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Friday, February 8, 2019 — The OECS Tourism sector has been given a strategic boost at the recent meeting of The Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) Ministers of Tourism and their technical staff meeting.
Recognizing the tourism sector as a key economic driver, the OECS Commission's Tourism Work Plan was endorsed with key initiatives approved including the Tourism Brand Perception Survey, Tourism Competitiveness Index and the Tourism Enterprise Support programme including activities for Community Tourism and Small Properties engagement.
A commitment was also made to enhance joint tourism marketing and promotion and to establish modalities for greater community participation in the OECS tourism product.
OECS Head of Economic Affairs (OIC), Mrs. Jacqueline Emmanuel-Flood reiterated the importance of the Ministerial Meetings to keep driving strategic decisions designed for the ultimate benefit of all citizens through increased economic activity.
"Tourism continues to be a key economic driver for the OECS region and these Ministerial meetings are of the utmost importance in providing the mandate for the OECS Commission to pursue its common tourism objectives." said Mrs. Emmanuel-Flood.
The meeting was chaired by Hon. Cardigan Connor, Parliamentary Secretary in the Ministry of Tourism, Anguilla.
The two main discussion items were the OECS Tourism Work Programme and the OECS Commission collaboration with the International Air Transport Association (IATA).
Other matters discussed included OECS presence at Beijing Expo 2019 and the OECS Commission alliances with international governments.
Hon. Cardigan Connor expressed satisfaction with the outcome of the meeting.
"It is important for the OECS Tourism Ministers to continue to dialogue on a regular basis, as the industry we are responsibility for is a dynamic one.
"We need to enhance the competitiveness of the OECS Tourism product and we look to the OECS Commission to take the lead on critical issues impacting our region" said Hon. Connor.
The meeting was held in in Jamaica on Monday January 28 2019, 2019 ahead of the Caribbean Hotel & Tourism Association's Caribbean Travel Marketplace.
The next OECS Council of Ministers: Tourism meeting is a virtual meeting planned for March 2019. Members States and the OECS Commission agreed to increased the one-on-one dialogue in between meetings.
|This story aligns with OECS Strategic Objective No.1: Advance, support and accelerate regional trade, economic and social integration.


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Other than focusing on the normal slopes, we are also focusing on fun areas, not only for the bravest and expert ones, such as the snowpark; but also for those who like to challenge their friends on snow, such as the Freeride Cross; and for families, such as the Yepi course.
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Without a doubt, 2017 has been a difficult year for department store brands. Macy's, Sears, and J.C. Penney have all reported ongoing struggles with shrinking foot traffic, declining same-store sales and falling margins for the last several consecutive quarters – and though many promises have been made, no turn around is readily apparent for most of the players in the struggling segment.
In the rather fraught world of department store commerce, cure-alls are not readily available these days.
But interesting ideas abound – and, this week, one of the more eye-catching ideas has appeared almost out of nowhere.
Two of the largest retail players in the luxury department store space – Neiman Marcus and Hudson's Bay – may soon be joining their fortunes. Hudson's Bay is the Canadian parent of both Lord & Taylor and Saks 5th Avenue.
Neiman Marcus has struggled in recent years as shopping habits and preferences among consumers has shifted – and the Texas-based luxury retailer has found it difficult to navigate the shift. Consumers, especially the younger ones, have been trained to prefer digital experiences for their immediacy and simplicity to their in-store counterparts. Years of discounting as a standard response to try to drive customers back to stores has left have also left large swaths of the buying population unwilling to pay full price – even for high-end and luxury goods.
This has left Neiman Marcus in a bit of a bind – and the fate of the 42 stores it operates in the United States a bit uncertain.
The situation is not something the high-end retailer has failed to notice – and, in fairness, Neiman Marcus has worked hard, particularly in the last few years, to upgrade for the digital edge.
Two weeks ago we spoke with the head of Neiman Marcus' Innovation Lab Scott Emmons about the their hew hi-tech flagship in Dallas-Fort Worth – and how the chain plans to broaden its base.
"If we only focus on the core, then we never bring any new customers into that circle. Across markets we are always thinking about delivering the best experience to our best customer always. But how do we make that circle bigger and deliver that across the board to people who have taken the time to walk in the door so that we are creating that relationship that ends up creating a new, repeat customer?" Emmons told PYMNTS' Karen Webster about the brand's efforts to hit reset on their in-store retail experience while maintaining the high level of customer service for which they are famous.
But, on Tuesday, it came out in a financial disclosure that also among the "strategic options" the brand is considering is a sale, to deal with around $5 billion in debt and slumping sales.
So: what will the potential tie-up mean for both brands – what's it in for Hudson's Bay – and, will it work?
So Are The Talks Real
It is worth noting that so far there is no official confirmation of this rumor from either of the main players. Hudson's Bay has specifically said in this case that it does not discuss market rumors.
But it also winked a bit at the notion it might do some acquiring.
"Generally speaking, as we have previously stated, we selectively evaluate opportunities to accelerate the company's strategic growth while maintaining or enhancing its credit profile."
Hudson's Bay had also, in recent memory, been discussed as a potential suitor to Macy's – though the unnamed sources in this case seem to think the talks with Neiman Marcus are further along.
Financial details about a merger have not been leaked – though "a person with knowledge" of the talks said any deal would be contingent on Hudson's Bay assuming Neiman Marcus's significant debt load.
If the deal were to go through, it would mark the third-time Neiman Marcus has changed hands since 2005 (it has been owned by private equity firms for the last 12 years).
Neiman Marcus abandoned its plans to go public in January, a month before the ratings agency Standard & Poor's downgraded it to a CCC+.
The Hudson's Bay companies have done a bit better in the shift to digital retail: Richard A. Baker, the chief executive of Hudson's Bay, has long made digital innovation an important and central part of the business, and has put about $1 billion into store renovations.
Hudson's Bay also has the advantage of primarily operating in Canada – where the department store market is much, much less active.
