#1976 American cup

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Bart: “…and that’s how I met your mother.”

[fromthedust]

portrayals of bats in the 20th & 21st centuries

Bat Cabaret Sign - France - wrought iron, rolled iron, carved and embossed, green glass

pair of bats - ivory seal - China

Rene Lalique (French, 1860-1945) - bat brooch - 1900

bat design - Bijutsukai (Art World) - vol. 2 - 1901-1902

Rene Lalique (French, 1860-1945) - bat ring - 1901

Rene Lalique (French, 1860-1945) - bat pendant - 1901

Ferdinand Erhart (French, active 1891-1933) - Bat Belt Buckle - cast silver, carved and oxidized - 1908

Bat Brooch - France - c.1908

Henri Husson (French, 1852-1933) - Cup with Bat - c.1909

Ohara Koson (Japanese, 1877-1945) - Bats In Moonlight - c.1910

Harrison Cady (American, 1877-1970) - illustration for Mother West Wind Why Stories by Thornton Burgess - 1915

John Buckland Wright (British, 1897-1954) - illustration for Le Sphinx by Iwan Gilkin - 1919

Heinrich Kley (German, 1863-1945) - illustration for Der Orchideengarten (The Orchid Garden) - 1919

Bats and Crescent Moon - incense box - Japan - early 20th century

Weird Tales - October 1933

Black Bat Firecrackers

Edward Gorey (American, 1925-2000) - Bat & Ballerina - pin - New York City Ballet - c.1970s

Edward Gorey (American, 1925-2000) - Bats & Bicycles stencil illustration from The Broken Spoke - 1976

Edward Gorey (American, 1925-2000) - cover illustration for A Clutch of Vampires by Raymond T. McNally

Three of Bats - Tarot Card - 1996

Richard Cooluris (American, working in San Francisco) - Perseus and the Bat - mixed media painting on wood panel - 2016

Yegor Smirnov (working in Montreal) - Bat Ring - 3d-printed and casted in silver - 2016

Stephanie Inagaki (working in Los Angeles) - Trinity - charcoal & gold foil

Adam Binder (British, b.1970) - Bats - carved ebony & carved ivory

Wayan Tuges (luthier working in Indonesia) - Raised by Bats - Commemorative custom Blueberry guitar for Aurelio Voltair - 2020

[yourdailyqueer]

Molly Cameron

Gender: Transgender woman

Sexuality: N/A

DOB: 28 August 1976

Ethnicity: White - American

Occupation: Prof cyclo-cross athlete, activist

Note: First openly transgender athlete to compete in a (Men's Category) UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup

[facts-i-just-made-up]

The Ancient Cup Of Garth-Gog-Gamog

At the center of a treacherous island in the center of an impassible swamp in the center of a forbidden forest at the northmost tip of Britain lies the ancient cup of Garth-Gog-Gamog.

A direct inspiration for Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings,” legend has it that the cup was forged by the demon ruler Garth-Gog-Gamog in the time before time existed. Whoever drinks from the cup is said to gain the powers of Garth-Gog-Gamog herself, including the power to summon demons, the power to control insects, the power to cause earthquakes, and the power to always win at Scrabble.

Because of its power, the cup was hidden away for over 6,000 years by order of Britain’s then-prime-minister Tony Blair. The cup was only rediscovered in 1976 when three American wanderers stumbled upon it by accident. Only two of the group returned, the third is said to have drunk from the unholy cup and was never heard from again. Rumors abound that they became the new demon lord who will end the universe, or that they were deemed not-evil-enough and died on the spot, or that he is in fact ongoing GOP atrocity Donald Trump, who has never lost a Scrabble game despite his total lack of spelling ability and ineptitude at following simple rules.

If the last hypothesis is true, it would be only the second time the GOP has selected an ancient demon lord as its candidate, the first being Lethnor, Imp of Thunder in 1980, who lost the nomination to Ronald Reagan by 2 votes. Lethnor, Imp of Thunder currently hosts The Lethnor Hour on late night CBS.

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[foryouwereinmysong]

Do you think John and Paul ever saw each other again after ‘76? Or even talked on the phone? I know Paul says they did but every so often doubt creeps in and I start wondering if Paul isn’t just making up stories to convince himself that they were still friends. Your thoughts?

