#Debra Werner

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NeuraSpace platform assets jump tenfold In six months, Portuguese startup NeuraSpace has gone from 25 to 250 satellites on its space traffic management platform. The post NeuraSpace platform assets jump tenfold appeared first on SpaceNews. https://spacenews.com/neuraspace-platform-assets-jump-tenfold/

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After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts – in the wallet! Credits: TheMovieDb. Film Cast: Elise Elliot Atchison: Goldie Hawn Brenda Morelli Cushman: Bette Midler Annie MacDuggan Paradis: Diane Keaton Gunilla Garson Goldberg: Maggie Smith Shelly Stewart: Sarah Jessica Parker Morton Cushman: Dan Hedaya Cynthia Swann Griffin: Stockard Channing Bill Atchison: Victor Garber Aaron Paradis: Stephen Collins Phoebe LaVelle: Elizabeth Berkley Dr. Leslie Rosen: Marcia Gay Harden Duarto Feliz: Bronson Pinchot Chris Paradis: Jennifer Dundas Catherine MacDuggan: Eileen Heckart Uncle Carmine Morelli: Philip Bosco Dr. Morris Packman: Rob Reiner Gill Griffin: James Naughton Jason Cushman: Ari Greenberg Ivana Trump: Ivana Trump Kathie Lee Gifford: Kathie Lee Gifford Gloria Steinem: Gloria Steinem Elise’s Fan: Lea DeLaria Jilted Lover: Debra Monk Woman in Bed: Kate Burton Brett Artounian: Timothy Olyphant Federal Marshall: J.K. Simmons Young Brenda: Michele Brilliant Young Elise: Dina Spybey-Waters Young Annie: Adria Tennor Young Cynthia: Juliehera DeStefano Miss Sullivan: J. Smith-Cameron Eric Loest: Mark Nelson Gil’s New Wife: Heather Locklear Security Guard: Richard Council Film Crew: Producer: Scott Rudin Set Decoration: Leslie E. Rollins Second Unit Director: Jack Gill Director of Photography: Donald E. Thorin Editor: John Bloom Associate Editor: Antonia Van Drimmelen Casting: Ilene Starger Costume Design: Theoni V. Aldredge Music Supervisor: Marc Shaiman Production Design: Peter S. Larkin Associate Producer: Craig Perry Production Manager: Ezra Swerdlow Makeup Artist: Angela Levin Director: Hugh Wilson Screenplay: Robert Harling Hairstylist: Alan D’Angerio Assistant Art Director: Ed Check Art Direction: Charley Beal Choreographer: Patricia Birch Executive Producer: Adam Schroeder Camera Operator: Rob Hahn Casting Assistant: Kim Miscia Post Production Supervisor: Tod Scott Brody Sound Re-Recording Mixer: Lee Dichter Production Coordinator: Ray Angelic Sound Editor: Richard P. Cirincione Hairstylist: Frances Mathias Storyboard Artist: Brick Mason Construction Coordinator: Ron Petagna Makeup Artist: Bernadette Mazur Sound Editor: Laura Civiello Boom Operator: John Fundus Sound Mixer: Peter F. Kurland Location Manager: Joseph E. Iberti Assistant Art Director: Paul D. Kelly Negative Cutter: Noëlle Penraat Costume Supervisor: Hartsell Taylor Music Editor: Nic Ratner Special Effects Coordinator: Matt Vogel Costume Supervisor: Michael Adkins Still Photographer: Andrew D. Schwartz ADR Editor: Kenton Jakub Sound Editor: Eytan Mirsky Supervising Sound Editor: Maurice Schell Chief Lighting Technician: Jerry DeBlau Hairstylist: Werner Sherer Makeup Artist: E. Thomas Case Hairstylist: Robert Ramos Foley Editor: Bruce Kitzmeyer First Assistant Director: Michael E. Steele Script Supervisor: Shari L. Carpenter Music Editor: Nicholas Meyers Unit Publicist: Eric Myers Music Programmer: Nick Vidar Second Assistant Director: Julie A. Bloom Art Department Coordinator: Julia G. Hickman Transportation Captain: Steven R. Hammond Stunt Double: Joni Avery Transportation Co-Captain: Tom Heilig Color Timer: Tom Salvatore Cableman: Tommy Louie Co-Producer: Thomas A. Imperato Novel: Olivia Goldsmith Associate Producer: Heather Neely Associate Producer: Noah Ackerman Property Master: Octavio Molina Storyboard Artist: Lorenzo Contessa Makeup Artist: Marilyn Carbone Assistant Costume Designer: Wallace G. Lane Jr. Assistant Sound Editor: Jay Kessel Foley Editor: Stuart Stanley Movie Reviews:

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Military space groups in New Mexico expand recruitment and STEM education for children

STEM Education AFRL’s STEM Academy provides curriculum and hands-on activities for students in kindergarten through high school including rocket launch competitions and simulated Mars missions. Space News, Debra Werner, October 3, 2023 #nuclear #antinuclear #nuclear-free #NoNukes “……….. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate along with other military space organizations at…

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“That ‘70s Show” Gets Spinoff

Netflix has ordered a spinoff of_ That ‘70s Show. That ‘90s Show _will see the return of Kurtwood Smith and Debra Jo Rupp as Red and Kitty Forman. Gregg Mettler serves as showrunner, writer, and an executive producer. Bonnie Turner, Terry Turner, and Lindsey Turner are onboard as writers and executive producers. Other executive producers include Smith, Rupp, Marcy Carsey, and Tom Werner.

In That ‘90s Show, Leia Forman, daughter of Eric and Donna, visits her grandparents for the summer where she will bond with the latest generation of Point Place kids.

(Image from That ‘70s Show)

