LaDonna Zall's compassion, decades of service to Heart Mountain remembered
By CJ Baker
Sam Mihara spent three awful years incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during World War II, among the tens of thousands of Japanese Americans confined to prison camps by suspicious …
Joyce Harkness speaks about her partner, the late LaDonna Zall (shown smiling on the screen), during the annual Heart Mountain Pilgrimage on Saturday. Zall spent decades helping to tell the stories of the Japanese Americans who were incarcerated at the former relocation center between Powell and Cody.
Tribune photo by CJ Baker
Pete Simpson (center), the recipient of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation's 2021 LaDonna Zall Compassionate Witness Award, poses for a photo with fellow foundation board members and former incarcerees Sam Mihara (left) and Prentiss Uchida (right) during last week's Heart Mountain Pilgrimage.
Photo courtesy Darrell Kunitomi
Posted Thursday, July 29, 2021 8:25 am
LaDonna Zall
Sam Mihara spent three awful years incarcerated at the Heart Mountain Relocation Center during World War II, among the tens of thousands of Japanese Americans confined to prison camps by suspicious federal officials.
There were the armed guards, the terrible food, the awful weather and the cramped, uncomfortable accommodations at the camp, while Mihara's father went blind and his grandfather died.
"But the worst experience," Mihara said, "was going to downtown Cody."
When he and other Japanese Americans from the camp eventually got a chance to visit the city, Mihara said about every third store was posted with a sign saying "No Japs." And inside the businesses that were open to the incarcerees "everyone was frowning," he said, "not a single smile."
Mihara ultimately decided that he wanted nothing to do with Wyoming or its people. Nearly 50 years later, however, he passed through Cody as part of a trip to Yellowstone National Park. He inquired about touring the former camp site and was told to meet a woman in the shade of a pair of cottonwood trees just off U.S. Highway 14-A.
"I went up to her, and she smiled," Mihara recalled. "It was the first person from Wyoming who smiled at me. And I went, 'Oh my gosh, this is a different person.' And she said, 'I'm LaDonna, and I'm going to help you out.'"
The woman, the late LaDonna Zall, then guided Mihara through a farm field and right to the spot where he'd once lived. The memories came flooding back in a kind of homecoming.
"I really thank her for what she did," Mihara said.
He was just one of hundreds of people that Zall led around the site — and the tours were just one of the many things that she did to help preserve the former camp and the stories of those who were held there.
Zall, a longtime Powell area resident, died last month at the age of 87; at a Saturday memorial service hosted by the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation, speakers recalled and honored her more than three decades of service.
"LaDonna was in many very real ways the essence and the soul of the Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation," said Doug Nelson, the nonprofit's vice chair, "and for me it's hard, at least right now, to imagine this foundation without her."
As an 11-year-old, Zall cried as she watched the final traincar of incarcerees leave Heart Mountain in November 1945, as the U.S. government freed the last of the Japanese Americans.
"She was filled with sadness at what, as a little girl, she instinctively knew had been hurtful and wrong," Nelson said. "And that empathy, years later, led her to try, in so many different ways, to set things right."
In 1989, Zall became involved in what would become the Heart Mountain foundation. She quickly became the first registrar and curator of the materials that would eventually form the basis of the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center; she also donated faithfully to the foundation and inspired others to support the nonprofit as well.
"She always wanted to do everything for the program," said Zall's life partner, Joyce Harkness.
In her book, "Tales of Heart Mountain," Zall wrote that she had "the best job of all."
"I get to meet nice people, hear their stories and see the wonderful artifacts that they permit us to care for," she wrote.
Although the pandemic hindered her efforts, Zall had been helping to index all of the names that appeared in the camp's newspaper, the Heart Mountain Sentinel, so a search for a person turns up all of the articles in which they are mentioned. That work is expected to wrap up in the coming months.
Nelson said there was no way to measure all of the contributions Zall made to the foundation, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, and the interpretive center, which is marking its 10th.
"But it's not those contributions alone, which we are missing today: We are also mourning the loss of one extraordinary human being," Nelson said, praising Zall's authenticity, honesty, courage, warmth, kindness and compassion.
The Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation issues an annual LaDonna Zall Compassionate Witness Award, which recognizes "individuals whose families were not incarcerated during World War II, but who nonetheless have worked to expand awareness of the Japanese American incarceration."
This year's recipient was Pete Simpson of Cody, a member of the foundation's board of directors, historian and educator. Board chair Shirley Ann Higuchi said Simpson "has long been an icon and representative of what Wyoming is great for."
In selecting Simpson, the board specifically noted how he's supported the mission to educate the public about the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans; inspired thousands of Wyoming residents to seek higher education and public service; and helped inspire the creation and development of the foundation.
Simpson called the award the best and most important he's ever received, though he said no one carried out the mission of preserving the memory of the Heart Mountain Relocation Center better than Zall.
"This place wouldn't be here without love — and that's who brought it, right there," he said, pointing toward a smiling photograph of Zall on display. "She loved what she did, she had empathy for it and she didn't seek self-aggrandizement for it."
While Zall often spoke of the emotion she felt while watching the last train leave, Simpson recalled a visit to the camp with his Boy Scout troop. He shared a specific memory of throwing a football around with a Japanese American boy and being invited inside the boy's small tarpaper shack, where his mother offered a cup of hot cocoa.
The gesture impacted Simpson in a way that still moves him today.
"All of us carry with us — all of the incarcerees and their descendants ... — carry this emotion as a part of what we do," he said, "to make sure nothing like that can occur again."


Haniyeh addresses the ceremony.