Thank you for the ask! It made me look back at John's last interviews and some of Paul's earliest after the murder. I don't think Paul made up the phone calls, because he has been consistent in talking about them since the early 80s. In his interviews shortly after John's death he talks about it quite detailed and I don't think he would make something like this up. For other speculations about their last meeting I found this great blogspot post: https://mccartnet.blogspot.com/2012/04/when-was-lennon-and-mccartneys-last.html

What I do wonder is, if they maybe saw each other for the last time in 1978. John mentions in 1980 he thinks that the "turning Paul away incident" was like 2 years ago and Geoffrey Giuliano claims that John, Yoko, Paul and Linda went to see the movie "Pretty Baby" together, which was released in April 1978. (The lost Lennon diaries) - but people say he's not a reliable source... But maybe John didn't turn Paul away the day after the SNL evening (24th of April 1976), but after the movie night? But then again Sean was already a toddler in 1978...

WELL if somebody did more research on this, I would love to know, but I'll end it here, because I think in the end there won't be a really satisfying answer. And maybe the important part is that the love they had for each other never went away either way.

(Newsweek, 1982, by Jim Miller)  Q: "Did you see much of him before he died?"

PAUL: "I saw him quite a bit. Always, the problem was talking business. Whenever we got into business, we got into an argument. It wasn't a pleasant framework for a relationship. When Sean (John and Yoko's son) was first born, I visited him a few times at the Dakota (Lennon's apartment house in New York). And then it had gone snotty. I used to turn up without calling him. One time, he got annoyed with me. He said, 'Well, look, man... Why do you just keep turning up here and surprise us? Why don't you just call first?' And I took that the wrong way. After that, I don't think I did see him. I phoned a few times. As long as we were talking about family, about life, it was good. The last time I spoke to him, I got off the phone and it felt like old friends again. I've talked to Yoko since then, and she's said to me, 'You know, he really was quite fond of you.' I think we were pretty close. But, sometimes, with brothers, you argue. They can be the most intense arguments, too."

(Playboy, 1984, by Joan Goodman) PLAYBOY: "Do you remember your last conversation with John?"

PAUL: "Yes. That is a nice thing, a consoling factor for me, because I do feel it was sad that we never actually sat down and straightened our differences out. But fortunately for me, the last phone conversation I ever had with him was really great, and we didn't have any kind of blowup. It could have easily been one of the other phone calls, when we blew up at each other and slammed the phone down."

PLAYBOY: "Do you remember what you talked about?"

PAUL: "It was just a very happy conversation about his family, my family. Enjoying his life very much; Sean was a very big part of it. And thinking about getting on with his career. I remember he said, 'Oh, God, I'm like Aunt Mimi, padding round here in me dressing gown' ...robe, as he called it, cuz he was picking up the American vernacular... 'feeding the cats in me robe and cooking and putting a cup of tea on. This housewife wants a career!' It was that time for him. He was about to launch Double Fantasy."

(Playboy, September 1980, by David Sheff) PLAYBOY: "Aside from the millions you've been offered for a reunion concert, how did you feel about producer Lorne Michaels' generous offer of $3200 for appearing together on 'Saturday Night Live' a few years ago?"

LENNON: "Oh, yeah. Paul and I were together watching that show. He was visiting us at our place in the Dakota. We were watching it and almost went down to the studio, just as a gag. We nearly got into a cab, but we were actually too tired."

PLAYBOY: "How did you and Paul happen to be watching TV together?"

LENNON: "That was a period when Paul just kept turning up at our door with a guitar. I would let him in, but finally I said to him, 'Please call before you come over. It's not 1956 and turning up at the door isn't the same anymore. You know, just give me a ring.' He was upset by that, but I didn't mean it badly. I just meant that I was taking care of a baby all day and some guy turns up at the door... But, anyway, back on that night, he and Linda walked in and he and I were just sitting there, watching the show, and we went, 'Ha-ha, wouldn't it be funny if we went down?' but we didn't."

PLAYBOY: "Was that the last time you saw Paul?"

LENNON: "Yes, but I didn't mean it like that." (Newsweek, 29th of September 1980, by Barbara Graustark) Q: "Paul McCartney's theory is that you became a recluse because you'd done everything - but be yourself."

JOHN: "What the hell does that mean? Paul didn't know what I was doing - he was as curious as everyone else. It's ten years since I really communicated with him. I know as much about him as he does about me, which is zilch. About two years ago, he turned up at the door. I said, 'Look, do you mind ringin' first? I've just had a hard day with the baby. I'm worn out and you're walkin' in with a damn guitar!"