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Quiff,, Wolfgang Schmidt

Sincerely to: Andy Hall, Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Paul Allen, Edythe L. and Eli Broad, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Patricia and Gustavo Phelps de Cisneros (Venezuela and Dominican Republic), Donald and Mera Rubell, Steven A. Cohen, Theo Danjuma, Maria Baibakova, Adrian Cheng, Ingvild Goetz (München), Victoria and David Beckham, Leonardo Dicaprio, Alan Lau, Camilla Barella, Ralph DeLuca, Arthur de Ganay, Ramin Salsali, Moises Cosio, Pedro Barbosa, Monique and Max Burger, Joaquin Diez-Cascon, Luciano Benetton, Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova (Russia), Robbie Antonio (Philippines), Hélène and Bernard Arnault (France), Maria and Bill Bell (United States), Peter Benedek (United States), Debra and Leon Black (United States), Christian and Karen Boros (Germany), Irma and Norman Braman (United States), Peter Brant (United States), Basma Al Sulaiman, Marc Andreessen, Laura and John Arnold, Camilla Barella, Swizz Beatz, Claudia Beck, Andrew Gruft, Robert and Renée Belfer, Lawrence Benenson, Frieder Burda (Germany), Richard Chang (United States), Kim Chang-il (Korea), David Chau and Kelly Ying (China), Pierre T.M. Chen (Taiwan), Adrian Cheng (China), Kemal Has Cingillioglu (United Kingdom), Nicolas Berggruen, Jill and Jay Bernstein, Ernesto Bertarelli, James Brett, Jim Breyer, Christian Bührle, Valentino D. Carlotti, Edouard Carmignac, Trudy and Paul Cejas, Dimitris Daskalopoulos (Greece), Zöe and Joel Dictrow (United States), George Economou (Greece), Alan Faena (Argentina), Mark Falcone and Ellen Bruss (United States), Amy and Vernon Faulconer (United States), Howard and Patricia Farber (United States), Larry and Marilyn Fields (United States), Marie Chaix, Michael and Eva Chow, Frank Cohen, Michael and Eileen Cohen, Isabel and Agustín Coppel, Anthony D'Offay, Hélène and Michel David-Weill, Antoine de Galbert, Ralph DeLuca, Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman (United States), Danielle and David Ganek (United States), Ken Griffin (United States), Agnes Gund (United States), Steven and Kathy Guttman (United States), Andrew and Christine Hall (United States), Lin Han (China), Henk and Victoria de Heus-Zomer (Holland), Grant Hill (United States), Maja Hoffmann (Switzerland), Erika Hoffmann-Koenige (Germany), Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Eric Diefenbach and JK Brown, David C. Driskell, Mandy and Cliff Einstein, Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg, Ginevra Elkann, Tim and Gina Fairfax, Dana Farouki, Michael and Susan Hort (United States), Guillaume Houzé (France), Wang Jianlin (China), Dakis Joannou (Greece), Alan Lau (China), Joseph Lau (China), Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy (United States), Agnes and Edward Lee (United Kingdom), Aaron and Barbara Levine (United States), Adam Lindemann (United States), Eugenio López (Mexico), Jho Low (China), Susan and Leonard Feinstein, Nicoletta Fiorucci, Josée and Marc Gensollen, Alan and Jenny Gibbs, Noam Gottesman, Florence and Daniel Guerlain, Paul Harris, Barbara and Axel Haubrok, Alan Howard, Fatima and Eskandar Maleki (United Kingdom), Martin Margulies (United States), Peter Marino (United States), Donald Marron (United States), David MartÍnez (United Kingdom and Mexico), Raymond J. McGuire (United States), Rodney M. Miller Sr. (United States), Simon and Catriona Mordant (Australia), Arif Naqvi (United Kingdom), Peter Norton (United States), Shi Jian, Elton John, Tomislav Kličko, Mo Koyfman, Jan Kulczyk, Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya, Pierre Lagrange, Eric and Liz Lefkofsky, Robert Lehrman, François Odermatt (Canada), Bernardo de Mello Paz (Brazil), José Olympio & Andréa Pereira (Brazil), Catherine Petitgas (United Kingdom), Victor Pinchuk (Ukraine), Alden and Janelle Pinnell (United States),Ron and Ann Pizzuti (United States), Michael Platt (Switzerland), Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli (Italy), Howard and Cindy Rachofsky (United States), Mitchell and Emily Rales (United States), Dan Loeb, George Lucas, Ninah and Michael Lynne, Lewis Manilow, Marissa Mayer, David Mirvish, Lakshmi Mittal, Valeria Napoleone, John Paulson, Amy and John Phelan, Ellen and Michael Ringier (Switzerland), David Roberts (United Kingdom), Hilary and Wilbur L. Ross Jr. (United States), Dmitry Rybolovlev (Russia), Lily Safra (Brazil),Tony Salamé (Lebanon), Patrizia Sandretto (Italy), Eric Schmidt (United States), Alison Pincus, Heather Podesta, Colette and Michel Poitevin, Thomas J. and Margot Pritzker, Bob Rennie, Craig Robins, Deedie and Rusty Rose, Stephen Ross, Alex Sainsbury, Alain Servais (Belgium), Carlos Slim (Mexico), Julia Stoschek (Germany), Budi Tek (Indonesia), Janine and J. Tomilson Hill III (United States), Trevor Traina (United States), Alice Walton (United States), Robert & Nicky Wilson (United Kingdom), Elaine Wynn (United States), Lu Xun (China), Muriel and Freddy Salem, Denise and Andrew Saul, Steven A. Schwarzman, Carole Server and Oliver Frankel, Ramin Salsali, David Shuman, Stefan Simchowitz, Elizabeth and Frederick Singer, Jay Smith and Laura Rapp, Jeffrey and Catherine Soros, Jerry Yang and Akiko Young (United States), Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei (China), Anita and Poju Zabludowicz (United Kingdom), Jochen Zeitz (South Africa), Qiao Zhibing (China), Jerry Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch, Kai van Hasselt, Francesca von Habsburg, David Walsh, Artur Walther, Derek and Christen Wilson, Michael Wilson, Owen Wilson, Zhou Chong, Doris and Donald Fisher, Ronnie and Samuel Heyman, Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Laude, Francois Pinault (France), Udo Brandhost (Köln), Harald Falckenberg (Hamburg), Anna and Joseph Froehlich (Stuttgart), Hans Grothe (Bremen), UN Knecht (Stuttgart), Arendt Oetker (Köln), Inge Rodenstock (Grünwald), Ute and Rudolf Scharpff (Stuttgart), Reiner Speck (Köln), Eleonore and Michael Stoffel (Köln), Reinhold Würth (Niedernhall), Wilhelm and Gaby Schürmann, Ivo Wessel, Heiner and Celine Bastian, Friedrich Karl Flick, Monique and Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller (Genf), Christa and Thomas Bechtler (Zürich), David Bowie (Lausanne), Ulla and Richard Dreyfus (Binningen und Gstaad), Georges Embiricos (Jouxtens and Gstaad), Friedrich Christian "Mick" Flick (Hergiswil and Gstaad), Esther Grether (Bottmingen), Donald Hess (Bolligen), Elsa and Theo Hotz (Meilen), Baroness Marion and Baron Philippe Lambert (Genf), Gabi and Werner Merzbacher (Zürich), Robert Miller (Gstaad), Philip Niarchos (St. Moritz), Jacqueline and Philippe Nordmann (Genf), Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann (Basel), George Ortiz (Vandoeuvres), Graf and Gräfin Giuseppe Panza di Biumo (Massagno), Ellen and Michael Ringier (Zürich), Andrew Loyd Webber, Steve Martin, Gerhard Lenz, Elisabeth and Rudolf Leopold.

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Clarke, Juanne and Susan James. 2003. “The Radicalized Self: The Impact on the Self of the Contested Nature of the Diagnosis of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome.” Social Science & Medicine 57(8):1387-1395.

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Phillips, Tarryn. 2010. “‘I Never Wanted to Be a Quack!’ The Professional Deviance of Plaintiff Experts in Contested Illness Lawsuits: The Case of Multiple Chemical Sensitivities.” Medical Anthropology 24(2):182-198

Malterud, Kirsti and Anne Werner. 2003. “It is Hard Work Behaving as a Credible Patient: Encounters Between Women With Chronic Pain and Their Doctors.” Social Science & Medicine 57(8):1409-1419. 