"The Canadian market is way less competitive," David Soberman, a professor of marketing at the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management told The New York Times, "Here there's basically just the Bay; in their niche, there's not really anybody else."
The competition in Canada, Soberman notes, is largely from big box and wholesale chains like Costco and Walmart – and the high end is dominated by or Holt Renfrew, a Canadian luxury goods retailer with prices that start where Hudson's Bay generally tops out. The middle of the market, on the other hand, is pretty much owned by Hudson's Bay.
"If you want certain things and you don't want the very best, the Bay is probably a good choice, the only choice," Professor Soberman said, adding that Nordstrom's gradual move into Canada might have eroded that prized position, at least among the more affluent Hudson's Bay shoppers.
Will It Work
So far, enthusiasm for the deal has not been overwhelming. Hudson's Bay's stock price fell slightly on the speculation, and some think that the merger here won't change the essentially troubling picture enough.
"I look at this just as moving the deck chairs around on the proverbial Titanic," Mark A. Cohen, the director of retail studies at Columbia Business School, told the New York Times in a conversation about a potential merger between Hudson's Bay and Neiman Marcus.
But given the falling figures – clearly, something has to happen. And perhaps, when it comes to upper-middle class department store chains, Neiman Marcus and Hudson's Bay can take on better together.
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George Turnah | EFCC arraigns former presidents relative for Fraud. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned George Turnah, a former coordinator of the Goodluck Jonathan/Namadi Sambo campaign organization before the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt, Rivers state … [Read more...]
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Goodluck Jonathan was kicked out of office for not supporting Gay people according to Reno Omokri. Former President Jonathan this morning on his Facebook page, shared excepts from the chapter one of Facts Versus Fiction: The True Story of Jonathan Years, Chibok, 2015 and The Conspiracies, a book … [Read more...]
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Reno Omokri exposes the foreign powers that made sure Goodluck Jonathan didn't win election. A former special assistant to President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, has vowed to reveal how the United States conspired with the ruling APC to remove his former principal from office in 2015. He said … [Read more...]
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It is common for women to tell their stories of abuse by their husbands but rare for men in similar situation to tell their own stories, but I am tired, depressed, suicidal and I think I should just tell my story.
I got married four years ago at the age of 32, six years after graduating. Employment didn't come immediately, but I was able to put some money together and start a little business.
My business boomed as fate would have it and I also got a well paying job. I decided to marry and I married this lady six months after I met her.
Two years into the marriage, I lost everything. Everything.
My job, my business and all my savings gradually went
For two years, I have tried to get another job to no avail, I couldn't sit idle, so I did every menial job I could find. Name that menial job, I have done it.
Then I saw my wife, the real her.
On days when there is nothing for me to attend to on the site, my wife makes sure I am never idle. She deliberately litters the house and reminds me that the house will not clean itself, meaning I should clean it up.
She makes me wash the dishes, then graduated to making me the house cook. I bathe our two kids, do the laundry and every house chore.
On days when there is a job waiting for me outside, I still return home to most of the chores. According to her, she is the breadwinner she can't also be the slave, so I should choose one…
For a very long time, I did not complain, I saw reasons with her, even respected her until she became really abusive.
She accompanies every errand with an insult, she blasts me if I add meat to my food, she wakes me up with slaps. She curses me at will.
I told her to let me take the kids to my family so she wouldn't have to spend her money, she refused… I travelled to stay with my brother, she said I wanted to kill her with too much stress, working and taking care of the kids. She called one day to say our first child had died! I rushed back, it was a lie!
Staying under the same roof with her is hell, I cannot steal and I still haven't found a job! When I say 'No' to an errand, no food for me! I can't remember the last time we related well.
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Honestly how much longer can German politicians take their citizens for mugs? To have certain parties (SPD, Greens) suggest that non-citizens be given the right to vote is ridiculous. Is this all part of the bigger welcoming society they claim or a ploy to add to the ranks of dependents on government hand outs to build a voter base for life? Social Democrat (SPD) voters are 63.7% in favour and Greens voters 64.8% in favour of letting refugees vote. The voters for Alternative for Germany (AfD) showed 96.9% against the idea.
In total 57% rejected the proposal with 42.9% voting "absolutely no way". 16.2% were definitely in favour. 55.6% of respondents between the ages of 18 and 29 support the proposal. However, at least one third (32.8%) in this age group also says "Absolutely no way". The greatest rejection is among participants between the ages of 50 and 64 years. 68.1% of respondents to this age group reject the idea for the proposed right to vote.
Potential voters need not be an EU citizen nor do they need to pay taxes. The mere right to vote depends on being there at the time. Although Martin Schulz's SPD is leading the polls the idea that voting rights are no more valuable confetti will give rise to further (current) voter discontent. Once again where is a nation's pride and respect when long term law abiding taxpayers are told that one doesn't even have to contribute to a society before given rights to determine the course of its destiny.
I've lived in Japan for 20 years and I've paid more tax than I care to remember the entire period yet I have no voting rights. They are for citizens. I am a permanent resident not a citizen. I accept it. We're the Japanese to offer voting rights to me of course I would take them if legally offered but I can choose to leave Japan if I don't like the fact I can't vote. What Germany is doing is selling out citizens. No amount of 'assimilation and integration' rhetoric could convince me that this is a sensible strategy. Why not let Canadians and Mexicans vote in American elections and vice versa. Why not go a step further and have a global vote and dispense with countries. Sounds like the precursors to global government. That Schulz left his cozy presidency in the EU was not as a snub to Brussels but a plan to push EU federalism beyond that of what Merkel has been prepared to.
If Germans vote in Merkel or Schulz to power they have themselves to blame for self inflicted schadenfreude.


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After being announced as Grammy nominee for Best R&B Album, Best R&B Song, Best R&B Performance. BJ The Chicago Kid brings new music for this winter's cuffing season with a new mixtape titled The Lost Files: Cuffing Season. The project brings smooth melody combines of old soul and new school channeling Marvin Gaye and other legendary soul singers.