[film-classics]

Katharine Hepburn - The Greatest Female Star

Katharine Houghton Hepburn (born in Hartford, Connecticut on May 12, 1907) was an iconic American actress who holds the record for the most wins for an actor in Oscar history and is considered to be "The Greatest Female Star" of classic Hollywood.

Raised in Connecticut by wealthy, progressive parents of English and Scottish heritage, Hepburn began to act while at Bryn Mawr College, where she graduated with a degree in history and philosophy. Favorable reviews of her on Broadway got the attention of Hollywood, where director George Cukor pushed for her to sign a contract with RKO at 1932.

Her early films brought her fame, but this was followed by commercial failures. She masterminded her comeback, buying out her contract and acquiring rights to The Philadelphia Story, which she sold on the condition that she be the star. The film was a success and landed her a 3rd Oscar nomination in 1940.

She continued to have acclaimed films, including her last Oscar for On Golden Pond (1981). In the 1970s, she began appearing on TV alongside her film and stage roles. She made her final screen appearance at 87. After a period of inactivity and ill health, she died from cardiac arrest at 96 at the Hepburn family home in Fenwick.

Legacy:

Won four Academy Awards for Best Actress: Morning Glory (1933), Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967), The Lion in Winter (1968), On Golden Pond (1982) - and nominated for eight (1936, 1941, 1943, 1952, 1956, 1957, 1960, 1963), holding the record for the longest time span between first and last nominations, at 48 years

Won the 1975 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Special - Drama or Comedy and nominated for six (1974, 1979, 1986, 1993)

Nominated for 11 Golden Globe Awards (1952, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1967, 1968, 1981, 1992); two Tony Awards (1970, 1982); the 1994 Screen Actors Guild Award; and the 1988, 1992 Grammy Best Spoken Word Album

Received two BAFTA Best Actress awards (1969, 1983) and five nominations (1953, 1956, 1958)

Won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1934 Venice Film Festival; Best Actress at 1962 Cannes Film Festival; and the Special Prize of the Jury at 1984 Montréal World Film Festival

Won the 1940 New York Film Critics Circle Best Actress, the 1965 Mexican Cinema Journalists Best Foreign Actress, and the 1973 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Best Actress

Won three Golden Laurel Awards for Top Female Dramatic Performance in 1960, 1963, and 1970, and nominated as Top Female Star in 1970 and 1971

Received the David di Donatello Award for Best Foreign Actress for  Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)

Won Golden Apple Awards for Female Star of the Year in 1975 and 1982; and Favorite Motion Picture Actress at the People's Choice Awards in 1976 and 1983, and nominated in 1975, 1977

Received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Screen Actors Guild in 1979

Purchased war bonds worth #30K to support the Hartford Red Cross in 1941 and donated $10K to Hartford Hospital in 1947

Selected by Harvard University as 1958 Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year

Featured in exhibits, such as The Career of an Actress: Katharine Hepburn at the MoMA in 1969, One Life: Kate, A Centennial Celebration at the National Portrait Gallery in 2007, Katharine Hepburn: In Her Own Files at the NYPL in 2009, and Katharine Hepburn: Dressed for Stage and Screen at Kent State University in 2010

Supported Planned Parenthood since 1981 with the Katharine Houghton Hepburn Fund and received the Margaret Sanger Award in 1983

Inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 1979, the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame in 1994, and the Online Film and Television Association Hall of Fame in 1999

Received the 1985 Humanist Arts Award from the American Humanist Association and the Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1985, the American Comedy Awards in 1985 and the  Kennedy Center Honors in 1990

Released her 1991 autobiography, Me: Stories of My Life

Awarded an honorary doctorate by Columbia University in 1992

Has had a garden in her name since 1997 and an intersection, Katharine Hepburn Place, since 2003 in New York

Named the greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema in 1999 by the American Film Institute

Named in Ladies Home Journal's 1998 book 100 Most Important Women of the 20th century; Encyclopædia Britannica's 300 Women Who Changed the World in 2006; the 2007 book Women Who Changed The World; and Variety's 100 Icons of the Century in 2005