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“Ekofilmiska tankefrön” (publicerad i Filmrutan, nr. 2 2019)

I en tid när klimatkrisen sätts under daglig lupp, är det inte förvånande om intresset ökar för filmer som på ett eller annat sätt kommenterar människans relation till vår planet. I så fall behövs det inte ett alltför avancerat mikroskop för att upptäcka spaningar kring miljö, kultur- och naturarv.

Vissa filmare tar mer än bokstavligt talat avstamp i det intima och personliga. Jennifer Reed, doktorand i sociologi vid Nevadas universitet i Las Vegas, skriver en avhandling om ekosexualitet. Hon har följt konstnärs- och aktivistparet Annie Sprinkle och Elizabeth Stephens, som ligger bakom dokumentären Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story (2014). Den skildrar filmskaparnas symboliska, “pollenamorösa” förhållande med Appalacherna, samt deras kamp mot gruvbrytning och MTR (Mountaintop Removal Mining). I en intervju i Washington Post berättar Reed om hur parets månggiften, varav det första ägde rum 2008, delvis var en reaktion på motståndet mot samkönade äktenskap och hånfulla ord som: “If you let gay people get married, they’ll marry anything” (22/4, 2019). Med humorn som vapen, vill paret bjuda på sig själva och sprida ljus för att lätta upp bland dystopiska framtidsbilder.

I sammanhanget kan nämnas så kallade objektsexuella, som likt de som ingått äktenskap med Berlinmuren, ger sitt hjärta till specifika föremål. Ekosexuella verkar däremot ha en mer grandios och flytande relation till sina partners. Varför äkta ett träd när man kan få en hel bergskedja? Sprinkle/Stevens menar att istället för att se Moder Jord som en förälder, bör vi betrakta henne som en älskare. Lyckligtvis kan man fortfarande respektera sin mor utan att nödvändigtvis inleda ett incestuöst förhållande med henne.

I varm dialog med jorden Att konstnärer söker sig till lugna miljöer för att få skaparro, är lika självklart som att dödsmetallmusiker inte håller igen med ljudvolymen. En som inte nöjer sig med en vanlig ateljé, är den tyska konstnären Ulrike Arnold, som har ägnat sitt yrkesverksamma liv åt att måla på otillgängliga platser världen över. Essensens av hennes arbete porträtteras i Dialogue Earth (Hank Levine, 2019), som framför allt är en dokumentation av Arnolds verksamhet i Utahs öken, där hon har etablerat en “open-air studio”. Där tar hon hjälp av omgivningen, då de abstrakta verken får sin form utifrån de material som råkar finns på plats. Förutom exempelvis jord, sand och lera, använder hon dammpartiklar från meteoriter. På så sätt, menar Arnold, kopplas universums storhet ihop med den mer greppbara värld vi känner till. Kanske bjuder det in till tolkningar och tankar om jordens uppkomst, kanske nöjer sig åskådaren med att beundra hennes uppdaterade versioner av stenålderns hällmålningar.

Det går inte att ta miste på Arnolds respekt för de tusenåriga grottor som har formats av sanddyner och tjänat som hem för ursprungsfolk. Hyllningarna till det karga landskapet får en att vilja packa ned solskyddsfaktorn och fikatermosen, för att åka på knölig roadtrip bland klippformationer. Levines dokumentär är dock inte bara mys och bergsromantik. I samband med att Arnold möter en hobbyarkeolog till “granne” i öknen, som hjälper henne att samla rester från meteoriter, berättar hon om oron inför framtiden. Detta på grund av president Trumps omstridda, exekutiva order 2017 om att återkalla eller skala ned nationella monument, däribland Bears Ears-monumentet i Utah.

Förutom att ordern kan strida mot Antiquites Act som trädde i kraft 1906, som syftar till att bevara naturtillgångar, pekar Arnold på hur flertal historiska landskap är i farozonen på grund av gruvdrift och oljebrytning. Detta har inspirerat henne att göra något kreativt med alla de jordfärger hon funnit genom åren. Slutresultatet One World Painting, uppfördes i FN-huset i New York under Earth Day 22 april i år. Dukens färger är menade att representera mångfald och kulturell spretighet. Som det står formulerat i ett pressmeddelande: “a statement for the preservation and protection of our unique planet earth, peace and harmony.”

Åter till södra Utah, där spåren från stekande sol, väder, vind och krälande varelser är påtagliga, dock utan att hindra arbetsprocessen. För Arnold är det snarare en tillgång. Vördnaden inför platsen hon befinner sig på, är så stor att hon ser penseldragen som en dialog, ett samspel där former framhävs och levandegörs, som en organisk utväxt av landskapet. Det som sker, får ske. På så sätt jobbar hon inte mot utan med slumpen; ödet får avgöra hur dagsverket landar. Ibland flyter skapelserna ihop med omgivningen att de på håll ter sig som kamouflage, där det är svårt att tyda var den mänskliga inverkan börjar och slutar.

I dokumentären visas några möten med Arnolds vänner – mest spirituellt blir det när hon samtalar med navajoindianen Eli Secody – och via arkivbilder får man ta del av hur Arnolds strikta uppväxt har påverkat hennes konstnärskap och drivkraften att stå på egna ben. Hon säger att upptäckten av en plats, är upptäckten av en själ, vilket gör att hon aldrig känner sig ensam i ödemarken. Förutom sökandet och viljan att bottna i en urkraft, skänker Dialogue Earth förståelse för att en sten inte alltid bara är en sten. Vissa hittar hem i den urbana betongen, andra, som Ulrike Arnold, finner mening och ro i öknens varma famn.

Glöm inte var du kommer ifrån Darren Aronofskys surrealistiska skräckdrama Mother (2017), fungerar som en allegori över hur människan behandlar jorden. En författare med skrivkramp (Javier Bardem) och hans tålmodiga hustru (Jennifer Lawrence) bor i ett ensligt hus, vars inre väsen är en tickande bomb som exploderar när de yttre påfrestningarna blir för stora. Aronofsky kräver mycket av sin publik och är sällan övertydlig i intervjuer. Istället vill han uppmuntra oss att själva reflektera över symboliken i Mother, de många bottnarna och bibliska referenserna. Filmens barnförbjudna, illustrerade poster, där huvudpersonen visar upp sitt utslitna hjärta, bör dock ge en fingervisning om dess sensmoral.

I den inte fullt lika apokalyptiska satiren Downsizing (Alexander Payne, 2017) från samma år, har norska forskare kommit på ett sätt att stävja överbefolkning. Genom att krympa människor till att bli decimeterlånga, ska man radikalt spara på jordens resurser. En positiv ekonomisk bieffekt, åtminstone för medelklassen, är att den konverterade valutan som pyssling innebär ett liv i överflöd. Det visar sig snart att det är svårt att trolla bort orättvisor. På sedvanligt småputtrigt vis, förmedlar Alexander Payne den smygande insikten att människan allt som oftast är sin egen fiende.