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Only one black actress has made it on the annual list of TV's 10 highest-paid actresses unveiled this year by Forbes magazine, generating a debate about the lack of pay equality among black folks in the industry.
For the fifth year in a row, Kerry Washington is the only black woman to appear on the list, after nabbing the number 8 spot for her role on the hit ABC show, Scandal, which brought in $11 million for her over the past year.
Fellow ABC star, Ellen Pompeo brought in $23.5 million for her role in "Grey's Anatomy", (3rd spot), a figure far higher than Washington's while "Modern Family" star Sofia Vergara, who earned $42.5 million earned the top position.
The earnings were calculated from June 2017 to June 2018, and together, the world's 10 highest-paid TV actresses earned a combined $168.5 million during that period, an increase from last year's $156.5 million.
"All earnings estimates are from June 1, 2017, through June 1, 2018. Figures are pretax; fees for agents, managers and lawyers are not deducted. Earnings estimates are based on data from Nielsen, Box Office Mojo and IMDB, as well as interviews with industry insiders," Forbes said.
Below are the World's Highest-Paid Actresses 2018
1. Sofia Vergara
Earnings: $42.5 million
Primary Show: Modern Family
2. Kaley Cuoco
$24.5 million
Big Bang Theory
3. Ellen Pompeo
$23.5 million
Grey's Anatomy
4. Mariska Hargitay
$13 million
Law & Order: SVU
5. Julie Bowen
$12.5 million
Modern Family
6. (tie) Mayim Bialik
$12 million
Big Bang Theory
7. (tie) Melissa Rauch
$12 million
Big Bang Theory
8. Kerry Washington
$11 million
9. Claire Danes
$9 million
10. Pauley Perrette
$8.5 million
Though Washington was able to earn more than "Homeland" star Claire Danes, who took home $9 million, and former "NCIS" star Pauley Perrette, who earned $8.5 million, the fact that she is the only black person on the list has raised concerns about production companies not paying the current crop of black actresses enough to make it on lists such as this.
It is these rankings that will influence their future jobs and boost their career, so a second look must be given to their situation, industry watchers have said.
It is unfortunate that even the Black women who are believed to have more opportunities in acting are not making as much as their white counterparts.
Black actress, Taraji P. Henson highlighted this in her memoir Around the Way Girl where she described being paid a lowly six-figure and was even forced to pay for her own hotel costs for her role in The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, while others like Cate Blanchett and Brad Pitt received incomes in the millions, Refinery29 reported.
She said that she didn't widely talk about it because "there are way more talented black actresses than there are intelligent, meaningful roles for them, and we're consistently charged with diving for the crumbs of the scraps, lest we starve."


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The Manitoba government declared a state of emergency on Saturday after a powerful storm dumped heavy rain, freezing rain, snow and wind to southern portions of the province this week.
Amid the early winter blast, Manitoba Hydro is trying to restore electricity to thousands of residents after numerous trees and branches – many still covered in leaves – fell onto power lines with winds gusting up to 100 km/h.
The storm was so bad it forced the temporary closure of the Trans Canada Highway from Winnipeg to the Saskatchewan border.
Southern Manitoba got blasted after a Colorado Low moved in from the United States where it brought dramatic temperature drops and heavy snow to the Great Plains states.
The next concern for local emergency measures officials will be flooding as the snow melts given the rising temperatures forecasted over the next few days.
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A few weeks ago they drank and discussed our beer, De Bij. Alex explained what the beer is, what spontaneous fermentation is, what Méthode Traditionnelle is, etc. Then this was the conversation they had after:
Michael: It's great, I mean, now that you bring up the actual Belgian beer, I want to know what something like these, the other pedigrees, the actual Belgian beers taste like just to get a reference point because, like, I feel like, you know, even just taking this for what it is, it's great. You know, and like I want to know this style, you know, this "geuze", is it allowed to call itself a geuze?
Alex: We can call it on this program, but I can guarantee you somebody [will be mad].
Michael: This liquid, taken for itself, is fantastic. I mean, it's just one of those things that, now I'm sort of thinking back to myself "am I stupid for liking this knowing that there is something else out there that may be technically better?" Ya know, no, because it's good. It's good for what it is and there are other styles that attempt to do this and don't get anywhere near it, you know, because they don't really care about origin of it and the heritage of it.
This is what we set out to do. To create something that pointed people back to traditional Belgian lambic. It was really cool (and somewhat vindicating if I'm honest) to hear someone wanting to seek out and learn more about this Belgian style because of our beer. It is my, and everyone who joined Méthode Traditionnelle, hope that the term "lambic" still means something in 20 years.


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Teaching English in Jinan
Jinan is the capital, as well as one of the largest cities in the Shandong Province of Eastern China. The area in which the present city is located has been inhabited for more than 4000 years and has played an important role in the history of the region,
The city of Jinan has a very rich historical and cultural background. Many of the greatest minds in China's long history hailed from Jinan, including Zou Yan (who developed the concepts of Yin-Yang and the Five Elements) as well as Confucius (the great philosopher who established his influential teachings and values into Confucianism).
The present city of Jinan has evolved into a major modern national administrative, economic, and transportation hub. However, it is a city that maintains a strong connection to its long and significant past.. As such, Jinan combines the best aspects of traditionalism and innovation: on the one hand, it is increasingly modernizing, with many large skyscrapers dominating the cityscape and a subway system in development; on the other, it promotes its historical influence by encouraging people the world around the visit the famous cultural sites such as its many artesian springs and Buddhist shrines.
City Statistics
- Population: 6.8 million
- Public Transportation: Many bus routes and taxi cabs
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- The city of Jinan was also the historical center of Buddhist culture for the entire Shandong Province, with many such sites commonly located in the Licheng County to the south-east of the city center. Mount Tai (one of China's five sacred mountains and an important site for religious ceremonies) is located south of Jinan.