Qatari-funded Gaza neighborhood advances
Ismail Haniyeh marks the beginning of the second phase of the Hamed City project, which will build a new neighborhood in Khan Yunis; Qatar also pledges a further $30 million for electricity infrastructure.
Liad Osmo & Elior Levy|Published: 02.11.17 , 21:21
A new neighborhood in Khan Yunis in the south of the Gaza Strip was inaugurated on Saturday morning as the second phase of the Hamed City project, funded by Qatar, which includes 1,060 homes.
The ceremony was attended by senior Palestinian official and former Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh. He told the crowd that the Emir of Qatar, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, will transfer an additional $100 million to help rebuild the strip. A quarter of that sum will be dedicated to building a hospital in Rafah. A tenth of the total sum is earmarked for erecting a hospital for special-needs patients in Gaza City.
Hamed City project
Haniyeh speaking at the ceremony
Addressing the electricity crisis in the strip, Haniyeh said that the Qatari emir will donate $30 million to establish electricity infrastructure. This is in addition to the $12 million that he has already pledged over the next three months to be used to buy fuel for Gaza's power station. Haniyeh stated that Turkey was also helping with the crisis.
The Hamed City project involves the construction of a new neighborhood in Khan Yunis that will include two schools, a mosque and parks. Its first phase began a year ago.
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Kellyanne Conway Calls Out Joe Biden's Lack of Sympathy over Accusations
By Evie Fordham
White House counselor Kellyanne Conway asked why former vice president Joe Biden can apologize "to Anita Hill for his role in the Clarence Thomas hearings" but not a woman who accused him of inappropriate touching during an appearance on "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace.
"Joe Biden this week was apologizing to Anita Hill for his role in the Clarence Thomas hearings," Conway said Sunday.
"Why didn't he apologize to Lucy? Why didn't he apologize to this woman? They never apologize to the individual, and I think the way the media covered everything from collusion to Kavanaugh to the Covington kids means they are to be able to cover issues like this."
Former Democratic Nevada Assemblywoman Lucy Flores accused Biden of sniffing her hair and kissing the back of her head without her consent in 2014. Biden was campaigning for her at the time.
"First of all, this woman Lucy is very bold to come forward, and I would remind the audience that she shares Joe Biden's political party. I think Joe Biden has a big problem here, because he calls it affection and handshakes.
"His party calls it completely inappropriate," Conway said on "Fox News Sunday."
Flores detailed the alleged experience in "An Awkward Kiss Changed How I Saw Joe Biden" in New York Magazine on Friday.
"I felt him get closer to me from behind. … He proceeded to plant a big slow kiss on the back of my head. My brain couldn't process what was happening.
"I was embarrassed. I was shocked. I was confused."
"There is a Spanish saying, 'tragame tierra,' it means, 'earth, swallow me whole.' I couldn't move and I couldn't say anything. I wanted nothing more than to get Biden away from me," she wrote.
Biden responded to Flores's claims in a statement Sunday.
"In my many years on the campaign trail and in public life, I have offered countless handshakes, hugs, expressions of affection, support and comfort. And not once — never — did I believe I acted inappropriately.
"If it is suggested I did so, I will listen respectfully. But it was never my intention," Biden said according to The Associated Press.
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Three more affiliates from three countries join the growing number of public organisations committed to independent monitoring of their electronics supply chain
Nottingham Trent University (UK), the City of Sant Boi de Llobregat in Catalonia (Spain), and Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen (Netherlands), are the latest public institutions to affiliate to Electronics Watch, bringing the total number of 'founding members' up to 15.
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The Mobile Social Congress discusses a fairer electronics industry
The Mobile Social Congress, an alternative congress promoting a fairer electronics industry, took place on Tuesday 23 February in the afternoon at Casinet d'Hostafrancs in Barcelona. It is an initiative led by SETEM, Electronics Watch's partner in Spain, in collaboration with several organizations, including Amnesty International Catalonia, the Catalan network of organisation for the Democratic Republic of Congo, Fairphone, the telecommunications cooperative Eticom, the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) and the open telecommunications network Guifinet.
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What is a Carp
Screwball Looks, Lonely Places
by Zach Matthews
Still not convinced that fly fishing for carp is any great shakes? In truth, sight-fishing for carp can challenge your stalking and presentation skills in ways that few other types of fly fishing can.
TEN YEARS AGO, maybe even fifteen, you'd have gotten a strange look if you mentioned flyfishing for carp anywhere this side of the Atlantic. Since then, carp seem to have become the species everyone feels obliged to mention at least once. You see carp in magazines, in books, even on the occasional flyfishing television show.
Although some of these articles and books have been very good, carp have still managed to slip under the radar of the American angling public. In Europe, carp fishing is an established and expanding sport. Whole magazines are dedicated to the species and anglers routinely make the local newspapers gripping-and-grinning these fish like they know something we don't. After all, here in the United States the average angler would rather be photographed knee-deep in his sinking drift boat than be discovered to have hooked a carp, much less to have caught it and looked proud about doing so. Sure, some enlightened anglers have begun to target carp — usually out of curiosity or boredom with still more trout. But if you asked a guy on the street to tell you about carp, he'd give you a funny look and inform you, sonny, that carp are widely known to be the nastiest, slimiest, plug-ugliest, bottom-dwelling-est fish on the continent. So before I get into why I not only respect the species but actively seek to embarrass myself by catching them, maybe a brief review of the carp's less-than-noble history in the United States is in order.
How Did an Overgrown Asian Goldfish Get in My Trout Stream?