Stadens lungor En i Chicago lokalt förankrad dokumentär, är The Lungs of the City (Harrison Swanson & Oliver Czuma, 2019), som handlar om hur stadens sjösida faktiskt inte är naturlig, utan konstruerad för att komma det gemensamma till gagn. Trots en knapp kvarts speltid ryms en hel del historik och intervjuer med stadsplanerare och andra experter. Det talas om återuppbyggnaden efter den stora branden 1871, skapandet av generösa utrymmen för stränder, promenad- och löpstråk och hur Chicago brukar förknippas med sin ståtliga sjösida.

Ibland görs försök att exploatera dessa områden och därmed utmana gamla överenskommelser. Exempelvis nämns hur Hollywoodlegenden George Lucas kämpade i åratal för att etablera ett strandnära museum för sina filmuniversum, just vid Lake Michigan. Initiativet, som först välkomnades av såväl borgmästare som politiker, gladde säkert många Star Wars-fans, men kritiker varnade för att museets tilltänkta placering skulle inkräkta på det allmänna. De beskrev byggnaden som “an eyesore on the waterfront, [violating] public use policy governing development on the shore of Lake Michigan” (Reuters, 24/6 2016). Kritiken vann gehör och efter ett svidande nederlag blev det inte läge för Lucas-imperiet att slå tillbaka. Lucas Museum of Narrative Art håller istället på att etablera sig i Los Angeles. Slutet gott för vänner av matinéäventyr-memorabilia, men exemplet belyser utmaningarna i att verka för en expansiv, urban miljö, utan att tumma på de offentliga utrymmen som blivit en stads signum.

Självförverkligandets höga pris En poäng som görs i The Lungs of the City, är att det inom staden bör finnas rimliga ytor för mental paus och andrum från stadens larm. Detta får extra tyngd i en kontext som saknar något för svenskar så självklart som allemansrätten. Debra Graniks senaste spelfilm Leave No Trace (2018), handlar om en krigsveteran, som med sin tonårsdotter lever olovandes i ett naturreservat utanför Portland. Då pappan lider av PTSD, har han medvetet sökt sig utanför samhällets ramar. Dilemman uppstår när dottern börjar sakna den ordnade, trygga tillvaron i staden. Att det känns så äkta, beror på att historien bygger på ett äkta livsöde, fångat av författaren Peter Rock i boken My Abandomnent (2009). Aktuell forskning i ämnet syns bland annat i det Colorado-baserade dokumentärprojektet Remedy (Nick McNaughton), där det undersöks hur rekreation i naturen kan hjälpa krigsveteraner med stressrelaterade problem.

Att gå utanför sin bekvämlighetszon, eller rentav riskera livet för att bli ett med naturen, är ett återkommande tema i spelfilmer. Wild (Jean-Marc Vallée, 2014) och Into the Wild (Sean Penn, 2007) visar två personers respektive resor i vildmarken. Båda är baserade på verkliga händelser, precis som 127 Hours (Danny Boyle, 2010) om bergsbestigaren Aron Ralston, som överlevde en ödesdiger vandring i Canyonlands National Park i Utah. Även i omtalade dokumentärer som Grizzly Man (Werner Herzog, 2005) och Free Solo (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin, 2018), berättas om passionerade individer. Att som Alex Honnold i den sistnämnda bergsklättra utan livlina, lär förfära de flesta, men vem har facit för frihetstörstande själar? Vem producerar hållbara lösningar för att framtidens barn ska kunna vädra sinnet? Svaren lär finnas därute.

[sciencespies]

Powering sustainability: Satellite propulsion underpins orbital stewardship

https://sciencespies.com/space/powering-sustainability-satellite-propulsion-underpins-orbital-stewardship/

Powering sustainability: Satellite propulsion underpins orbital stewardship

Small satellite propulsion has a critical role to play in keeping space sustainable.

While in-orbit debris cleaners and other emerging capabilities capture imaginations, thrusters underpin a healthy operating environment in space.

Onboard thrusters can help ensure a satellite safely reaches its assigned orbit, moves out of harm’s way, relocates as market and mission requirements warrant, and dispose of itself when the time comes.

It is partly why the rise of smallsat constellations has spawned dozens of propulsion startups promising more efficient thruster as concerns over congested orbits grow.

Ensuring space sustainability means giving satellite operators more propulsion capabilities for managing their constellations, according to István Lőrincz, co-founder and president of propulsion startup Morpheus Space.

“You cannot talk about space sustainability without talking about propulsion,” Lőrincz said.

Enpulsion’s Nano R3 is roughly the size of a Rubik’s Cube, weighs about a kilogram, and produces 350 micronewtons of nominal thrust.

As more satellites are added to low Earth orbit, he believes it will be increasingly crucial for smaller spacecraft to have the means to maneuver within their constellations.

Smallsats might need to dodge malfunctioning spacecraft and debris, or shift their position to heal an issue somewhere else on the network.

Lőrincz believes operators will be increasingly incentivised to deorbit spent satellites faster as constellations grow, enabling them to be replaced more efficiently and maintain or even improve service levels.

Constellations relying on intersatellite links, in particular, will want to minimize costs by limiting the number of satellites they send to space, he said, but risk “serious outages” if a spacecraft is lost and the network cannot be adjusted to compensate.“[T]o replace a malfunctioning satellite, you would have to remove it first, and obviously you want to perform that as fast and as coordinated as possible,” he said.

But for now, and in the absence of globally accepted orbital stewardship rules and incentives, he said spending resources to speed up a retired satellite’s atmospheric reentry is more about burnishing an operator’s corporate image than its bottom line.

Still, there are growing calls for international cooperation to enforce standardized rules for space operations. The World Economic Forum is developing a Space Sustainability Rating system, which scores companies based on factors including post-mission deorbit plans and collision-avoidance measures. Missions that voluntarily participate in the system would earn a certification and rating based on how they contribute to space sustainability.

NEW OPERATING ENVIRONMENT

While onboard propulsion is typical for large satellites that have provided vital services for decades, it is not as commonplace among smallsats that have relatively only recently graduated from experimental to commercial roles.

The satellites AAC Clyde Space is building for Eutelsat will use onboard propulsion for phasing, stationkeeping and collision avoidance.

“I think we’ll start seeing that more and more,” said Luis Gomes, AAC Clyde Space CEO.

“I suspect collision avoidance will become a mandatory requirement from licensing countries.”

Rules for avoiding collisions may apply, for example, to satellites operating at altitudes above 400 kilometers. Similarly, satellites operating at 600 kilometers or higher may be required to have some way to deorbit, or at least to move below the International Space Station’s altitude before deorbiting passively.

Increasingly, nanosatellites programs backed by U.S. or European government agencies require some propulsion.