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Design and the Law: Opportunity and Constraint (Feb 2014, Chicago USA)
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Product designers, graphic designers, and fashion designers all work within the constraints of a constellation of state, national, and international laws and standards governing patents, trademarks, copyrights, copylefts, licensing, product configurations, color specifications, rules of origin, trade agreements, labor conditions, liability, accessibility, environmental protection, and so on. Although legal scholars have written extensively on these issues, relatively few humanistic scholars of design (among them Lawrence Busch, Howell John Harris, Sarah S. Lochlann Jain, Otakar Macel, Frederic J. Schwartz, and T'ai Smith) have examined how laws and standards have shaped manufacturers', clients', and designers' decision-making and creative processes, and, in turn, how these groups' practices have reshaped the law. This session therefore seeks papers that address the ways in which laws and standards have shaped or constrained the manufacture, configuration, or circulation of consumer products, graphics, and garments (or vice versa), either in the past or present. Both traditional scholarly analyses and first-person "constraint narratives" by designers are welcome.
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Carol Burnett, SAG Lifetime Achievement Awardee, Talks Career, Costumes and Her Gown Designed by Longtime Friend Bob Mackie
Carol Burnett talks about her career and her longtime friendship with designer Bob Mackie
At this Saturday's Screen Actors Guild Awards, the recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award won't be just a movie star: She's a performer who's brought her presence to TV, to movies and to the stage. It's Carol Burnett, who is perhaps most famous for starring on 11 seasons (and nearly 300 episodes) of The Carol Burnett Show.
Speaking to PEOPLE this week, Burnett said she was thrilled to receive the honor. "To borrow a word that my friend Julie Andrews taught me, I was gobsmacked," Burnett said of her reaction to learning the news. "I have never used that word before, but it's the perfect one for how I felt. I was just totally thrown."
And because any actress appearing at a high-profile awards show needs to look her best, Burnett knew exactly whom to ask to design a dress for the occasion: Bob Mackie, the iconic Hollywood designer, her longtime friend and the man who designed every one of the costumes she and her fellow performers wore on The Carol Burnett Show. "He's one of my dearest friends. And I told him, 'If you're busy, I totally understand,' but I wasn't going to ask anybody else first," she said.
Burnett is the first to sing the praises of Mackie, who's attending the show as well and sitting at Burnett's table. By Burnett's estimates, Mackie designed over 17,000 outfits for the show – from the famous "curtain rod" Scarlett O'Hara dress from the Gone with the Wind parody to every outfit seen on every supporting character in every other sketch.
But the SAG Awards dress, an emerald green evening suit, is far from the first piece of formal wear that Mackie has created for Burnett. In addition to the many costumes he designed for Burnett's other characters, he also designed the evening gowns she'd wear in the opening to every episode, in which she'd welcome the audience.
"She'd always come out in something dressy. And for that moment, she'd be herself. In the rest of the show, she be in one crazy outfit after another, but that opening was a way for the audience to get to know her as herself," Mackie recalled. "We thought of it as a friendly evening gown – something she could be relaxed in. Very often her evening clothes had pockets in them, so she'd have something to do with her hands, because in the beginning she was intimidated by wearing evening clothes and talking to the audience. But then she got used it. A lady could get used to that sort of thing."
Burnett praised Mackie for being able to design clothes that could be elegant or comedic, and in fact actually using his clothes helped her develop some of the characters she'd play on the show. For example, it was a baggy-bottomed skirt of Mackie's that helped Burnett devise Mrs. Wiggins, her ditzy secretary character.
"Bob actually has a great comedic mind," she said. "Originally, Tim [Conway] write Mrs. Wiggins as a doddering old lady, and Bob pointed out that I'd played a bunch of old ladies and suggested I play her as this bimbo. So he put me in a tight black skirt and blond wig and push-up bra. But when I put the skirt on, it was tight in the knees and it dragged in the behind. And I said, 'Bob, you're going to have to take that in because I'm flat in my behind.' But he said, 'No, stick your behind into it.' And that became her walk – that swaybacked walk with my butt sticking out, and that totally contributed to the character. He'd do that with so many of the sketches we were doing."
Mackie said he's thrilled on Burnett's behalf that she's getting recognized for a lifetime of ace performances. "Usually with these awards, it's a John Wayne or a George Clooney who's getting recognized. But Carol, she's done everything. There are really few women to fall into the category she's in, so I was very excited for her. I thought, 'That's lovely. Thank God somebody thought of her to do that.' "
The two both recall their first formal introduction: in 1967 at Burnett's house. She had seen a Las Vegas show by Mitzi Gaynor for which Mackie had done the costumes, and so Burnett asked him to come to her house to meet her to talk about designing costumes for her show, which was soon to begin production. "And so the doorbell rang, and I opened the door, and I thought it was a mistake because he looked like he was 12 years old," Burnett recalled with a laugh. "He had this beautiful baby face. And he came in and was just adorable, and we hit it off and we hired him right on the spot."
Mackie recalled the meeting as well: "I rang the doorbell and there she was, just the way you wanted her to be – very lovely and completely herself. That s just the way she is."
Burnett explained that she soon stopped requiring Mackie to submit sketches for approval. Within a few weeks of production of the show, she trusted his instincts implicitly. "I just knew I would love everything," she said. "And when we'd have dancers as guests – you know, like Chita Rivera or Juliet Prowse or Gwen Verdon – they loved what he did too, because he'd put them in something that made them look terrific but that they could also move in."
Asked if he can name off outfits he'd designed for Burnett that he counts as favorites, Mackie is modest, saying only "Anytime somebody walks out and the audience goes crazy and laughs and applauds, that is pretty good." But he acknowledges that the Gone With the Wind dress remains a fan favorite. "It was something I just threw together, really, at the last minute because I couldn t figure out for the life of me what to do to get that laugh," he said. "Now, when people are watching the actual Gone With the Wind and Scarlett walks out in the real dress, people laugh, and they say they re laughing because of Carol Burnett. And that s really the craziest thing, but it's true: Now a lot of people have seen the Carol Burnett sketch before they ve seen actual movie."
(The dress is currently on display in the Smithsonian.)
Burnett and Mackie still speak of each other so fondly, after a nearly 50-year friendship.