The common carp, cyprinus carpio, is nothing more and nothing less than the largest minnow in the world. (Before your prejudices are confirmed, look into the noble tarpon's not-so-prestigious relationship with the common herring, the silver king's 'other side of the sheets' little brother). Although the carp is native to central Asia, it was intentionally introduced in the United States in the 19th century, as (you guessed it) a fast growing, cheap and potentially abundant source of food for the expanding nation. Unfortunately, the carp's greatest strength, its superhero tolerance for pollutants and poor living conditions, turned out to be its Achilles' heel. Compare, for example, late 20th century tests of the 1600 most common pollutants in United States waters (of which only 135 were found to be fatal to carp) with the many ways one can kill an average rainbow trout. Trout roll over like kryptonite was dumped in the stream if a heavy rain falls in the neighboring county. Yet, it is this very tolerance that has given carp such a bad name. After all, who wants to catch a fish that lives in the cesspool behind the office parking lot, casting between Styrofoam cups? Ah, but correlation does not equal causation, my friend.
Just because a carp can live in the worst conditions does not mean all carp do live in the worst conditions. The two best places to catch carp in my home area are the local trout stream and the local lake, a source of drinking water for the city. Moreover, few practical fly-fishing locales are likely to be as polluted as that storm drain behind the office complex. Remember that a carp's tolerance range includes the beautiful as well as the ugly, and that clean rivers make for clean fish.
Ok, Assuming I Might Want to Catch Them, How Do I Do It?
The most common misconception about carp fishing is that it is easy. It isn't. People assume that carp are easy to catch for the same reason they assume all carp are diseased: nothing that ugly could be difficult to trick. Fortunately, this second belief is just as flawed as the first. Carp are, in all likelihood, the spookiest, trickiest, smartest fish found in the waters of the United States. They have phenomenally sensitive mouths equipped with chemically receptive cells which allow the carp to distinguish food from foe in an instant. In addition, carp actually have nostrils, small holes near the eye sockets which flush in water and allow the carp to sample its surroundings like a lizard testing the air with its tongue. Once spooked, a carp emits an alarm pheromone which alerts other carp to the danger. Thus, one shot is often all you get, even in waters where the carp experience no fishing pressure.
The best thing about carp fishing in the United States is the availability of fish and water. Ever wonder what trout fishing in the early 17th century would have been like? Visions of empty water chock full of uneducated fish swim before the eyes; the angler versus the fish with only the fish's native wiliness to avail it. Those days are gone, friend. If there's a trout inside the United States that has yet to see a wooly bugger it either lives inside a volcano or it will soon be riding in a hatchery truck. Carp, however, may as well be new to this earth.
Europe, as mentioned, has organized carp angling which selects for educated fish, mimicking the arms race that has already occurred between North American anglers and salmonids. Carp, with such an impressive biological arsenal already at their command, are certain to quickly reach new levels of uncatchability once angling pressure begins in earnest. And, just as saltwater fishing opened up in the previous decades, so too will carp fishing in the coming years. The nature of our expanding population and diminishing trout resources practically make a growing carp fishery inevitable, and if you don't yet believe it, look to Europe.
The tools for catching carp were largely developed in the great saltwater laboratories of the past decade or so. Although blind fishing is an option, the thrill of catching carp is in the stalk, just as it is with redfish and bonefish, so I focus on sight-fishing alone. Carp in common conditions can easily cross twenty pounds, so be prepared with strong tackle appropriate to the situation. Eight weights with high-end reels are appropriate for river situations, but consider scaling up to a ten weight if you target carp in waters deep enough for them to sound. Horsing a carp out from under a dock is particularly difficult. Pay close attention to the terminal tackle. Most modern saltwater lines are merely adequate for carp fishing, which often demands trout-like presentations with larger food sources. Avoid bass bugs and other tapers which might turn a fly over too aggressively. Use tapered leaders at least as long as the rod, but use the strongest leader material you can get away with. Ten pound Climax fluorocarbon is my usual tippet.
Flies range from my personal favorite, the Crazy Charlie in whatever color matches the stream bottom, to orange-headed wooly buggers in white and olive, and egg-patterns colored to resemble mulberries, corn, or trout eggs. Choose patterns based on the vegetable as well as animal sides of the menu, because carp are omnivorous. Additionally, have a look around the web. Carp fishers are scattered widely enough for some real regional varieties to develop in fly selection, and most of the best patterns aren't commercially available.
Carp are at their trickiest, and most rewarding, when the sun is high and the water is slick. Although I am not above chumming up some lake carp for a quick evening of bulldogging some fish, I find the early afternoon carp stalk to be among the most entertaining forms of fly-fishing I have experienced. Wear polarized sunglasses and locate a section of your local carp water, whether river or lake, which allows for shallow wading. Even granddaddy carp will tail in less than six inches of water. Begin your stalk upriver (or upwind in still water), with the sun wherever you can see ahead of you best. I find it helps to use the reflections of trees or nearby hills to cut some of the glare off the water. Again, polaroids are absolutely not optional: you need them avoid wasting your time. Carp will skim across the flats seemingly at random, sometimes holding in predictable patterns and sometimes meandering about. Usually they are looking for food, which they attack by hoovering up the sediment and filtering out crustaceans, plant matter, and bugs. Just as a bonefish puffs away at the bottom, so will a carp root for his dinner. In deeper water, carp will sip debris lines just like trout, picking mayflies, caddisflies, or seedpods off the surface with an audible slurp.