Ranked #68 in in Empire’s Top 100 Movie Stars in 1997; #2 in Entertainment Weekly’s 100 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in 1998; #84 in VH1's "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons of All Time" in 2003; #14 in Premiere's 50 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in 2005 and #13 and #54 in 100 Greatest Performances of All Time in 2006 for The Lion in Winter (1968) and The Philadelphia Story (1940)

Featured in the 2002 play, Tea at Five, and a two-month retrospective by the British Film Institute in 2015

Has personal collections at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences library, the New York Public Library, and the University of Hartford since 2003

Became the namesake of Bryn Mawr College's Katharine Houghton Hepburn Center, which manages the Hepburn Fellows Program, Hepburn Scholarships, and the Katharine Hepburn Medal, since 2006

Inspired the The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center, which opened in 2009 in Old Saybrook and runs the Katharine Hepburn Museum and the Spirit of Katharine Hepburn Award

Became the 16th star honored by US Postal Service's Legends of Hollywood stamp series in 2010

Honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for January 2004 and June 2023

Has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6294 Hollywood Blvd for motion picture

[lboogie1906]

Raymond Anthony Townsend (December 20, 1955) is a retired professional basketball player. He played three seasons in the NBA with the Golden State Warriors and the Indiana Pacers. He played college basketball with the UCLA Bruins, earning all-conference honors in the Pacific-8. He was selected by the Warriors in the first round of the 1978 NBA draft, with the 22nd overall pick, and became the first Filipino American to play in the NBA. He played at the point guard position.

He attended Camden High School and Archbishop Mitty High School, in San Jose, California, where he played high school basketball. As a high school senior, he averaged close to 28 points a game for the Camden High Cougars. This was before the 3-point shot line was regulated. After graduating from high school, he played college basketball at UCLA.

He played college basketball at UCLA. He was a member of the 1975 UCLA National Basketball Championship team, which was the 10th and final NCAA championship team of the school’s head coach, John Wooden. He earned first-team All-Pac-8 honors as a senior.

He concluded his NBA career in 1982, as a member of the Indiana Pacers. He played in Italy’s LBA. He won the 1984 edition of the FIBA Intercontinental Cup.

He was born in San Jose, California. He is half-Filipino through his mother. A 1976 Sports Illustrated issue featured his father, Ray Sr., in its “Faces in the Crowd” section. He was recognized as “the oldest junior college basketball player in history.” At age 39, he was the second man off the bench.

His brother, Kurtis is an assistant coach for the Kansas Jayhawks team that won the 2008 and 2022 NCAA Championships. After his basketball playing career, he worked as a youth sports development coordinator in San Jose. #africanhistory365 #africanexcellence

[gouldblogger]

"In Tel Zaatar, the killers used to hunt Palestinian women at the spring, at the broken water pipe, as if hunting thirsty gazelles. Killer water. Water mixed with the blood of the thirsty who risked their lives for a cup of it. Water that lit the fires of war among the Bedouins in times gone by. Water good for improving the negotiating position of those whose dried-up humanity hasn’t been melted by water. Water that got Arab kings moving, saddling them with the burden of getting in touch with the American president by phone to make a profitable deal: Take the oil, give us water. Take us, but give us water!"

on the 1976 Tel Zaatar Massacre, excerpts from Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982, written by MAHMOUD DARWISH, translated by Ibrahim Murawi

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.27 (after 1970)

