboratory in California was preceded by hours of New Horizons team members cryptically dropping hints on Twitter at astonishing details in the seven images downlinked since the flyby. The images are, in fact, astonishing, as well as beautiful, surprising, and puzzling.
New Horizons "phones home" after Pluto flyby
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/14 09:39 CDT | 7 comments
After a wait of more than 22 hours with no communication, New Horizons "phoned home" precisely on schedule after its flyby of Pluto. The signal was received at 00:52:37 UT | 20:52:37 ET | 17:52:37 PT. As planned, New Horizons returned no images with the Phone Home downlink. But every bit of telemetry indicated that the flyby executed successfully.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/14 12:48 CDT | 37 comments
Now that I have a reasonable-resolution global color view of Pluto, I can drop it into one of my trademark scale image montages, to show you how it fits in with the rest of the similar-sized worlds in the solar system: the major moons and the biggest asteroids.
New Horizons' best look at Pluto before close approach
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/14 08:12 CDT | 27 comments
Feast your eyes upon it!
Pluto minus one day: Very first New Horizons Pluto encounter science results
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/13 12:16 CDT | 15 comments
At a press briefing this morning, New Horizons principal investigator Alan Stern divulged some extremely preliminary first science results from the New Horizons Pluto encounter. Science results include Pluto's diameter and information on its surface composition and atmospheric escape.
Zooming in to Pluto and Charon
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/12 07:31 CDT | 9 comments
In the span of a few days, Pluto and Charon have turned from spots into worlds. The latest images from New Horizons are showing Pluto and Charon to have unique faces, distinct from any other icy worlds in the solar system.
Two more brief mission updates: Philae makes contact; Akatsuki to perform course correction
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/10 09:38 CDT | 6 comments
As a followup to yesterday's post about Dawn, Juno, and OSIRIS-REx, I have updates on two more missions. With this post, I hope to have cleared the decks so that I can focus on Pluto for the next week!
Three mission updates: Trouble for Dawn at Ceres; A new plan for Juno; OSIRIS-REx coming together
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/09 04:25 CDT | 6 comments
With all the focus on Pluto it's hard to keep up with all the other space missions currently exploring other planets. Here are brief updates on three of them.
More than 2000 Rosetta NavCam images for your enjoyment
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/07 02:10 CDT | 2 comments
Last week, the European Space Agency released the first set of images from Rosetta's navigational camera, or NavCam, from the phase of the mission that followed the Philae landing. That makes more than 3500 NavCam images that have been released from the comet phase of the mission.
New Horizons "back in action" after safe mode event, ready to resume encounter science
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/06 04:12 CDT | 10 comments
NASA held a press briefing today to explain the nature and cause of the spacecraft anomaly that halted science on New Horizons for four days as it was on its terminal approach to Pluto. As of the moment that I write this post, New Horizons is not yet performing science observations, but it will resume them tomorrow, July 7.
New Horizons enters safe mode 10 days before Pluto flyby [UPDATED]
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/05 10:25 CDT | 18 comments
New Horizons decided to put on a little 4th of July drama for the mission's fans. It's currently in safe mode, and it will likely be a day or two before it recovers and returns to science, but it remains on course for the July 14 flyby. Here's the mission update in its entirety.
[UPDATE]: Normal operations are planned to resume July 7.
Pluto's progression: Third-to-last Pluto day before encounter
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/07/03 08:49 CDT | 6 comments
Only two days remain until New Horizons' historic encounter with Pluto....two Pluto days, that is. Pluto and Charon rotate together once every 6.4 days, so as New Horizons has approached the pair over the last week, we've been treated to one stately progression of all of their longitudes.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/06/24 07:57 CDT | 22 comments
Three months ago, I posted an article explaining what to expect during the flyby. This is a revised version of the same post, with some errors corrected, the expected sizes of Nix and Hydra updated, and times of press briefings added.
New Horizons update: Resolving features on Charon and seeing in color
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/06/23 11:02 CDT | 13 comments
Only about three weeks remain until the flyby — it's getting really close! I almost don't want the anticipation to end. New Horizons is now getting color images and is seeing features on Charon. Deep searches have yielded no new moons.
Transient hot spots on Venus: Best evidence yet for active volcanism
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/06/18 06:42 CDT | 3 comments
In a paper released in Geophysical Research Letters today, Eugene Shalygin and coauthors have announced the best evidence yet for current, active volcanism on Venus. The evidence comes from the Venus Monitoring Camera, which saw transient hot spots in four locations along a system of rifts near Venus' equator. They saw the hot spots in two distinct episodes in 2008 and 2009.