On the flat, approach the carp from "over his shoulder," and carefully wade as close as necessary for a really clean cast. For the best results with a ten-pound carp (my target size with an eight weight) you will want to be able to hit a three-inch target thirty feet away. That three-inch strike zone is usually immediately "behind his ear," or in the slot just between his pectoral fin and his eye, approximately six inches away from the fish. Cast for distance first as the fish are not line shy, then lay the fly in with an audible plop (but not a splash). If you are lucky, the carp will turn to see a potential food source drifting down and will grab before the adage about being too good to be true finishes flashing before his eyes. This cast usually gets me about 50-50 results when I nail it. Some carp will blow out of the pool the minute the fly makes contact. Because of those chemical signals, the best bet is to wade to the bank and start over a couple hundred feet away.
Another approach makes use of the carp's feeding proclivities. Like a bonefish, carp often spot prey by the puffs of sediment the critters send up when scurrying away from danger. When you see a carp prowling for food, lead your fishy receiver like a quarterback by just a few yards and give your fly time to sink. I particularly enjoy this method with a Crazy Charlie or similar hook-upwards pattern. Let the fly settle, then when the carp comes in range, twitch it just enough to stir up some dust. Usually, the carp will be on you like a duck on a June bug.
Eat the Wind Out of His Sails
Carp are dogged, never-say-die fighters. On light saltwater tackle, in a river, you have a good chance of landing even a large specimen. In open water, plan for some power-cleaning. The first time I fair hooked a carp, no chum and all hands aboveboard, was on a cane 5 weight with an outdated Orvis Battenkill 5/6 disc drag reel. I broke him off just as he was getting up to plane — thirty feet into my backing! Two other jumbo specimens played me the same song that day, but I came back better armed with an eight weight and a saltwater-class reel. Dial your drag up to 'never say die' and lean into the fish.
Carp fight like a cross between a redfish and a bonefish — hard, jagged runs, one after another, and a net-run at the finish for certain. Nothing short of a full grown striper will pull like that in most rivers where carp are found.
In a river, play the carp like you would a really big trout, turning his head at the end of a run and working him against the current. If you don't have a buddy with a really big net handy, let him waterski himself across the current and right out onto the bank, where you can subdue him. As Lefty Kreh says, "don't burn your golf balls" – treat the fish right and release him with as much care as you would a baby brookie. Besides taking natural selection and the inevitable arms race out of the picture, it is just the decent thing to do. If you want to try eating a carp, be my guest. I may be enlightened but some cooties really stick.
This Ain't No Beauty Contest
I may have referred to carp as 'plug ugly' a time or two in the past. I did this before I really came to know them. No carp I have landed to date has been anything short of elegant. If redfish with their beauty spots and bonefish with their sucker mouths can grace the covers of our finer fishing magazines, carp deserve their shot too. This is a pleasure that is certain not to last. The golden days of empty rivers and screwball looks can only last so long, friends, and though I drive in a nail by saying so, you really must try this.
~ ref: http://www.midcurrent.com, Aug 2010, by Zach Matthews a writer and photographer from East Tennessee. He edits The Itinerant Angler (www.itinerantangler.com) and is a regular contributor to American Angler magazine. Article copyright © 2006 by Zach Matthews.
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Singing in the Saddle
"After finding traces of Yellowstone Chip's writing at the historic OTO Dude Ranch north of Yellowstone National Park, Nan Weber tracked Chip's history. In the course of her research, she found Chip's memoirs, his music, his cartooning, and his family. Chip's story follows his travels from his Illinois childhood home to the majesty of the Western United States. His lively journey encompasses music, cowboy life, and, most of all, people. His is the story of a true singing cowboy." – Book Synopsis
Yellowstone Has Teeth
"Few people have experienced Yellowstone National Park like Marjane Ambler. She and her husband lived in a tiny community near the shores of Yellowstone Lake, deep in the park's interior. The natural beauty was magnificent, but Ambler and her neighbors discovered that Yellowstone "had teeth." It could be an unforgiving place where mistakes mattered. In this well-constructed narrative, Ambler reveals a hidden Yellowstone, a place where delight and danger are separated by the slimmest of margins: a degree of pitch on an avalanche slope, a few inches of a buffalo's horn, a moment during a deadly wildfire." – Back Cover
Ho! For Wonderland: Travelers' Accounts of Yellowstone, 1872-1914
"Since it became the world's first national park in 1872, Yellowstone has welcomes tourists from all corners of the globe who returned to their hometowns and countries with reports of this American wonderland. Stories from the park's earliest visitors began to spread so rapidly that by 1897 Yellowstone became solidly established as a successful tourist destination with more than ten thousand tourists passing through its entrances. Travelers in the park's first years faced long, dusty, and tediously slow stagecoach trips and could choose only between rather primitive hotels and tent camps for their overnight accommodations. Devoured by nineteenth-century readers, many of the narratives from this era are long forgotten today and are only gradually being recovered from historical archives. Park historians Lee Whittlesey and Elizabeth Watry have combed thousands of firsthand accounts, selecting nineteen tales that offer unique and engaging perspectives of visitors during Yellowstone's stagecoach era." – Back Cover
Yellowstone Summers: Touring with the Wylie Camping Company
"In 1872 Congress established Yellowstone National Park, and its vast wonders soon mesmerized early sightseers. One of them, school superintendent William Wallace Wylie, visited in July 1880 and was immediately smitten, arranging his fist tour group a few weeks later. His initial effort evolved into a full-fledged business, and from 1896 to 1905 the Wylie Camping Company fed, sheltered, and guided thousands of Victorian vacationers through relaxed week-long tours of geysers, hot pools, waterfalls, and trails." -Back Cover
A Ride to the Infernal Regions: Yellowstone's First Tourists