“They want to see how we are going to mitigate the risk of collision with space junk,” said Vytenis Buzas, NanoAvionics CEO and co-founder.

“People are starting to talk about that and about ways to reduce the orbital altitude after the satellite is no longer operational, including propulsion, tethers and other deorbiting devices.”

If agencies mandate collision avoidance capabilities, they will need to offer clear explanations of the scenarios they envision, noted Brad King, Orbion Space Technology CEO and founder.

“If I’m trying to avoid a collision that might happen next month, that maneuver is very different than if I’m trying to avoid a collision that might happen in the next hour or so,” King said.

Orbion is developing a thruster uniquely designed for collision avoidance. While electric propulsion is extremely fuel-efficient — and thus a popular option for especially volume-constrained satellites — it is unlikely to provide enough on-demand thrust to avoid a collision without substantial lead time.

“Most electric propulsion technologies just can’t get out of the way in time even if you stomp on the accelerator,” he said. “We have a feature we added to our system that resolves that issue.”

Five years ago when Austria’s Enpulsion began developing nanosatellite thrusters, cubesats had few propulsion options. Now, companies are beginning to flight test a wide variety of chemical and electric propulsion systems sized for a growing population of relatively tiny satellites.

At the same time, regulators are beginning to insist satellites actively deorbit at the end of missions.

OIL SPILLS ARE BAD FOR BUSINESS

Companies concerned about their reputations don’t want to be seen as bad for the environment.

A satellite that crashes into something during deorbit because it does not have sufficient propulsion to control its descent would be a business-hurting PR disaster, to say the least. Oil spills on Earth, after all, tend to be bad for business.

But adding more propulsion capabilities means additional costs for a satellite operator.

A satellite devoting more of its power budget to thrusters has less available for running cameras, transponders, or other payloads central to generating revenue or meeting its mission.

Propulsion startups targeting the smallsat market aim to introduce affordable, efficient thrusters that provide plenty of boost without overtaxing a satellite operator’s finite resources — namely money, mass, onboard power and fuel.

Morpheus co-founder Lőrincz said propulsion companies like his “should be obligated to make their offering so enticing that sustainable operations have no significant impact on the bottom line. Or even better, that adopting propulsion is helping the business and this is what we set out to do.”

Morpheus was the only space mobility propulsion venture to win LEO constellation operator OneWeb’s innovation challenge in July.

Lőrincz said it is in a co-engineering phase with OneWeb to support the operator’s second-generation constellation.

AVOIDING SPACE EXPLOSIONS

More power-efficient thrusters could mean a satellite can move while imaging or communicating without putting undue strain on its batteries or solar cells.

That opens up new applications for different types of satellites, according to space propulsion startup Accion Systems, which recently sold a majority stake of the venture to private equity for $42 million.

The type of propulsion is also an important factor in space sustainability, noted Accion Chief Technology Officer Natalya Bailey.

Using a combination of liquid and electric propulsion for thrusters enables Accion’s system to be unpressurized, unlike some others that have to manage pressurized gas containment technology.

Bailey said the ability of its Tiled Ionic Liquid Electrospray (TILE) thrusters to eliminate the need for pressurized fuel tanks and high energy systems will become increasingly important as satellite population grows.

“We’re not needing to launch little bombs into orbit that have the potential to not only destroy a customer’s own constellation, if there’s a chain reaction of explosions, but they could also really muck up LEO for everybody else as well,” she said.

Debra Werner contributed to this story from San Francisco.

This article originally appeared in the August 2021 issue of SpaceNews magazine.

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A COMPLETE LIST OF FILMS I WATCHED IN 2017

1.      A Cure for Wellness (2016, dir. Gore Verbinski)

2.      Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972, dir. Werner Herzog)

3.      All About Eve (1950, dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz)

4.      Arrival (2016, dir. Denis Villeneuve)

5.      Baby Driver (2017, dir. Edgar Wright)

6.      Beauty and the Beast (2017, dir. Bill Condon)

7.      Belladonna of Sadness (1973, dir. Eiichi Yamamoto)

8.      Big Little Lies (2017, dir. Jean-Marc Vallée)

9.      Black Mirror: Hated in the Nation (2016, dir. James Hawes)

10.  Black Mirror: Men Against Fire (2016, dir. Jakob Verbruggen)

11.  Black Mirror: San Junipero (2016, dir. Owen Harris)

12.  Blood Simple. (1984, dir. Joel and Ethan Coen)

13.  Born in China (2017, dir. Chuan Lu)

14.  Boxing Helena (1993, dir. Jennifer Lynch)

15.  Candyman (1992, dir. Bernard Rose)

16.  Carnival of Souls (1962, dir. Herk Harvey)

17.  Chicago (2002, dir. Rob Marshall)

18.  Chico and Rita (2010, dir. Tono Errando, Javier Mariscal and Fernando Trueba)

19.  Chris Gethard: Career Suicide (2017, dir. Kimberly Senior)

20.  Dogtooth (2009, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

21.  Dolores Claiborne (1995, dir. Taylor Hackford)

22.  Dunkirk (2017, dir. Christopher Nolan)

23.  Elle (2016, dir. Paul Verhoeven)

24.  Emma (1996, dir. Douglas McGrath)

25.  Far from the Madding Crowd (1967, dir. John Schlesinger)

26.  Far from the Madding Crowd (2015, dir. Thomas Vinterberg)

27.  Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965, dir. Russ Meyer)

28.  Father John Misty: Pure Comedy (The Film) (2017, dir. Grant James and Josh Tillman)

29.  Frailty (2001, dir. Bill Paxton)

30.  Friday (1995, dir. F. Gary Gray)

31.  Friday the 13th (1980, dir. Sean S. Cunningham)

32.  George Michael: Freedom (2017, dir. David Austin and George Michael)

33.  Get Out (2017, dir. Jordan Peele)

34.  Ghost (1990, dir. Jerry Zucker)

35.  Gray’s Anatomy (1996, dir. Steven Soderbergh)

36.  Hamilton’s America (2016, dir. Alex Horwitz)

37.  Heaven’s Gate (1980, dir. Michael Cimino)

38.  Hidden Figures (2016, dir. Ted Melfi)

39.  Holiday (1938, dir. George Cukor)

40.  I Am Not Your Negro (2016, dir. Raoul Peck)

41.  I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore. (2017, dir. Macon Blair)

42.  I Love You Phillip Morris (2009, dir. Glenn Ficarra and John Requa)

43.  In a Heartbeat (2017, dir. Esteban Bravo and Beth David)

44.  It’s Alive (1974, dir. Larry Cohen)

45.  Jackie (2016, dir. Pablo Larraín)

46.  Jen Kirkman: Just Keep Livin’? (2017, dir. Lance Bangs)

47.  Jim and Andy: The Great Beyond – Featuring a Very Special, Contractually Obligated Mention of Tony Clifton (2017, dir. Chris Smith)