"I don't know anybody else who could have done what he did," Burnett said of their collaboration on her show. "It's been a nearly lifelong friendship and a professional relationship that I really treasure."
Mackie is no less keen on Burnett, and he spoke about the qualities that made her the type of actor who'd be recognized for a lifetime performing. "The thing about Carol that I learned doing costumes for her is that you can put her in anything – any wig, any costume, even something with body padding – and you always knew it was her in there. That's the sign of a true star. The personality is just so strong. She's wildly talented and funny, but she's also very real – onstage and offstage, she's herself."


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Friday, May 23, 2008
Going Freakazoid With A Big Smile
I am utterly exhausted yet I have the biggest smile on my face! There are all sorts of crazy emotions that keep running through me and I am just going for the ride. I worry about the flight and if I get there on time. I worry that I will get to Tokmok and will not be allowed to see Dylan. I worry that my husband won't get his flight preferences. I worry that I will gain weight sitting on a plane. I know, I am a freakazoid but I am happy to admit it.
I must have just been so overwhelmed this last couple of weeks. Ever since I booked my flight (even before knowing we can take Dylan home on the same trip), I've been going 1000 miles an hour trying to get EVERYTHING on this wanna be exhaustive list done. I tried to tie all the loose ends at work so that I don't leave anyone in the dark. I made a list of things I had to buy for this trip. I arranged all the necessary documents for single parent pickup only to get the good news on Monday that we can actually pick him up. So, back to the first version of paperwork I went. Last weekend was also jam packed with activity. Kayaking on Saturday, running Bay to Breakers on Sunday. Well, all this came with steep price. I LOST MY WEDDING RINGS AND I AM TRULY BUMMED ABOUT THAT!!! I put the rings in my pocket on Saturday because carrying kayaks with rings digging into your hand just hurt too much. I took them off and put them in my shorts pocket. Then I changed out of them out in the parking lot and probably dropped them there. I can't recall who said this to me but it went along the line of "that's ok, you lost your rings but you are getting a baby". I guess that person is right. Even though the rings have tremendous sentimental value, it is no match to the fact that a month from now, he'll be home.
The outpouring of love is incredible. I guess I sometimes forget that I'm not in my own little world all by myself. There are so many people who have been waiting for Dylan to come home, even people I don't know and have never met. My co-worker's husband, another co-worker's mom, my blog friends are always asking about Dylan. My friends are also only slightly less excited than me. The day I posted the good news, I got several instant comments, emails and phone calls. Both Bill and my family are going bonkers about the news. They are all rooting for this kid to come home to his forever family. I am just stunned at the community around me.
Our friend Lamar made me a care package and gave it to me over my last sushi dinner for a very long time (oh yes, I worry about that too). It had all sorts of goodies like chocolates, trail mix, tuna, wasabi peas, red vine, dried fruits, etc. etc. I just love her. I will think of her when I eat good chocolates instead of crappy airplane food. She is excited for us and this adventure and we are thrilled to have her to share this with also.
So before I go to bed on this last night before I fly out, I contemplate this journey and where we have been. It has been a long road to Dylan but all that doesn't seem to matter now. I have a huge smile on my face and my heart is all a twitter knowing that our journey with Dylan is just beginning. Good night everyone. Until the next post from Kyrgyzstan...
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- Margaret and Tom said...
We did have Sushi on our breakfast bar at the Golden Dragon. I was not brave enough to eat it, but Tom did with no reprocussions...he said it was ok. I am so happy as I write this you are on your way, probably trying to stomach crappy airplane food...happy mom's day to you a little late, can't wait to see those smiles when you post Dylan pics :)
- May 24, 2008 at 8:54 AM
- Lisa Brotherton said...
I am so happy for you, Ivy. Can't wait to see you guys together!
I am sorry about your rings. We are so attached to our syntamental items and none more so that a wedding ring. But, as your friend said in comparison to what you are gaing this week... WOW! Our children are our real treasures! I am thankful you are going to gather yours!!! Godspeed!
- May 24, 2008 at 5:47 PM
- Gen 's Family Story said...
Woo hoo, can't wait to hear from you from Kyrgyz!! My hubby lost his wedding ring the first trip we went to the boundary waters, went swimming in the cooler water and it slipped right off his hand into the deep blue lake...
So happy for you, and I freaked just like you did:)
- May 24, 2008 at 8:25 PM
- Gen 's Family Story said...
ps be glad you went kayaking, it might be awhile till you go again!
- May 24, 2008 at 8:33 PM
- Michele said...
We are so happy for you. Your trip has been a long time coming, but it is so good to take. Love every moment & love that baby with all your heart. I can't wait to see your photos. I bet he has grown so big. Take care!
Have a safe trip!!!
- May 25, 2008 at 7:13 PM
- Suzanne said...
I'm smiling reading this post, Ivy! I'm guessing you're in Tokmok by now. I hope all the flights went well and that your luggage arrived at the same time you did. Can't wait for your next post!
- May 25, 2008 at 8:45 PM
- Lisa Brotherton said...
Ivy, I hope John can help you get your internet soon! We can hardly wait for an update!
I want you to know we are thinking about you and Dylan!
- May 26, 2008 at 7:27 AM
- Monica said...
Oh my that STINKS about your RINGS. I'm sorry that happened to you. You should get to have your rings AND your baby but I do understand that such a loss couldn't have happened at a happier time for you. Wishing you a safe, easy and happy journey to and from Kyrgyzstan. I'm one of those strangers out here SO looking forward to you bringing your baby home. I just can't wait to see pics of him with you at HOME!
Best wishes!!!
- May 27, 2008 at 10:26 AM
I am go happy for you Ivy and Bill. Your post brought tears to my eyes. We cant wait to see Dylan back at home. Wishing you my very best.
Rashell Fong
- May 27, 2008 at 10:32 AM


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I lost my wireless connection again. It is very early Saturday morning I haven't gone to bed yet so I still feel like it is Friday night. At any rate, Joel was finally released on Thursday. He is doing much better but his appetite is still really small; he has lost 3.3 pounds in a week.