"A little-known and previously unavailable account of the first tourist party to Yellowstone National Park. In 1871, inspired by sketchy reports of Yellowstone's wonders, six Montanans made a horseback trip to see the park's geysers, lakes, and canyons. Lively and well-written with a detailed introduction and narrative footnotes. Yellowstone National Park Historian, Lee Whittlesey, say Great Job! An outstanding publication that fills a big void." – Book Synopsis
Adventures in Yellowstone: Early Travelers Tell Their Tales
"After its establishment in 1872, Yellowstone National Park was sufficiently famous that a surprising number of people risked bear maulings, Indian attacks, and geyser burns just to glimpse its wonders. Many of those who survived wrote about their adventures. The best of those stories are collected here, in "Adventures in Yellowstone." This compilation includes a dozen narratives – journal entries, letters, and diaries – with individual introductions as well as historic photographs, postcards, and woodcuts." – Back Cover
Rough Trip Through Yellowstone
"In the winter of 1894, the magazine Forest and Stream sent one of its most talented writers, Emerson Hough, to Yellowstone National Park to document the decline in bison. Under the tutelage of legendary guide Billy Hofer, Hough learned to ski on 12-foot-long wooden slats. He witnessed the arrest of notorious poacher Ed Howell caught red-handed skinning a bison and met pioneering photographer F. Jay Haynes. Undertaking a tough, 200-mile trip on skis, Hough, Haines and Hofer came up with the best census of the park s bison and elk that anyone had yet achieved. Hough wrote up the expedition in a series of 14 articles. The series motivated the United States Congress to pass the anti-poaching Lacey Act and helped turn public opinion against a proposed railroad through the park. " – Back Cover
Death in Yellowstone: Accidents and Foolhardiness in the First National Park, 2nd Edition
"The chilling tome that launches an entire genre of books about the often gruesome but always tragic ways people have died in our national parks, this updated edition of the classic includes calamities in Yellowstone from the past sixteen years, including the infamous grizzly bear attacks in the summer of 2011 as well as a fatal hot springs accident in 2000. In these accounts, written with sensitivity as cautionary tales about what to do and what not to do in one of our wildest national parks, Whittlesey recounts deaths ranging from tragedy to folly – from being caught in a freak avalanche to the goring of a photographer who just got a little too close to a bison. Armchair travelers and park visitors alike will be fascinated by this important book detailing the dangers awaiting in our first national park. " – Book Synopsis
Women in Wonderland: Lives, Legends, and Legacies of Yellowstone National Park
"With the publication of Peter Nabokov's "Restoring a Presence: American Indians and Yellowstone National Park", the narrative of Yellowstone's cultural history has become more inclusive in recent years, but it is still missing an important component – the contributions of women. It is my sincerest desire, with this volume, to remedy that omission by giving women of Yellowstone a voice that will be heard through centuries. Like much of America's history, Yellowstone's historical narratives contains numerous stories of adventures, heroics, and contributions of men, while the contributions of women have become invisible and largely forgotten. As there are far more women whose lives were influenced and shaped by their experiences in the park than "Women in Wonderland" encompasses, this book represents merely the beginning of reclaiming Yellowstone's women from obscurity." – Section from Introduction
John Colter: His Years in the Rockies
"John Colter was a crack hunter with the Lewis and Clark expedition before striking out on his own as a mountain man and fur trader. A solitary journey in the winter of 1807-8 took him into present-day Wyoming. To unbelieving trappers he later reported sights that inspired the name of Colter's Hell. It was a sulfurous place of hidden fires, smoking pits, and shooting water. And it was real. John Colter is known to history as probably the first white man to discover the region that now includes Yellowstone National Park. In a classic book, first published in 1952, Burton Harris weighs the facts and legends about a man who was dogged by misfortune and 'robbed of the just rewards he had earned.'" – Back Cover
Through Early Yellowstone" Adventuring by Bicycle, Covered Wagon, Foot, Horseback, and Skis
"An anthology of entertaining accounts of travel through Yellowstone, this book takes readers back to 1871, before it was a tourist destination, through the time when autos were allowed into the park. The adventurers include an intrepid mother who posted the sign "Park or Bust" on her family's covered wagon, a strong cyclist and a hiker who traversed the whole park for fun, an expert guide on skis, and a New York horsewoman who presented park management with a plan for an interconnected circuit of bridle trails. Along with numerous historical photos and artwork, the book features a color gallery of watercolor paintings by Thomas Henry Thomas from 1884 and have never been seen outside of Wales." – Book Synopsis
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Klopp speaks on Liverpool winning Premier League, Champions League this season
Liverpool manager, Jurgen Klopp, has said he is not "good enough" to decide, whether he will prioritise winning the Premier League over retaining Liverpool's Champions League title this season.
Klopp won his first European title last term, with victory against Tottenham in Madrid.
But the Reds had finished one point behind Manchester City in the league.
Liverpool have not won the league title since 1989/1990, but Klopp is refusing to set any specific targets at this stage of the campaign.
"Unfortunately I am not good enough to decide that! I have to take what I can get. That is how it is.
"We didn't decide last year that we would go for the Champions League and ignore the Premier League obviously so we just try to win the next football game.
"That is [Wednesday] night and that is difficult enough. I am not a genius so I have to take what I can get.
"Last year thankfully we won something, celebrated it, so now let's carry on," Klopp told the media ahead of the Super Cup match against Europa League winners Chelsea in Istanbul on Wednesday.
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WOMEN WHO RULE: Why We Are Obsessed With TV's Most Formidable Females
Right now there's a revolution going on in television land. Some of the biggest shows - attracting massive male and female audiences worldwide - feature strong, empowered women in the lead roles.