48.  Jim Carrey: I Needed Color (2017, dir. David L. Bushell)

49.  La La Land (2016, dir. Damien Chazelle)

50.  Lawrence of Arabia (1962, dir. David Lean)

51.  Lion (2016, dir. Garth Davis)

52.  Logan (2017, dir. James Mangold)

53.  Logan Lucky (2017, dir. Steven Soderbergh)

54.  Lost Highway (1997, dir. David Lynch)

55.  Louis C.K. 2017 (2017, dir. Louis C.K.) (yes, I know; this was before I knew about what he did, I’m sorry)

56.  Loving (2016, dir. Jeff Nichols)

57.  MTV Unplugged: 10,000 Maniacs (1993, dir. Milton Lage)

58.  Man on the Moon (1999, dir. Milos Forman)

59.  Manchester by the Sea (2016, dir. Kenneth Lonergan)

60.  Marc Maron: Too Real (2017, dir. Lynn Shelton)

61.  Maria Bamford: Old Baby (2017, dir. Jessica Yu)

62.  Mary Poppins (1964, dir. Robert Stevenson)

63.  Meet the Feebles (1989, dir. Peter Jackson)

64.  Michelle Wolf: Nice Lady (2017, dir. Neal Brennan)

65.  Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children (2016, dir. Tim Burton)

66.  Moana (2016, dir. Ron Clements, Don Hall, John Musker and Chris Williams)

67.  Moonlight (2016, dir. Barry Jenkins)

68.  mother! (2017, dir. Darren Aronofsky)

69.  My Cousin Rachel (2017, dir. Roger Michell)

70.  Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs (2017, dir. Michael Dempsey)

71.  New Rose Hotel (1998, dir. Abel Ferrara)

72.  Orphan (2009, dir. Jaume Collet-Serra)

73.  Over the Garden Wall (2014, dir. Nate Cash)

74.  Pete Holmes: Faces and Sounds (2016, dir. Marcus Raboy)

75.  Pride and Prejudice (2005, dir. Joe Wright)

76.  Psycho (1960, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

77.  Rango (2011, dir. Gore Verbinski)

78.  Rear Window (1954, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

79.  Silence (2016, dir. Martin Scorsese)

80.  Space Mutiny (1988, dir. Neal Sundstrom and David Winters)

81.  Spawn (1997, dir. Mark A.Z. Dippé)

82.  Step Brothers (2008, dir. Adam McKay)

83.  Strait-Jacket (1964, dir. William Castle)

84.  Tale of Tales (2015, dir. Matteo Garrone)

85.  Tallulah (2016, dir. Sian Heder)

86.  Teeth (2007, dir. Mitchell Lichtenstein)

87.  Tetsuo, the Iron Man (1989, dir. Shin’ya Tsukamoto)

88.  The Autopsy of Jane Doe (2016, dir. André Øvredal)

89.  The Babadook (2014, dir. Jennifer Kent)

90.  The Beguiled (2017, dir. Sofia Coppola)

91.  The Big Sick (2017, dir. Michael Showalter)

92.  The Birth of a Nation (2016, dir. Nate Parker)

93.  The Black Cauldron (1985, dir. Ted Berman and Richard Rich)

94.  The Bye Bye Man (2017, dir. Stacy Title)

95.  The Cable Guy (1996, dir. Ben Stiller)

96.  The Conjuring (2013, dir. James Wan)

97.  The Crying Game (1992, dir. Neil Jordan)

98.  The Founder (2016, dir. John Lee Hancock)

99.  The French Connection (1971, dir. William Friedkin)

100.                      The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017, dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

101.                      The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, dir. Martin Scorsese)

102.                      The Lego Batman Movie (2017, dir. Chris McKay)

103.                      The Lost City of Z (2016, dir. James Gray)

104.                      The Problem with Apu (2017, dir. Michael Melamedoff)

105.                      The Red Turtle (2016, dir. Michael Dudok de Wit)

106.                      The Sound of Music (1965, dir. Robert Wise)

107.                      The Vietnam War (2017, dir. Ken Burns and Lynn Novick)

108.                      The Visit (2015, dir. M. Night Shyamalan)

109.                      The Wizard of Lies (2017, dir. Barry Levinson)

110.                      The World’s Greatest Sinner (1962, dir. Timothy Carey)

111.                      The Yearling (1946, dir. Clarence Brown)

112.                      The Young Pope (2016, dir. Paolo Sorrentino)

113.                      Toni Erdmann (2016, dir. Maren Ade)

114.                      Total Recall (1990, dir. Paul Verhoeven)

115.                      Trainspotting (1996, dir. Danny Boyle)

116.                      Twin Peaks: The Return (2017, dir. David Lynch)

117.                      Vertigo (1957, dir. Alfred Hitchcock)

118.                      Watership Down (1978, dir. Martin Rosen)

119.                      Wayne’s World (1992, dir. Penelope Spheeris)

120.                      What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962, dir. Robert Aldrich)

121.                      Winter’s Bone (2010, dir. Debra Granik)

122.                      Wishful Drinking (2010, dir. Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato)

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Military space groups in New Mexico expand recruitment and STEM education for children

STEM Education AFRL’s STEM Academy provides curriculum and hands-on activities for students in kindergarten through high school including rocket launch competitions and simulated Mars missions. Space News, Debra Werner, October 3, 2023 #nuclear #antinuclear #nuclear-free #NoNukes “……….. Air Force Research Laboratory’s Space Vehicles Directorate along with other military space organizations at…

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by Debra Werner — April 13, 2020 This is an artist's rendering of a cluster of cubesats and small satellites sent in orbit on a Russian Soyuz rocket by Exolaunch, the German launch services provider formerly known as ECM-Space. Credit: Exolaunch SAN FRANCISCO — German launch services provider Exolaunch announced plans April 14 to send…

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- SOLD - Swamp Forest, Collection: S. Ribbe,, Wolfgang Schmidt