1974 – 109 people are killed in a plane crash near Pulkovo Airport. 1976 – Thirty-seven people are killed when American Airlines Flight 625 crashes at Cyril E. King Airport in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. 1978 – John Ehrlichman, a former aide to U.S. President Richard Nixon, is released from the Federal Correctional Institution, Safford, Arizona, after serving 18 months for Watergate-related crimes. 1978 – The Saur Revolution begins in Afghanistan, ending the following morning with the murder of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan and the establishment of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. 1978 – Willow Island disaster: In the deadliest construction accident in United States history, 51 construction workers are killed when a cooling tower under construction collapses at the Pleasants Power Station in Willow Island, West Virginia. 1986 – The city of Pripyat and surrounding areas are evacuated due to Chernobyl disaster. 1987 – The U.S. Department of Justice bars Austrian President Kurt Waldheim (and his wife, Elisabeth, who had also been a Nazi) from entering the US, charging that he had aided in the deportations and executions of thousands of Jews and others as a German Army officer during World War II. 1989 – The April 27 demonstrations, student-led protests responding to the April 26 Editorial, during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. 1992 – The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, comprising Serbia and Montenegro, is proclaimed. 1992 – Betty Boothroyd becomes the first woman to be elected Speaker of the British House of Commons in its 700-year history. 1992 – The Russian Federation and 12 other former Soviet republics become members of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank. 1993 – Most of the Zambia national football team lose their lives in a plane crash off Libreville, Gabon en route to Dakar, Senegal to play a 1994 FIFA World Cup qualifying match against Senegal. 1994 – South African general election: The first democratic general election in South Africa, in which black citizens could vote. The Interim Constitution comes into force. 2005 – Airbus A380 aircraft has its maiden test flight. 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower (later renamed One World Trade Center) in New York City. 2007 – Estonian authorities remove the Bronze Soldier, a Soviet Red Army war memorial in Tallinn, amid political controversy with Russia. 2007 – Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem. 2011 – The 2011 Super Outbreak devastates parts of the Southeastern United States, especially the states of Alabama, Mississippi, Georgia, and Tennessee. Two hundred five tornadoes touched down on April 27 alone, killing more than 300 and injuring hundreds more. 2012 – At least four explosions hit the Ukrainian city of Dnipropetrovsk with at least 27 people injured. 2018 – The Panmunjom Declaration is signed between North and South Korea, officially declaring their intentions to end the Korean conflict.

[wikiuntamed]

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[a-solitary-sea-rover-backup]

The interesting thing about the copy of No Excuse to Lose that I got at the chandlery in Greenport is that it’s a reprint from 1987 to cash in on the celebrations, but the covers are the only thing actually updated (a photo of Conner in Stars & Stripes gear and the back cover summary “The Man Who Brought Home the America’s Cup Tells How and Why He Wins Races”), the book itself seems to be the original 1978 text. The book only goes up to the 1977 America’s Cup, and thus does not cover any later editions or the 1980 Olympics boycott.

This makes the book seem weaker to me, and probably to 1987 audiences as well— the book lays out Conner’s philosophies and strategies as-of 1978, but to someone who knows what happened afterwards, it’s hard not to wonder “And how did he react to having those philosophies challenged or contradicted later on?”

For example, when Conner says he doesn’t enjoy sailing unless it’s to race, and always wants to be in the top event of the year, how did he react to not being able to take part in the 1980 Olympics after the United States boycotted them?

Conner’s approach to competition overall is conservative*, focused on following known paradigms as well as possible rather than innovating, and his advice to young sailors is to do the same. But the approach of the Australia II syndicate that defeated him in 1983 was very much the opposite, and Michael Levitt and Barbara Lloyd’s book Upset has a paragraph something like “Liberty was a very good 12-Metre yacht, but Australia II was something beyond that, a ‘12.5’ or ‘13-Metre’.” How, we naturally wonder, did Conner react to seeing his philosophy so dramatically disproved? Did he reassess his approach? (Working with NASA on hull “riblets” would suggest he DID warm to trying new technological innovations.)

*Tactically conservative, that is. Conner’s sexist and homophobic comments during the 1990s editions of the America’s Cup certainly seem to have been socially conservative, but as there is no mention of female athletes here, that never comes up. The only (very faint) hint of any sociopolitics in No Excuse To Lose is Conner saying he wanted to prove to “the Eastern Establishment” that California “Wasn’t just full of hippies”, with “hippies” and “good sailors” implicitly presented as contrasting— something Bernard Moitessier probably would have disputed. What is somewhat surprising, given how much Conner appealed to American patriotism in later America’s Cup campaigns, is his description of the Soviet Olympic sailor Valentin Mankin as a respected friend and colleague. Their competition in the 1976 Olympics is not presented with a Cold War angle, and any such political context is not even mentioned.

The frustrating thing about this book in its reprint form, then, is the simple question “No Excuse to Lose— so what does it mean that you DID lose? Did that lead you to change your approach for the 1987 competition, and if so, how?” Surely, this must have been a top question in most readers’ minds in 1987, but they won’t find an answer here.

[nothingunrealistic]

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THE FINANCIAL JOURNAL

SATELLITE IMAGES SUGGEST DISCREPANCIES IN CHINESE MANUFACTURING OUTPUT

BY JOYCE CRANDALL

Officials out of Guangdong Province, China’s key manufacturing region, pledge to investigate data reports from multiple sectors after the release of satellite images that allege discrepancies in factory site outputs.