And by empowered we don't mean ballsy, women-acting-like-men characters. We are talking about women who are multi-dimensional, intriguing and flawed. Some are leading the nation, some are barely surviving - all are real and absolutely compelling to watch. Here's our list of TV women who rule:
Madeline Martha Mackenzie (Reese Witherspoon) Big Little Lies
She's smart, forthright, educated and confident. And when she's passionate about something, get out of her way. If Madeline Mackenzie has a cause to champion she will fight for it to the death. She's also loyal and bitingly funny, the kind of person everyone wants to hang out with. Time to make her your new best friend.
"I only do 20 hrs a week max. Between you and I, I try and maintain my full-time mommy status, so I can lord it over women like Renata and the other career mommies."
Selina Meyer (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) Veep
Being the first female president of the United States means you have to be doing something right. And in Selina Meyer's case, it's whatever is right for herself. Arrogant and entitled, she has defied the female odds and clawed her way to America's highest office. She can browbeat any congressman into line but she's way from perfect as a world leader – actually rather incompetent, which just makes this Emmy smash hit more realistic and hilarious. For a woman that packs the perfect political punch-line, we Vote1 Selina Meyer in Veep.
Sansa Stark (Sophie Turner) Game of Thrones
You could be forgiven for questioning Sansa's inclusion in our list of "Women who Rule" if you had only watched her in the first season of Game of Thrones. Back then she was naive, idealistic and foolish. But Sansa has undergone one of the most complex character growths of this ground breaking series. The teen royal who endured unspeakable trauma has transformed into a shrewd, politically-savvy woman. Now unafraid to deliver ice-cold insults to Peytr Baelish or challenge her brother, the King in the North, Sansa is, above all things, a survivor. Something she will need now that Winter is here.
Celeste Wright (Nicole Kidman) Big Little Lies
When everyone admires your beauty, your hot husband, your perfect children and your luxurious lifestyle, the last thing you want to do is reveal the ugly truth, or worse, admit it to yourself. Instead Celeste focuses on her family's happiness and her friends' needs, supporting them generously and lovingly. This is a woman as complex as the predicament in which she finds herself. No one would want to step into her shoes but every viewer wants to walk alongside her...
Dolores Abernathy (Evan Rachel Wood) Westworld
Like Sansa Stark, Dolores Abernathy knows what it is to be at the mercy of men, particularly those who know nothing of such a virtue. Dolores is shy, passive and been subjected to untold suffering. Yet instead of it destroying her, Dolores discovers the strength and courage she needs to take control of her destiny. This is female empowerment at its best. Dolores Abernathy will no longer be defined by her past because now, she is the one taking control and seeking revenge.
Jane Chapman (Shailene Woodley) Big Little Lies
When 24-year-old single mum Jane Chapman arrives in money-soaked Monterey there seems nothing particularly remarkable about her. Yet that is precisely what makes her so interesting. And as we witness her trauma-riddled flashbacks, we discover that Jane is carrying a harrowing burden she has never shared with anyone. Hiding such a secret is not surprising but how Jane copes with it is honest, thought-provoking and undeniably great TV.
Brienne of Tarth (Gwendoline Christie) Game of Thrones
How good would it be to have a friend like GOT's Brienne of Tarth? Loyal beyond comprehension, brave and a total gun in any fight, physical or verbal, Brienne of Tarth is a woman you want on your side. Just ask Jaime Lannister, who developed unexpected feelings for her. While he had only ever had eyes for Cersei, Jaime saw in Brienne the qualities that elevate her above so many others: honour, kindness, integrity and utter fearlessness.
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0 Elizabeth Wein, author of A THOUSAND SISTERS, on when a story falls perfectly into place
We're excited to have Elizabeth Wein stop by to share more about her latest book, A THOUSAND SISTERS: THE HEROIC AIRWOMEN OF THE SOVIET UNION IN WORLD WAR II.
Elizabeth, what was your inspiration for writing A THOUSAND SISTERS?
I've known about these incredible aviators for at least ten years, and even included a fictional Soviet fighter pilot named Irina Korsakova as a minor character in my 2013 novel, Rose Under Fire. I've always wanted to write about these women, but felt that I didn't know enough about Russian culture and Soviet history to be able to get inside the head of a viewpoint character in a novel.
So when Kristin Rens asked if I'd be interested in working on a non-fiction volume about these aviators, I loved the idea. I thought it would be a good way to write about them without having to fully immerse myself in their emotional and mental background – although, as I did the necessary research, I ended up immersed in it anyway! (And as a result, I did after all write some fiction about a Soviet woman pilot: a short YA novel called FIREBIRD, published in 2018 by Barrington Stoke in the UK.)
The hardest part of this book to write was the prologue – it got written after all the rest of the book was finished. My editor Kristin and I talked about the need for a strong introduction, something that would draw in young readers and help them to relate to the work's very unusual and alien material – something to shoehorn readers into the world of these young women battling on the other side of the globe in 1943.
That "shoehorn" was the screenplay written by the American novelist William Faulkner for an unfilmed Hollywood epic called BATTLE CRY. A large part of the BATTLE CRY script is devoted to a segment about a pair of Soviet women bomber pilots, based on a radio play from a patriotic series broadcast during wartime. When I uncovered the background for this segment of the film, it seemed the perfect way to make the story accessible. Hollywood in wartime! A Nobel prize-winning American novelist! A-list actors! A possible enemy chemical weapons attack in Los Angeles! It was so fascinating that the true story felt magical – heaven-sent.
I spent a solid week drafting the prologue, sent it off with trepidation, and Kristin loved it. It was exactly what the book needed and worked perfectly.