Swamp Forest - Sumpfwald Sincerely to: Andy Hall, Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Paul Allen, Edythe L. and Eli Broad, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz, Patricia and Gustavo Phelps de Cisneros (Venezuela and Dominican Republic), Donald and Mera Rubell, Steven A. Cohen, Theo Danjuma, Maria Baibakova, Adrian Cheng, Ingvild Goetz (München), Victoria and David Beckham, Leonardo Dicaprio, Alan Lau, Camilla Barella, Ralph DeLuca, Arthur de Ganay, Ramin Salsali, Moises Cosio, Pedro Barbosa, Monique and Max Burger, Joaquin Diez-Cascon, Luciano Benetton, Roman Abramovich and Dasha Zhukova (Russia), Robbie Antonio (Philippines), Hélène and Bernard Arnault (France), Maria and Bill Bell (United States), Peter Benedek (United States), Debra and Leon Black (United States), Christian and Karen Boros (Germany), Irma and Norman Braman (United States), Peter Brant (United States), Basma Al Sulaiman, Marc Andreessen, Laura and John Arnold, Camilla Barella, Swizz Beatz, Claudia Beck, Andrew Gruft, Robert and Renée Belfer, Lawrence Benenson, Frieder Burda (Germany), Richard Chang (United States), Kim Chang-il (Korea), David Chau and Kelly Ying (China), Pierre T.M. Chen (Taiwan), Adrian Cheng (China), Kemal Has Cingillioglu (United Kingdom), Nicolas Berggruen, Jill and Jay Bernstein, Ernesto Bertarelli, James Brett, Jim Breyer, Christian Bührle, Valentino D. Carlotti, Edouard Carmignac, Trudy and Paul Cejas, Dimitris Daskalopoulos (Greece), Zöe and Joel Dictrow (United States), George Economou (Greece), Alan Faena (Argentina), Mark Falcone and Ellen Bruss (United States), Amy and Vernon Faulconer (United States), Howard and Patricia Farber (United States), Larry and Marilyn Fields (United States), Marie Chaix, Michael and Eva Chow, Frank Cohen, Michael and Eileen Cohen, Isabel and Agustín Coppel, Anthony D'Offay, Hélène and Michel David-Weill, Antoine de Galbert, Ralph DeLuca, Amanda and Glenn Fuhrman (United States), Danielle and David Ganek (United States), Ken Griffin (United States), Agnes Gund (United States), Steven and Kathy Guttman (United States), Andrew and Christine Hall (United States), Lin Han (China), Henk and Victoria de Heus-Zomer (Holland), Grant Hill (United States), Maja Hoffmann (Switzerland), Erika Hoffmann-Koenige (Germany), Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, Beth Rudin DeWoody, Eric Diefenbach and JK Brown, David C. Driskell, Mandy and Cliff Einstein, Rebecca and Martin Eisenberg, Ginevra Elkann, Tim and Gina Fairfax, Dana Farouki, Michael and Susan Hort (United States), Guillaume Houzé (France), Wang Jianlin (China), Dakis Joannou (Greece), Alan Lau (China), Joseph Lau (China), Melva Bucksbaum and Raymond Learsy (United States), Agnes and Edward Lee (United Kingdom), Aaron and Barbara Levine (United States), Adam Lindemann (United States), Eugenio López (Mexico), Jho Low (China), Susan and Leonard Feinstein, Nicoletta Fiorucci, Josée and Marc Gensollen, Alan and Jenny Gibbs, Noam Gottesman, Florence and Daniel Guerlain, Paul Harris, Barbara and Axel Haubrok, Alan Howard, Fatima and Eskandar Maleki (United Kingdom), Martin Margulies (United States), Peter Marino (United States), Donald Marron (United States), David MartÍnez (United Kingdom and Mexico), Raymond J. McGuire (United States), Rodney M. Miller Sr. (United States), Simon and Catriona Mordant (Australia), Arif Naqvi (United Kingdom), Peter Norton (United States), Shi Jian, Elton John, Tomislav Kličko, Mo Koyfman, Jan Kulczyk, Svetlana Kuzmicheva-Uspenskaya, Pierre Lagrange, Eric and Liz Lefkofsky, Robert Lehrman, François Odermatt (Canada), Bernardo de Mello Paz (Brazil), José Olympio & Andréa Pereira (Brazil), Catherine Petitgas (United Kingdom), Victor Pinchuk (Ukraine), Alden and Janelle Pinnell (United States),Ron and Ann Pizzuti (United States), Michael Platt (Switzerland), Miuccia Prada and Patrizio Bertelli (Italy), Howard and Cindy Rachofsky (United States), Mitchell and Emily Rales (United States), Dan Loeb, George Lucas, Ninah and Michael Lynne, Lewis Manilow, Marissa Mayer, David Mirvish, Lakshmi Mittal, Valeria Napoleone, John Paulson, Amy and John Phelan, Ellen and Michael Ringier (Switzerland), David Roberts (United Kingdom), Hilary and Wilbur L. Ross Jr. (United States), Dmitry Rybolovlev (Russia), Lily Safra (Brazil),Tony Salamé (Lebanon), Patrizia Sandretto (Italy), Eric Schmidt (United States), Alison Pincus, Heather Podesta, Colette and Michel Poitevin, Thomas J. and Margot Pritzker, Bob Rennie, Craig Robins, Deedie and Rusty Rose, Stephen Ross, Alex Sainsbury, Alain Servais (Belgium), Carlos Slim (Mexico), Julia Stoschek (Germany), Budi Tek (Indonesia), Janine and J. Tomilson Hill III (United States), Trevor Traina (United States), Alice Walton (United States), Robert & Nicky Wilson (United Kingdom), Elaine Wynn (United States), Lu Xun (China), Muriel and Freddy Salem, Denise and Andrew Saul, Steven A. Schwarzman, Carole Server and Oliver Frankel, Ramin Salsali, David Shuman, Stefan Simchowitz, Elizabeth and Frederick Singer, Jay Smith and Laura Rapp, Jeffrey and Catherine Soros, Jerry Yang and Akiko Young (United States), Liu Yiqian and Wang Wei (China), Anita and Poju Zabludowicz (United Kingdom), Jochen Zeitz (South Africa), Qiao Zhibing (China), Jerry Speyer and Katherine G. Farley, Susana and Ricardo Steinbruch, Kai van Hasselt, Francesca von Habsburg, David Walsh, Artur Walther, Derek and Christen Wilson, Michael Wilson, Owen Wilson, Zhou Chong, Doris and Donald Fisher, Ronnie and Samuel Heyman, Marie-Josee and Henry R. Kravis, Evelyn and Leonard Lauder, Jo Carole and Ronald S. Laude, Francois Pinault (France), Udo Brandhost (Köln), Harald Falckenberg (Hamburg), Anna and Joseph Froehlich (Stuttgart), Hans Grothe (Bremen), UN Knecht (Stuttgart), Arendt Oetker (Köln), Inge Rodenstock (Grünwald), Ute and Rudolf Scharpff (Stuttgart), Reiner Speck (Köln), Eleonore and Michael Stoffel (Köln), Reinhold Würth (Niedernhall), Wilhelm and Gaby Schürmann, Ivo Wessel, Heiner and Celine Bastian, Friedrich Karl Flick, Monique and Jean-Paul Barbier-Mueller (Genf), Christa and Thomas Bechtler (Zürich), David Bowie (Lausanne), Ulla and Richard Dreyfus (Binningen und Gstaad), Georges Embiricos (Jouxtens and Gstaad), Friedrich Christian "Mick" Flick (Hergiswil and Gstaad), Esther Grether (Bottmingen), Donald Hess (Bolligen), Elsa and Theo Hotz (Meilen), Baroness Marion and Baron Philippe Lambert (Genf), Gabi and Werner Merzbacher (Zürich), Robert Miller (Gstaad), Philip Niarchos (St. Moritz), Jacqueline and Philippe Nordmann (Genf), Maja Oeri and Hans Bodenmann (Basel), George Ortiz (Vandoeuvres), Graf and Gräfin Giuseppe Panza di Biumo (Massagno), Ellen and Michael Ringier (Zürich), Andrew Loyd Webber, Steve Martin, Gerhard Lenz, Elisabeth and Rudolf Leopold.