The satellite images, culled from AR Metrics by an anonymous source, supposedly show drastic differences between the reported production numbers of multiple tech company’s Guangdong facilities and the actual yield. If this is true, the economic data gathered from China’s sites in the area would, in fact, mean these numbers would be much lower than previously stated.

These images caused several officials to call for a top to bottom investigation of fraudulent reporting in other sections as well, including household income, GDP, and revenue. Growth figures, which plummeted this year, could have been propped up by this misreporting, culminating in the mysterious and precipitous drop in figures.

Similar reports of data discrepancy has been especially highlighted in the Guangdong region, where multiple tech production sites captured by these satellites report revenues to the county of 865 million yuan (around $130 million) in 2015, around 130% more than the actual numbers. Guangdong’s GDP rise two years ago, reported at

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The problem I have with a lot of these posts is that I don't think the solution is as simple as 'abolish gendered sport'. I firmly believe that there are many sports where women can compete against men, and there are many levels of sports where women could certainly compete against men, but there are also a lot of sports where keeping it divided is better for women's sports from a competitive aspect, if not a financial/viewership aspect.

I am writing this from a perspective of a cis man, so feel free to use that against me.

I participate in gravel racing (bike racing predominantly on dirt roads and green-level mountain biking trails) where the format is a mass-start format where the women and men are all start at the same time for a given course. I'm a solid middle-of-the-pack rider (in two of the three races I participated in I was in the 40th-50th percentile of finishers) so there are plenty of women faster than me, but I finished faster than roughly two-thirds of women on course. That's my own experience, looking at people who signed up for the same race and the same distance (50-60 miles) as myself. Podiums and prizes are still divided out for men, women, and non-binary categories, but results pages usually show results for Overall, Gender, and Category (gender + age).

Gravel racing is a very individual sport and a lot of people are out there to have a good time or do something to meet a personal goal and aren't actually competing.

So what about when things do get competitive? At the elite level of sport, I think there are sports where women can (and should!) compete with men, and there are sports where it should be separate.

Any sport/game where the dominant skills are reflexes, coordination, strategy, and technique are in play should be done as a single category. Sports and games such as table tennis, archery, shooting, chess, and motorsport are ripe fields for grouping women in with men. To bring up American Football once (I also disagree with its existence) I think women would make excellent place kickers in the terrible sport. Interestingly, ultra-ultra-endurance sports like Race Across America have had women be the outright victors, beating all the men.

Then, there are the obvious sports for keeping separate, where size, speed, and strength are obvious advantages, such as most team sports (e.g., basketball, association football, baseball), most Track and Field events, cycling, and swimming. As an example, Katie Ledecky's top record in the 800-m Freestyle is 8:04.79, which is just slower than what the men's record was in 1976, and is significantly slower than the current world record of 7:32.12. Katie Ledecky is an incredible athlete and a dominant swimmer, but her records are far off of the contemporary speed for men's swimming in the same distance, and I don't think having her compete against men would be a service to her.

The other sports that I was curious about when I started looking into this is gravity sports. I started with skiing, but it turns out that world cup downhill skiing typically runs men and women on separate courses, so you can't do a time comparison, but Lindsay Vonn has gone on record saying that she wanted to compete against men because they were faster than the women, as a way to self-improve. Interestingly, coming back to my point above about coordination and technique, women's times at the Beijing Olympics for Slalom were actually competitive with the men (the gold medalist woman would have placed 7th against men, and 2nd place might have finished 8th, and it looks like they do race on the same course for slalom).

The case for dividing men's and women's sports (where appropriate) at lower levels is simply to make sure women stay in sport. I believe women have a place in sport, and women athletes should get recognition. To keep women in sport, they have to be able to compete in a format where they are actually competitive, instead of graduating high school deciding to give up because at that point the boys are too fast, strong, and big.

For a lot of types of sports at the top level, I think the goal should be separate, but equal. Equal pay, equal television coverage, etc. Let women compete against men where it makes sense, and work to improve the lives and careers of women in the sports where it doesn't. I think for recreational and amateur sports there can be more unified sports teams.