I am proud of it and also kind of amazed that it exists – that the story fell into place so perfectly.
Gwen Katz has written a thoroughly researched and moving novel for young adults about one of these Soviet regiments – her book is called AMONG THE RED STARS. It's about a young female night bomber pilot and a daring rescue.
For a terrific novel about a young American woman flying in World War II, try FLYGIRL by Sherri L. Smith. The heroine is an African American teen who has to pass as white in order to join the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP).
If you want to learn more about the Soviet Union in World War II, M.T. Anderson's young adult non-fiction SYMPHONY FOR THE CITY OF THE DEAD tells a breathtaking story of the tragic siege of the Leningrad, intertwined with a moving biography of the composer Dmitri Shostakovich.
How long did you work on A THOUSAND SISTERS?
I began research for the book in June 2016, wrote the main body of the text in stages during 2017, and completed the prologue (see above!) in January 2018. I spent most of 2018 revising, fact-checking, and creating end notes and a bibliography for the book. So – about two-and-a-half years altogether.
I found it an unexpected pleasure to be working on non-fiction – something that I wasn't making up. I still had to figure out how to tell the story, much as I do when I'm writing fiction, but the plot wasn't up to me. It didn't actually make it easier – more like a puzzle that had to be solved. I enjoyed that and wouldn't mind doing it again.
I was also surprised at how invested I became in learning about Soviet history, a thing I never imagined I would take an interest in. Now I am genuinely fascinated by it.
Was there an AHA! moment along your road to publication where something suddenly sank in and you felt you had the key to writing this book? What was it?
Not so much the key to writing a book in general, but I did have an "AHA!" moment over how to end A THOUSAND SISTERS and tie everything together. I was watching a production of Sting's musical THE LAST SHIP at Northern Stage in Newcastle, England, and the show ended with a "call to action" as the narrator challenged the audience to go out into the world and create positive change. I realized that in many ways this was also the message of A THOUSAND SISTERS – that one individual can make a difference. So I tried to make a similar challenge at the end of the book. Indeed, the last sentence urges the reader to "Go out and change the wind."
There are so many ways we can shape our world – I hope that this book inspires readers to fly!
A Thousand Sisters: The Heroic Airwomen of the Soviet Union in World War II
In the early years of World War II, Josef Stalin issued an order that made the Soviet Union the first country in the world to allow female pilots to fly in combat. Led by Marina Raskova, these three regiments, including the 588th Night Bomber Regiment—nicknamed the "night witches"—faced intense pressure and obstacles both in the sky and on the ground. Some of these young women perished in flames. Many of them were in their teens when they went to war.
This is the story of Raskova's three regiments, women who enlisted and were deployed on the front lines of battle as navigators, pilots, and mechanics. It is the story of a thousand young women who wanted to take flight to defend their country, and the woman who brought them together in the sky.
Packed with black-and-white photographs, fascinating sidebars, and thoroughly researched details, A Thousand Sisters is the inspiring true story of a group of women who set out to change the world, and the sisterhood they formed even amid the destruction of war.
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Elizabeth Wein has lived in Scotland for over 10 years and wrote nearly all her novels there. Her first five books for young adults are set in Arthurian Britain and sixth-century Ethiopia. The most recent of these form the sequence The Mark of Solomon, published in two parts as THE LION HUNTER (2007) and THE EMPTY KINGDOM (2008). THE LION HUNTER was short-listed for the Andre Norton Award for Best Young Adult Fantasy and Science Fiction in 2008. Elizabeth also writes short stories.
Elizabeth's latest novel for teens is a departure in a totally new direction. CODE NAME VERITY is a World War II thriller in which two young girls, one a Resistance spy and the other a transport pilot, become unlikely best friends. A companion novel, ROSE UNDER FIRE, won the 2014 ALA Schneider Family Book Award for Teens.
Have you had a chance to read A THOUSAND SISTERS yet? Have you tried writing nonfiction? What type of "call to action" would you put at the end of your current WIP? Share your thoughts about the interview in the comments!
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Caring & Giving Employee Spotlight
This Unique Johnson & Johnson Program Lets Employees Take Paid Time Off Work to Do Good
We're spotlighting four staffers who've taken advantage of the company's Extended Volunteer Leave Policy to help people in need.
By Alice Oglethorpe April 23, 2017
For most people, volunteering gets squeezed into free evenings or weekends.
But for Johnson & Johnson employees, there's another option. Thanks to the Extended Volunteer Leave Policy, eligible individuals can take up to two weeks away—one paid—from their jobs to volunteer at a non-profit, using their skills and expertise to help make a difference in the world.
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The policy puts Johnson & Johnson in a small but growing group of companies that allow workers to truly immerse themselves in a volunteer project for an extended period of time, enabling them to make even more of an impact.
So for National Volunteer Week, we spoke to four Johnson & Johnson staffers who took advantage of the program to spend time off from work not on a vacation, but on a mission to help impact the lives of others—and their own, too.
Giving Guatemalan Children a Reason to Smile
Reinhard Juraschek, Ph.D., Associate Director of Research & Development, Ethicon
Every February for the past six years, Reinhard Juraschek has taken advantage of the Extended Volunteer Leave Policy and boarded a plane bound for the Guatemalan highlands. In a small town with little access to healthcare, he joins the Rotary International's Iowa MOST (Miles of Smiles) team, which performs cleft lip and palate surgeries on children.
What It's Like to Go on an Operation Smile Mission
Cleft lips and cleft palates are birth defects in which a piece of the lip or palate (the soft tissue at the top of the mouth) is missing. In places like the U.S., such birth defects are operated on immediately, but that's not the case in the highlands of Guatemala.