Philae is awake! What's next for the comet lander's scientific mission?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/06/17 05:16 CDT | 5 comments
I woke up early Sunday morning to the dramatic news: Philae is back! With a few days to consider the telemetry, the Philae team is now talking about the science they hope to do. With comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko approaching perihelion in August, it's going to be an exciting ride.
Pluto and Charon spin among the stars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/06/16 08:10 CDT | 7 comments
I've spent a happy couple of days playing with raw data downloaded from the New Horizons website, making animations of the dances of Pluto and Charon.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/06/15 09:41 CDT | 2 comments
Three astronauts have returned to Earth, and while I'm happy that they landed safely, I'm very sad that astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti is not in space anymore to wish us "buona notte dallo spazio" with her lovely photos and piquant comments.
Curiosity update, sols 978-1011: Into Marias Pass; ChemCam back in action; solar conjunction
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/06/10 07:26 CDT | 7 comments
It's been an eventful few weeks for Curiosity on Mars. From sols 981 to 986, Curiosity's human pilots tried and failed to drive the rover southward; but, retracing their steps to Logan's Run, they quickly found a way up and into a beautiful geological amphitheater named Marias Pass, where they will stay throughout Mars solar conjunction. They also returned ChemCam to normal operations.
An enigmatic line across Pluto: Plutonian canali!?
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/06/09 07:03 CDT | 17 comments
Pluto and Charon are growing larger in New Horizons' forward view, beginning to develop distinct personalities. A version of recent New Horizons photos processed by Björn Jónsson reveals an enigmatic dark line. Our maps of Pluto's surface are now as good as our maps of Mars and Venus, circa 1900!
A (very) few more details on Pluto
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/06/01 04:09 CDT | 9 comments
Last week the New Horizons mission released a few new processed versions of their latest and greatest images of Pluto. They're the best images of Pluto that Earth has ever seen, but they're still a long way from what New Horizons will be able to show us, six weeks from now.
Four mission assembly progress reports: ExoMars TGO, InSight, OSIRIS-REx, and BepiColombo
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/05/28 06:12 CDT | 4 comments
2015 has seen few deep-space-craft launches, but 2016 is shaping up to be a banner year with three launches, followed quickly by a fourth in early 2017. All of the missions under development have reported significant milestones recently.
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/05/24 01:21 CDT | 7 comments
Pause your life for six minutes and watch the Sun set....on Mars. Thank you, Glen Nagle, for this awe-inspiring simulation based on Curiosity's sol 956 sunset images.
Tons of fun with the latest Ceres image releases from Dawn
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/05/22 04:59 CDT | 20 comments
Fantastic new images of Ceres continue to spill out of the Dawn mission, and armchair scientists all over the world are zooming into them, exploring them, and trying to solve the puzzles that they contain.
Rover eyes on rock layers on Mars
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/05/19 04:27 CDT | 2 comments
Digging in to mission image archives yields similar images of layered Martian rocks from very different places.
Unseen latitudes of comet Churyumov-Gerasimenko -- revealed!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/05/15 12:11 CDT | 2 comments
A recent Rosetta image has revealed a good part of the comet's previously hidden southern terrain to the public for the first time.
New Horizons spots Kerberos and Styx
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/05/12 05:56 CDT | 3 comments
New Horizons has now spotted every one of Pluto's satellites...all the ones we know about, that is.
Due to ion engine failure, PROCYON will not fly by an asteroid
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/05/08 04:23 CDT | 2 comments
PROCYON, the mini-satellite launched with Hayabusa2, will not be able to achieve its planned asteroid flyby due to the failure of its ion engine.
Curiosity update, sols 949-976: Scenic road trip and a diversion to Logan's Run
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/05/06 06:04 CDT | 4 comments
Curiosity is finally on the road again! And she's never taken a more scenic route than this. Her path to Mount Sharp is taking her to the west and south, across sandy swales between rocky rises.
A week's worth of "RC3" images from Dawn at Ceres
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/05/05 12:25 CDT | 1 comments
Now that Dawn is in its science orbit at Ceres, the mission has been releasing new images every weekday!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/05/01 06:55 CDT | 5 comments
There is one less robot exploring the solar system today. MESSENGER, which has orbited Mercury for four years, finally ran out of fuel and crashed into the planet at 17:26 UT on Thursday, April 30, 2015.
New Horizons sees surface features on Pluto, begins raw image release
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/04/29 08:06 CDT | 11 comments
Today the New Horizons team released a new animation of images taken on approach to Pluto. The animation clearly shows how Pluto wobbles around the Pluto-Charon barycenter. It also shows something more exciting to the scientists: variations in brightness across the surface of Pluto. They also began releasing raw images to the Internet.
More than 1000 Rosetta NavCam images released!