Taliah came to the hospital for the support group she is going to, and then she slept over with Joel and I at RMH. We had to wait till after 5pm for all the paperwork to be signed, but as soon as it was, we headed over to RMH. We set the room up with some cozy spots, had supper and then came back to our room and watched movies.
We were up early and headed off to the hospital. Taliah got to see a fair bit of Joel's routine; checking weight and height, blood oxygen, blood pressure and temperature. Then he had blood work and was hooked up to his I.V. Taliah came with us up to the O.R. where we pick up the anesthesiology team and then we headed over to the General. She got to stay with us while they put Joel under. She told me after, she didn't even see how they did it, because it happened so quickly.
Next, we headed back over to the Children's hospital and had some breakfast. I then took Taliah over to the Medical Day Unit where she hung out with the Child Life Specialists and other children waiting for treatment; she coloured a ton of pictures. I went to the recovery room to sit with Joel while he woke up.
Once back, Joel had to have his port needle taken out and his vitals rechecked before heading out. While Taliah was waiting, she made a friend with a little guy having maintenance chemo. We then went and had a snack at the coffee shop before heading back to RMH to pack up.
Dave and the rest of the kids came to pick us up. On our way home we stopped in at my parents house; Joel had a gift for my Mom. We had been in the gift shop, and he saw this ring with a huge blingy gem on it. He was totally amazed by his find and thought it was beautiful; he told me he wanted to buy it for Gramma!!! I looked at the price $2.99; I figured we could afford this amazing treasure, so we bought it. If you know my Mom, you'll have to ask to see her new 'Bling from Joel!'
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"It is the next giant leap into quicksand."
It is the year 2026. A veteran astronaut, Nicole Mann, leads her crew of four through a hatch from the Orion spacecraft onto a small space station near the Moon. Inside, it smells something like a new car. Outside, all is splendor. Below the station, half of the Moon reflects the sunlight—shimmering, silvery, and silent. The depths of space blacken the other half of the orb. In the distance, a blue and green Earth also basks in the Sun's glow. Humanity's cradle and its future among the stars share the vista.
The 49-year-old Mann, who goes by the call sign "Duke," begins a series of communications checks. There is a two-second delay before Mission Control responds with cheers and high fives. For decades after Apollo, humans had remained confined in low-Earth orbit. No more. After Mann's crew spends a dozen days outfitting the new "Gateway" in orbit around the Moon, NASA will finally have a toehold in deep space again. From here, humans may soon go down to the lunar surface or make final preparations for missions to Mars.
Such a future scenario, at least, is what the space agency wants Congress, the White House, and the American public to imagine when envisioning a lunar space station, which NASA proposes to build in the 2020s. "I think about it as a port in space, a dry dock for activities that come and go," said Jason Crusan, a senior NASA official from headquarters overseeing development of the Gateway.
Over the last three years, Crusan and other leaders of human exploration at NASA have quietly refined plans for the Gateway and, perhaps more importantly, crafted a rationale to build the outpost near the Moon. So far, their plan has worked. Vice President Mike Pence has endorsed the Gateway, as has the new NASA administrator, Jim Bridenstine.
"There's no other architecture that I've been presented with, given the current budgets we have, that enables all of what we want to do," Bridenstine recently told Ars. "And so I came to the conclusion that the Gateway is the right approach."
NASA, too, has won over the lion's share of aerospace contractors and their vast lobbying armies by offering contracts for six different designs for the Gateway's habitat module. Moreover, agency officials have repeatedly said they would invite commercial companies like SpaceX to deliver cargo and provide other services for the station. Almost everyone stands a reasonable chance of getting a piece of the Gateway action.
This has not left much oxygen in the room for dissenters—publicly, at least. However, a few critics persist, and they raise valid questions about the lunar Gateway. Robert Zubrin, a high-profile aerospace engineer outside of NASA's policymaking process, has emerged as a chief antagonist.
"It is the next giant leap into quicksand," Zubrin argued during a recent meeting of The Mars Society. "If you wanted to send people to the Moon or Mars, would you take some of your money to build a lunar orbit space station on the way? You would not."
Zubrin and others argue that the Gateway exists not to smooth NASA's way to the Moon or Mars, but rather to provide a destination for the agency's expensive rocket, the Space Launch System, and Orion spacecraft. These vehicles, built for NASA by large aerospace firms with hundreds of subcontractors around the country, cannot presently go to the Moon or Mars. Combined, they're just not powerful enough. NASA has struggled for the better part of a decade to find something for them to do. And after wandering in the wilderness, agency leaders finally settled on the Gateway concept.
"Let's be honest about this," Zubrin said of NASA's human exploration plans. "This is not a purpose-driven program, this is a vendor-driven program. Imagine running your business to please your vendors."
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One need not regurgitate decades of space policy history to understand why NASA now espouses development of a lunar Gateway that will cost at a minimum $10 billion and almost certainly many multiples of that. Still, a little background helps.
The short synopsis is this: in 2004, George W. Bush wanted to send humans back to the Moon and on to Mars. NASA engineers, led by Administrator Mike Griffin, responded by devising a large, expensive system to accomplish this that was never properly funded. When Barack Obama became president, he canceled the human return to the Moon, because it was woefully behind schedule and unaffordable, and the president urged cancellation of Griffin's large rocket and spacecraft. Leery of losing jobs and NASA's institutional knowledge, Congress pushed back hard on Obama. While the Moon remained off the table, NASA was told to build a big rocket, now redesigned as the Space Launch System, and to continue with the Orion spacecraft.
This left a big problem. What to do with SLS and Orion? Critics came to call the SLS a "rocket to nowhere," because NASA had no clear need for it. Sure, the rocket and spacecraft could fly around the Moon, in a repeat of NASA's 1968 Apollo 8 mission, but it could not land on another world with gravity.