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#UnDíaComoHoy: 15 de noviembre en la historia

El 15 de noviembre es el día 319º día del año. Quedan 46 días para finalizar el año. Estos son algunos de los eventos más destacados que ocurrieron un día como hoy 15 de noviembre.

-Hoy se celebra por iniciativa de la OMS, el Día Mundial Sin Alcohol. Es un día en el que gracias a diversas iniciativas se pretende concienciar a la población de las graves consecuencias que puede llegar a tener el consumo de alcohol. Este día se realizan diversas actividades en las que se intenta enseñar a los jóvenes las graves consecuencias que pueden llegar a tener si toman alcohol sin control, así como las consecuencias que tienen sus actos en caso de que hagan algo malo estando en el estado de embriaguez. En muchas ciudades del mundo se realizan jornadas en las que las personas pueden comprobar de primera mano las consecuencias que ha tenido el alcohol en un gran número de víctimas de tráfico cuyos accidentes fueron resultado de una excesiva ingesta de alcohol. Las campañas de prevención del mismo modo intentar concienciar a la población mundial de todas aquellos problemas que generan las adicciones, especialmente el alcohol. Pretender sensibilizar a las padres de la importancia que tiene enseñar a sus hijos los peligros que tiene el alcohol.

-1630: fallece Regensburg, Alemania, el filósofo y astrónomo alemán Johannes Kepler. El científico, nacido el 27 de diciembre de 1571 en Weil der Stadt, Alemania, fue quien descubrió que los planetas viajan en órbitas elípticas. De origen humilde, recibió una beca para estudiar en la Universidad de Tubinga y, en 1954, fue nombrado profesor de matemáticas en Austria. Investigando la refracción atmosférica de la luz, fue el primer científico en comprender cómo se comporta la luz en el interior del ojo, cómo las gafas pueden mejorar la visión y qué sucede con la luz dentro de un telescopio. En 1609 publicó el descubrimiento de que la órbita de Marte era una elipse y no un círculo perfecto como se creía hasta ese momento. Esta investigación fue la base para la primera de las tres leyes de Kepler del movimiento planetario.

-1819: muere en Cambridge, Reino Unido, Daniel Rutherford, botánico, médico y químico escocés que en 1772 descubrió la existencia del nitrógeno, el quinto elemento más abundante del universo.

-1906: Marie Curie dio su primera lección en la Sorbona de París (Francia).

-1915: nace el músico, compositor y arreglista dominicano Luis María Frómeta Pereira, conocido como Billo Frómeta.

-1919: muere Alfred Werner, químico suizo, Premio Nobel de Química en 1913.

-1920: en Ginebra (Suiza), se reúne por primera vez la Sociedad de Naciones.

-1940: nace Roberto Cavalli, diseñador de moda italiano. A comienzos de los años 1970, Cavalli inventó y patentó un revolucionario método para estampar cuero y comenzó a crear parches de diferentes materiales. Estas técnicas las presentó por primera vez en París, recibiendo inmediatamente encargos de Hermès y Pierre Cardin. Cuando tenía treinta años, presentó su primera colección en el Salón del Prêt-à-Porter de París para luego exhibirla en la Sala Blanca del Palacio Pitti de Florencia. En 1972, inauguró su primera boutique en Saint-Tropez, Francia.

-1943: en el marco del Holocausto, Heinrich Himmler ordena que los gitanos también sean deportados a campos de concentración. Heinrich Luitpold Himmler fue Comandante en Jefe (Reichsführer) de las SS y más tarde Ministro del Interior y fugazmente Comandante de los ejércitos del Rin durante el sitio de Berlín. Gestionó no solo la orden de la matanza metódica y sistemática de millones de polacos, judíos, gitanos, homosexuales y Bibelforscher, sino también de miles de prisioneros rusos, muchos de los cuales fueron usados en experimentos.

-1949: en India, Nathuram Godse y Naraian Apte son ejecutados por el asesinato de Mahatma Gandhi.

-1956: el cantante Elvis Presley hace su debut en la pantalla grande con la película “Love me tender”. El film, ambientado en Texas después de la guerra civil norteamericana, co-protagonizado por Richard Egan y Debra Paget, contó con Elvis interpretando el papel de Clint Reno, el hermano menor de un soldado. Presley, quien pasó a convertirse en uno de los íconos de la historia del entretenimiento, cantó en el éxito de taquilla “Love Me Tender”, así como en la mayoría de las 33 películas que hizo en su carrera.

-1969: se produjo en Washington, D.C. una gran movilización en la que aproximadamente unos 500 mil manifestantes se opusieron a la guerra de Vietnam, bautizando al movimiento como la ‘Marcha contra la Muerte’. Las protestas fueron organizadas por el Comité de Movilización Estudiantil y la New Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam con el fin de exigir una vez más, la retirada total e inmediata de los soldados estadounidenses en territorio vietnamita. El movimiento hippie fue el principal abanderado de este cambio social que propugnaba el libertarismo, el pacifismo y el amor libre.

-1971: Intel presenta el primer microprocesador de chip, el Intel 4004.

-1986: nace Jerry Roush, cantante y compositor estadounidense. Conocido por su participación en Of Mice & Men, Sky Eats Airplane y Glass Cloud.

-1988: el Consejo Nacional Palestino declara el Estado de Palestina.

-1990: el escritor argentino Adolfo Bioy Casares gana el Premio Cervantes. Es considerado uno de los escritores más importantes de su país y de la literatura en español. Parte de su reconocimiento se debe a su amistad con Jorge Luis Borges, con quien colaboró literariamente en varias ocasiones, y que lo consideró incluso uno de los más notables escritores argentinos.

-1991: nace Shailene Woodley, actriz estadounidense. Conocida por su participación en producciones como The Descendants, Divergente, Bajo la misma estrella, entre otras.

-1995: la Unesco aprueba el Día Mundial del Libro y de los Derechos de Autor.

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The beheading of John the Baptist, and the new-born Jesus Church of Debra Berhan, Gondar

Painted walls at the church of Debra Berhan, Gondar. (Debre Birhan Selassie Church) Country of Origin: Ethiopia. Culture: Coptic. Date/Period: 18th century. Place of Origin: Gondar. Credit Line: Werner Forman Archive. Debre Berhan Selassie Church is the best known of the churches of Gondar for its interior paintings. It avoided destruction by the Mahdists in 1888.

Other pictures from Gondar:

St George mounted on a white horse, Gondar church, Ethiopia, 18th century

St George mounted on a black horse, Gondar church, Ethiopia, 18th century

A King and his Army, Church of Debra Berhan, Gondar, Ethiopia, 18th century

Ethiopian Cavalry, Church of Debra Berhan, Gondar, Ethiopia, 18th century

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Debra J. Werner, DO, an Obstetrician-Gynecologist in private practice