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/04/29 11:50 CDT
Today the European Space Agency released a ton of NavCam images, taken as the spacecraft approached and then entered orbit at the comet.
A few gems from the latest Cassini image data release
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/04/24 06:30 CDT | 4 comments
I checked out the latest public image release from Cassini and found an awesome panorama across Saturn's rings, as well as some pretty views looking over Titan's north pole.
Rosetta update: Two close flybys of an increasingly active comet
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/04/21 03:07 CDT | 6 comments
In the two months since I last checked up on the Rosetta mission, the comet has heated up, displaying more and more jet activity. Rosetta completed very close flybys on February 14 and March 28, taking amazing photos. But comet dust is making navigation difficult, so the mission is now keeping a respectful distance from the comet and replanning its future path.
New views of three worlds: Ceres, Pluto, and Charon
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/04/16 03:17 CDT | 7 comments
New Horizons took its first color photo of Pluto and Charon, while Dawn obtained a 20-frame animation looking down on the north pole of a crescent Ceres.
PROCYON update: Asteroid 2000 DP107 target selected, ion engine stopped
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/04/13 12:15 CDT | 3 comments
PROCYON (PRoximate Object Close flYby with Optical Navigation) is a microsatellite that launched on December 3 as a secondary payload with Hayabusa2. The mission has now selected their asteroid flyby target -- a binary asteroid named 2000 DP107 -- but is reporting a problem with their ion engines.
Curiosity update, sols 896-949: Telegraph Peak, Garden City, and concern about the drill
Posted by Emily Lakdawalla on 2015/04/10 07:37 CDT | 1 comments
Since I last wrote about Curiosity drilling at Pink Cliffs, the rover has visited and studied two major sites, drilling at one of them. It has also suffered a short in the drill percussion mechanism that presents serious enough risk to warrant a moratorium on drill use until engineers develop a plan to continue to operate it safely.
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Located in Toronto (Chinatown), Super 8 Downtown Toronto is minutes from Art Gallery of Ontario and Bellevue Square.
This motel is close to Canadian Broadcasting Centre and CN Tower.
Make yourself at home in one of the 92 air-conditioned rooms featuring refrigerators and flat-screen televisions. Complimentary wireless Internet access keeps you connected, and cable programming is available for your entertainment. Bathrooms feature shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers. Conveniences include safes and desks, as well as phones with free local calls.
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The hotel's modern lobby features a 24-hour front offering tours/ticket assistance, complimentary newspapers and coffee, and a computer with complimentary high-speed Internet access. A small breakfast room hosts a complimentary Continental breakfast each morning with fruit, baked goods, and cereals. Beer, wine, and non-alcoholic beverages are served in an onsite lounge. A fitness center provides cardio equipment, and spa services are available including a shiatsu massage room. 2 meeting rooms accommodate groups up to 12, and wireless Internet access is complimentary in public areas. Business services can also be arranged; fees may apply. Guests have access to coin-operated laundry facilities. Garage parking is available for a surcharge. Super 8 Downtown Toronto is a smoke-free property.
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Insalata di farro
Farro - spelt or emmer wheat - is very popular in health food circles, but rarely used in ordinary American and Northeuropean cooking, and that is a shame. Farro grains dominated the diet of the Roman legions when they conquered the world, it is highly nutricious, rich on natural fibers, and so versatile that it can be eaten whole where it has a nice chewy texture or ground to flour and used for pasta, polenta or bread.
In Tuscany farro has even reached IGP (Indicazione Geographica Protetta) status, and it is sold in elegant bags from high profiled food stores. IGP farro grow in the Garfagnana mountains in the province of Lucca, where it is mainly mainly used in soups, Cheaper and more anonymous farro is also readily available from supermarkets throughout Italy that offer a range of three different qualities. And they all taste great in this winter salad.
2 dl farro
2 celery sticks
1 yellow pepper
1 red pepper
4 tbsp olive oil
½ lemon juice
Follow the cooking instructions on the farro packing. Sometimes the grains should be soaked before they are boiled in plenty of salted water.
When the grains are al dente – usually after 20 minutes – let them drain in a sieve, before mixing with oil and lemon juice.
Clean the vegetables, remove seeds from the peppers and chop them in regular pieces.
Mix vegetables with grains and dressing, and leave the salad to rest in a cool place before serving.
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Love it!
Love the dress...... So cute and breezy. She really pulls off short hair! I wish I could! Great post. :)
I love the choice of the nude sandals with the dress and the canvas bag...very earthy.. :)
what a sweet little dress!
why are there so many adorable and well dressed folks in portland? i think i may be living in the wrong city!
This woman is GORgeous! Such wonderful healthy legs, skin and hair. I love it.xoBlue
She's so adorable! That's such a perfect summer dress.


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