Lastly, mixed-teams relays are an emerging format that I think is a cool solution, such as 4x400m relays where the teams have two men and two women.

crazy that in the 1970s they were like, "fine, women can play sports. but because they're innately less athletic than men, only in a special ghettoized League For The Frail And Delicate where they get paid less 😊". And not only is that still the system in 2023, but viciously lashing out at the smallest challenges to that system gets framed as Feminist Praxis

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JANET GUTHRIE // RACING DRIVER

“She is an American former racing driver. She is the first female to qualify and race in either the Indianapolis 500, or the Daytona 500, both of which she competed in during 1977. She had first attempted to enter the Indianapolis 500 in 1976 but failed to qualify. She raced in three Indianapolis 500s: 1977 through 1979. She is also the first woman to lead a lap in NASCAR Cup Series competition.”

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Gourmet burgers are one of our main lines nowadays. Despite the campaigns for healthier heating, veganism etc, burgers are still massively popular. Like most people I have made many a visit to the famous American chains over here, namely McDonalds and Burger King. In fact I am old enough to remember when Wimpy was a massive chain, and truth be told, what I remember of them, their burger was better than either of the USA behemoths. However there are many other chains or 'burger joints' in the US of A. Non at the size of the main two, but some pretty big and expanding. Some of the smaller ones are nowhere near in size, but have massive public followings. We are gonna look at a few of these, their history and menu's. Our first contender is the quaintly named In-N-Out Burgers. First launched in the Los Angeles suburb of Baldwin Park California by Harry and Esther Snyder in 1948. The original store was tiny, only some 10ft square. Harry would visit the local wholesalers each morning to pick out the freshest ingredients whilst his wife Esther would take care of the administration and bookkeeping. The beef patties were made by hand fresh every morning, and quality was a watchword for them from the off. Drive Through Harry would work in his garage on a night, after long days of cooking burgers. Later in 1948 he put together a two way voice box allowing his customers to order food without even leaving their cars. This focus on drive through was a mainstay of the companies business model. In fact it wasn't until restaurant No.21 in 1979 that they even had a sit down section to allow guests to consume their food on the premises. By 1963 they had grown to the extant that they opened their own processing plant for the burgers, up till then Esther had prepared each patty using a hand press. By the time Harry Snyder died in 1976, at the age of 63, the chain had grown to 18 restaurants. Second Generation Harry's son 24-year-old Rich Snyder took the reins after his fathers death and expanded the chain rapidly, building the chain to 90 stores over the next 20 years. Sadly in 1993 whilst returning from opening store No. 93 in Fresno, California, Rich died along with four other passengers when the light aircraft he was in crashed due to being caught in the wake turbulence of a larger aircraft that landed in front of them. His brother Guy took over and aggressively expanded the company to over 140 locations in six years before dying from an overdose of painkillers. Esther Snyder died in 2006 at the age of 86 whereupon the presidency passed to Mark Taylor, former VP of operations. Animal Burgers They launched their 'Animal' burger in 1961, where the beef pattie was fried in a thin layer of mustard, add extra pickles and grilled onions were added. Protein Burger Their protein burger, dispenses with the bun and wraps the whole lot in lettuce, for a healthier option. Flying Dutchman A real unusual one this, think of taking the burger out of the bun and , well and nothing. That's what you get, two patties, two slices of cheese (well that yellow stuff the Americans claim is cheese), pickles salad and wrap it in a slice of paper. In N Out have many items on their secret menu. Not on display in the restaurants, but viewable on the website. In n Out Burgers Crossed Palm Trees The company tend to have a pair of crossed palm trees at the front of each location. This is allegedly in allusion to Harry Snyder's favourite movie, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad World. Bible Quotes In keeping with his Christian beliefs, many In n Out Burgers items such as the drinks cups have bible references printed on them. Read the full article

[film-classics]

Bette Davis - The First Lady of the American Screen

Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (born in Lowell, Massachusetts on April 5, 1908) was an American actress who is one of the most prominent of the 20th century, making her "The First Lady of the American Screen."

Coming from an English family, Davis got a part as a chorus girl and made her Broadway debut in 1929 after graduating from Cushing Academy. One year later, moved to Hollywood to test for Universal. She got a contract, but her first films were unsuccessful.

She joined Warner Bros. in 1932 and had her breakthrough in Of Human Bondage (1934). Even after losing a legal case to cancel her contract, she became a celebrated leading lady. A period of decline in the 1940s was redeemed with her role in All About Eve (1950), often cited as her best. Her final years were marred by ill health, but she continued acting until shortly before her death from breast cancer in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France at 81.