Eventually, the Obama administration solved this problem with a new destination, suggested by a blue-ribbon panel known as the Augustine commission. "By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first-ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space," Obama said at Florida's Kennedy Space Center in 2010. "So we'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history."
At first, this seemed like a great idea. An asteroid offered a new destination, and it also had the critical benefit of a shallow gravity well. NASA could go there without having to build expensive landers and ascent vehicles, which it could not afford due to SLS and Orion's outsized costs (more than $3 billion a year).
Unfortunately, after searching for a few years, scientists could not find a suitable asteroid that came close enough to Earth for astronauts to reach it in a timely manner, as the Orion vehicle could only support a crew for 21 days in deep space. NASA concluded that it lacked the budget and tools to send humans to an asteroid by 2025—or really, any date for a long, long time.
So around the middle of this decade, the agency's clever engineers devised a plan that was both feasible and technically met the president's goal of visiting an asteroid by 2025. While elegant in these regards, the mission was something of a sham. The "Asteroid Redirect Mission" called for the agency to fly a robotic spacecraft out into the Solar System, grab an SUV-sized boulder off the surface of an asteroid, and bring it back to the vicinity of the Moon. Astronauts would then visit it in 2025 via Orion. It was clear this mission would be canceled long before Obama left the White House.
Therefore, around three years ago, with NASA having spent the better part of $20 billion (and counting) to develop SLS and Orion, the agency still needed something to do with these vehicles.
Over time, engineers at Johnson Space Center, with input from other centers, devised the lunar Gateway. Why not? NASA already knew how to design and build a space station, as it had done with the International Space Station. The new outpost could be placed far enough from the Moon's gravity well such that SLS and Orion could be used to build the Gateway, and when that was done, NASA would be guaranteed an annual SLS rocket launch to deliver crews there for 30- to 60-day missions.
The Gateway solved NASA's political and technical problems. Therefore as the asteroid mission died an early, unmourned death, the Gateway ascended. This plan provided NASA's legions of contractors something to work toward, and Gateway elements could be designed such that only the SLS and its larger cargo capability—rather than significantly cheaper, albeit less powerful, rockets—could deliver them into lunar orbit.
All NASA engineers had to do now was come up with a practical use for it.
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Soon, they did just that. NASA began holding academic meetings with scientists to seek their input for what a stable platform in lunar orbit could do for them. They worked with flight controllers and human performance experts to understand how systems could be tested on the Gateway to further understand the health effects of the deep space environment and how to build hardier systems for keeping astronauts alive during long-duration journeys to Mars. The agency also reached out to international and commercial partners for help with landers that might travel from the Gateway down to the Moon.
In early August, when Ars met with Bridenstine in Houston, we asked about his change of heart regarding the Gateway. As a Congressman, he had retained skepticism about the Gateway. The lunar ice and asteroid resources he wanted to develop, after all, weren't orbiting a few thousand kilometers from the Moon. But Bridenstine said that as he'd come to understand all of the things the lunar outpost could do for space exploration, his position had changed. "I haven't always been on the same sheet that I am right now," he explained. "Spending time at NASA has changed my view."
Because of Orion's limited maneuvering capability, measured formally as change-in-velocity or delta-v, NASA intends to position the Gateway in what is called a near-rectilinear halo orbit. This elliptical orbit brings the Gateway to within 1,500km of the lunar surface but also as far away as 70,000km. By contrast, low-lunar orbit is about 100km above the Moon's surface. (For a much longer discussion of Gateway orbit options, this paper offers a great overview).
Bridenstine, who strongly supports private companies that want to work with NASA, lower the cost of spaceflight, and devise reusable systems, said the Gateway will provide critical infrastructure near the Moon for commercial partners.
"It's not optimum for getting to the surface of the Moon, but it enables us with a low propulsion capability to stay in that orbit for a very, very long period of time," he said. "What we want to do is enable more people to have access to the lunar surface than ever before, and more people to have access to lunar orbit than ever before."
By limiting the size of the Gateway, NASA does not seek to build a second International Space Station, enormous in size, scope, and cost. That facility, easier to reach in low-Earth orbit, cost NASA and its international partners $100 billion and more than a decade of in-space construction time to build.
NASA also intends for the initial Gateway to serve as the template for a second, similar structure that could serve as a deep-space transport that would eventually take crews of people to Mars. The first Gateway, then, will serve as a testbed for the kinds of technologies needed to reach Mars. Today, for example, some components of life support systems have about a six-month average before failure. NASA would like to mature that technology to a 30-month failure for a deep space transport.
Finally, Bridenstine asserted that a Gateway, rather than a series of missions to the lunar surface, will extend NASA's influence beyond low-Earth orbit permanently into deep space.
"What we don't want to do is go to the surface of the Moon, prove that we can do it, and then be done," he said. "We want to go to stay. And I've been convinced that the Gateway allows us to take advantage of commercial and international partners in a more robust way so that we are there to stay, and it enables us to get to more parts of the Moon than ever before, and it enables us to get to Mars."
"Stuck with it"
There is nothing that Bob Zubrin wants to do more than get to Mars. He has proposed all manner of space architectures that would allow NASA, with the help of commercial companies, to send humans directly to Mars. But Zubrin has bowed to the desires of the White House, Congress, and now NASA to focus its efforts on going to the Moon first.
"NASA's human spaceflight program needs a goal, and that goal should be Mars," he said. "But if they're not yet ready to take on that challenge, I can offer some sympathy for that." Maybe, he mused, NASA needs to get back the confidence it had during the 1960s and the glory days of Apollo.
However, Zubrin and other critics view the Gateway as a cul-de-sac that would divert billions of dollars in funding and steal a decade or more in time from landing on the surface of another world. While it is true that NASA may establish a foothold in deep space, of what use is such a place if it doesn't move NASA closer to prolonged human stays on the Moon or Mars?
"It is imposing a liability on the program, and then we'll be stuck with it," he said. "This thing will cost many billions a year. Here you have NASA wanting to escape from the International Space Station because of its budgetary requirements. So they're proposing to build another one?"
Zubrin has proposed an alternative to the White House, which he calls "Moon Direct," emphasizing maximum access to the lunar surface, minimum development and recurring cost, minimum schedule, and minimum risk. He does not propose to have all the answers (OK, maybe he thinks he does), but his point is that he believes there are better ways to go about returning to the Moon using mostly existing technology.
NASA's Gateway approach, he said, doesn't ease NASA's pathway back to the Moon. Rather, Zubrin believes it solves the desires of Congress and the agency to keep current contractors fed and to find something for the SLS rocket and Orion spacecraft to do.
"The real problem with the lunar-orbit Gateway isn't that it's useless, or it will cost lots of money, or that it will continue to cost lots of money for decades, taking money away from things we really want to do," he said. "The real problem is the form of thinking it represents. That instead of spending money to do things, we need to do things to spend money."
Delta-v toll
There is an argument to be made that the Gateway actually makes it substantially more difficult to return to the Moon or to go on to Mars.
Delta-v governs what is possible in spaceflight and what is not. To reach low-Earth orbit, the first stage of a rocket burns fuel like hell and expends the majority of the booster's energy in doing so. From that point, it's up to the smaller second or sometimes even smaller third stage of a rocket to push its payload beyond low-Earth orbit (LEO) toward a destination in deep space.
Because these upper stages are smaller and less powerful and the thrusters on spacecraft themselves even less capable, it is imperative to minimize the amount of maneuvering needed to reach one's destination.
In the case of going from LEO to the lunar surface, the delta-v required is 6.1 km/second (it takes 4.1 km/s to get from LEO to low-lunar orbit and another 2.0 to get from there down to the surface). By contrast, to go from LEO to the Gateway's proposed halo orbit—and then to the lunar surface—requires a delta-v of 6.85km/s.
Put another way, a spacecraft could leave LEO, reach the surface of the Moon, and return directly to Earth for a total delta-v cost of 9.1km/s. To do the same mission through the Gateway, both coming and going, requires a delta-v of 10.65km/s, a 17 percent increase. This is one reason why Zubrin has taken to calling the lunar Gateway a "toll booth," because it adds significantly to the energies needed to reach the Moon (or Mars, if spacecraft first went to the Gateway and then on to the Red Planet).
In this case, NASA isn't just paying the toll with the Gateway, in terms of delta-v, it's also paying to build the toll booth itself. Instead of spending the next decade going directly to the Moon, NASA will use that time to build a station near the Moon that will require extra energy to get down to the Moon.
There are a few other prominent people in the aerospace community willing to go public with similar concerns about the Gateway. At a meeting of the National Space Council this summer, with Vice President Mike Pence present, former astronaut Terry Virts echoed these sentiments. He has continued speaking out and hopes that if the Gateway does get built, it could at least serve a more useful purpose.
"I fully support the new strategy of going to the Moon first and using that as a proving ground to eventually send humans to Mars and beyond," Virts told Ars. "But the original Gateway concept was conceived to give SLS and Orion a mission, not develop technologies we need for Moon or Mars exploration. The current concept of operations for Gateway will make getting to the lunar surface more expensive without furthering critical exploration technologies, all while consuming the vast majority of the human exploration budget."
Virts believes that one possible way the Gateway vehicle could prove useful would be to have it orbit between the Earth and Moon, in a similar way that future transfer vehicles will orbit between the Earth and Mars. That may provide a way to test some important operational concepts, such as high-speed rendezvous and transfer vehicle operations that NASA will need for deep space.
Behind the scenes, some members of Congress do worry the Gateway will indefinitely delay human missions to Mars. Additionally, some senior space advisers to the Trump administration are also raising doubts about the Gateway. But it is not clear whether President Trump himself has been fully made aware that NASA will not come close to the surface of the Moon during his presidency. And because the Gateway has strong momentum behind it, at this point it would take a strong presidential intervention to stop development.
Pressing on
NASA is pressing ahead with the Gateway concept, in its halo orbit, with a sense of urgency. This week, agency leaders confirmed that they intend to launch the first element of the outpost in 2022, which will provide power and propulsion. The next launch will bring two components: a package comprising ESPRIT, a module proposed by an international partner that includes a science airlock, fuel storage and refueling, additional communications capabilities, and external payload accommodations; and a US utilization module that includes a small pressurized volume with docking ports, external robotic interfaces, and consumables.
These components, combined with Orion's life support capabilities, can support the crew for up to 15 days on the Gateway. These components could be ready for a launch as early as 2023, although NASA seems unlikely to have a rocket ready by then.
Such a flight would require a more powerful version of the SLS rocket, complete with a brand-new upper stage, to allow both Orion and the new Gateway components to reach the halo orbit. It seems improbable that this SLS variant will be ready by 2024 or even 2025.
"We are very much aggressively going after the development and deployment of the Gateway," Crusan said at a late August meeting of NASA's Advisory Council. "Meaning very fast development schedules. I don't think we should change that. I think we should be aggressive on these things and set goals and tailoring our acquisition processes so that we can get to the quickness and pace that we'd like to get to."
This type of language signals that, while NASA aspires to the stated launch dates, if anything goes wrong they probably can't hold to them. And in big aerospace development programs, things invariably go wrong. Reasonably, it seems unlikely that the Gateway in its original configuration, with a large habitat module and a separate airlock, would be completed much before 2030.
Luckily for Nicole Mann, a talented member of NASA's 2013 class of astronauts who might be chosen for one of the first missions into deep space, she has other things to do in the meantime. Recently, NASA selected her to fly on the maiden flight of Boeing's Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station in 2019. Perhaps one day, she will visit another station, much farther from Earth.
Or, depending on how the space policy battles in Washington, DC, play out, perhaps not.
Sources: • Arstechnica
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A Sean Miller double helped Curzon Ashton maintain their unbeaten start to the season with an impressive 3-1 victory over Darlington.
Three goals in a crazy five minute spell at the end of the first half gave Nash a one-goal lead at the break with Miller pouncing twice either side of Tyrone O'Neill's equaliser.
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