Legacy:

Won the Academy Award for Best Actress twice: Dangerous (1936) and Jezebel (1939)

Was the 1st person to have 10 Oscar nominations for acting and set a record for the most consecutive with five

Nominated for three Golden Globe Best Actress: 1951, 1962, and 1963, and the Primetime Emmy Award in 1979 and nominated in 1980 and 1983

Nominated for the 1959 BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress

Won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1937 Venice Film Festival

Won the National Board of Review Best Acting twice in 1939 and 1942

Won the Photoplay Awards - Best Performances of the Month in Jul 1939 and Dec 1950 and the 1963 Most Popular Female Star

Listed by the Motion Picture Herald as one of America’s top-10 box office draws in 1939 to 1941 and 1944

Co-founded the Hollywood Canteen in 1941

Elected as 1st female president of the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1941

Won Best Actress for at the 1945 Picturegoer Awards

Awarded a Meritorious Civilian Service Award in 1946 and a Distinguished Civilian Service Medal by the Defense Department in 1983

Won the Golden Apple Award for Most Cooperative Actress in 1941 and 1963 and Life Achievement Award in 1983

Won Best Actress at Cannes Film Festival, New York Film Critics Circle, and Nastro d'Argento for All About Eve (1951)

Honored with a block in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in 1950

Won the Golden Laurel for Top Female Dramatic Performance for Hush…Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)

Received the Craft of Cinema Award at the 1969 San Francisco International Film Festival and a special 20th Anniversary Award for All About Eve at the 1973 Sarah Siddons Awards

Gifted personal memorabilia to form the Bette Davis Collection at the Boston University since 1968

Co-wrote 2 autobiographies: The Lonely Life (1962) and This 'n That (1987)

Appeared in John Springer's "Legendary Ladies" series at The Town Hall in 1973

Presented the Cecil B. DeMille Award at the 1974 Golden Globe Awards

Won the 1976 Saturn Award Best Supporting Actress

Is the first woman to receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Film Institute in 1977

Received the 1980 Outstanding Mother of the Year Award from Woman's Day, the 1982 Award of Excellence from the Film Advisory Board, the Golden Reel Award from the National Film Society Artistry in Cinema, the Rudolph Valentino Award for Actress of the Year in 1982, the 1983 Charles Chaplin Award by UCLA Film and Television Archive, and the 1983 Women in Film Crystal Award

Received Life Achievement Awards from American Theater Arts in 1982, Boston Theater District in 1983, Council of Fashion Designers of America in 1986, and American Cinema Awards in 1989

Featured in songs, including Kim Carnes' Grammy-winning "Bette Davis Eyes" (1981)

Won the Golden Nymph at the Monte-Carlo Television Festival for A Piano for Mrs. Cimino (1982)

Awarded an Honorary César, appointed commander of Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1986, and granted a Fellowship by the British Film Institute and a Legion of Honour at Deauville Film Festival in 1987

Was the recipient of the 1987 Kennedy Center Honors Lifetime Achievement Award

Granted the 1988 Merit of Achievement by the Campione d'Italia and the 1989 Donostia Lifetime Achievement Award at the San Sebastián International Film Festival

Has had a memorial plaque in her birth home in Lowell since 1988

Honored by the Film Society of Lincoln Center Gala Tribute in 1989

Featured in the 1989 book Bette and Joan: The Divine Feud, the basis for the 2017 show Feud: Bette and Joan

Ranked #15 in Empire’s Top 100 Movie Stars in 1997; #10 in Entertainment Weekly’s 100 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in 1998; #110 on VH1's "200 Greatest Pop Culture Icons of All Time" in 2003; #25 in Premiere's 50 Greatest Movie Stars of All Time in 2005 and #5 in 100 Greatest Performances of All Time in 2006 for All About Eve (1950)

Has the Bette Davis Foundation established in her honor in 1997 to award scholarships at Boston University

Named the 5th-greatest female star of classic Hollywood cinema in 1999 by the American Film Institute

Inducted in the Online Film and Television Association Hall of Fame in 1999

Chosen in Variety magazine's 100 Icons of the Century in 2005

Honored as Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for April 2008 and November 2019

Became the 14th star honored by US Postal Service's Legends of Hollywood stamp series in 2008

Has 2 stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 6225 Hollywood Blvd for motion picture and 6233 Hollywood Blvd for TV