"The kids born with this defect grow up being stigmatized and not accepted in society," says Juraschek, who lives in New Jersey. "It also impacts speech—they aren't able to enunciate certain sounds, which makes them sound unintelligent."
It's so rewarding when a kid runs his tongue over his lip and can't believe it's been fixed. This was a way to do something with my skills and background that was completely, undoubtedly good.
That's where Juraschek and his team come in: One week every year, they return to the region and perform much-needed surgeries to fix the birth defects.
Juraschek on one of his trips to Guatemala
"At Johnson & Johnson, I do research and development for plastic and reproductive surgery," Juraschek says. "I was worried I wouldn't be helpful because I'm a scientist, not a surgeon, but it turns out there are a lot of things for me to do."
To wit, he's helped out as a nurse in the recovery room, where he sang to kids as they woke up; helped streamline processes and improve procedures on-site; and even developed additional side missions, like fixing kids' teeth with help from volunteer dentists.
"It's so rewarding when a kid who is 12 or 14 runs his tongue over his lip and can't believe it's been fixed, or a parent sees their little one after the surgery," Juraschek says. "This was a way to do something with my skills and background that was completely, undoubtedly good."
Elevating Education and Opportunities for Kenyan Girls
Carrie Arndt, Director, Quality Engineering, Advanced Sterilization Products
There was an unlikely source for Carrie Arndt's passion for volunteering: her son.
"He was a freshman at Duke University in a global health program when he learned about the challenges facing girls in Africa," Arndt explains. "He called me up asking if I could help out with corporate contributions, but I wanted to do more than that."
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That was 10 years ago. Since then Arndt has been deeply involved with the Women's Institute for Secondary Education and Research (WISER), which runs a boarding school in Kenya that not only educates girls but teaches them the life skills they need to be successful and independent adults, like how to interview for a job or stay on top of their personal finances.
What makes these trips even better is that I go with other Johnson & Johnson employees. To be able to come home and work with people who have gone with me is incredibly enriching.
"The community had no running water, no electricity and very primitive latrines," she recalls of her first trip to the country in 2008. "And yet the people there were so optimistic and positive in the midst of having so little. It was humbling."
Arndt and a boarding school student in Kenya
Arndt, who lives in California, has now taken six trips to Kenya—using the Extended Volunteer Leave Policy three of those times—including trips to help officially open the school in 2010, and to attend the first class's graduation in 2014.
"I helped select the 30 students for that first class," she says. "Many of them couldn't even talk about what they wanted for their future. They had never thought about aspirations because it was assumed they would just get married and have kids. That first class was full of pioneers—they forged the path and motivated the girls who came after them."
And the results have been amazing: Of the 120 girls who have graduated thus far, each one has passed the high school exit exam, and more than 90% of graduates go on to receive further education.
"What makes these trips even better is that I go with other Johnson & Johnson employees," Arndt says. "To be able to come home and work with people who have gone with me is incredibly enriching."
Rebuilding Homes for South Carolina Residents
Michael Blocker, Staff Process Engineer/Technical Operation, Janssen Pharmaceuticals
While many people take summer trips to the beach or a lake house, Michael Blocker heads for Dillon, South Carolina. His mission: lead a team of kid and adult volunteers as they fix up houses for people in need. Throughout the week, the volunteers work on eight houses that have fallen into disrepair because their owners lack either the financial means or physical ability to maintain them.
After his first stint volunteering with Salkehatchie Summer Mission in 2011, Blocker was hooked, returning every year as a site leader, and taking advantage of the leave policy four times. In his role as a site leader, the Georgia resident helps pick the houses that get fixed up, teach the volunteers about job site safety, and keep the project on time and on budget.
A few years ago, we fixed up the houses of two ladies in their 90s and it was so great to hear their life stories. I always get more out of it than what I put into it.
Blocker (far right) with fellow volunteers in South Carolina
"We aren't just doing a little landscaping or putting on a fresh coat of paint," Blocker says. "We are ripping out rotted floors, replacing roofs and fixing plumbing—this is hard work! There's always a moment in the middle of the week when we wonder if we bit off more than we can chew, but everyone puts their noses to the grindstone to finish."
While laboring under the hot South Carolina sun can be taxing, Blocker loves every minute of it.
"You make connections with the other volunteers and the families who live in the homes. A few years ago, we fixed up the houses of two ladies in their 90s and it was so great to hear their life stories," he says. "It's all about leaving behind something that's better than when we showed up. That's why I always get more out of it than what I put into it."
Healing a Haitian Community
Lucille Ferrante, M.D., Medical Director, Hematology, Janssen Scientific Affairs
Even before she joined Johnson & Johnson, Lucille Ferrante had always wanted to go on a medical mission. "I started out my career as a practicing physician and felt a higher calling to help those who didn't have access to care," she says. "But it's so hard to take time off when you're practicing, and if I did, it was always to spend time with my family."
So when she got to Johnson & Johnson, and the opportunity arose to help people in Haiti still struggling after the 2010 earthquake, Dr. Ferrante knew she had to go.
I heard about a group called Poverty Resolutions that worked to help people in Arcahaie, a very poor community outside of Port-au-Prince. I felt like a door was opening for me and I had to walk through it.
"I heard about a group called Poverty Resolutions that worked to help people in Arcahaie, a very poor community outside of Port-au-Prince," she says. "I felt like a door was opening for me and I had to walk through it."
Dr. Ferrante tends to a young Haitian child's wound
Last September, she took advantage of the Extended Volunteer Leave Policy and left her home in Pennsylvania for Arcahaie. "Poverty Resolutions was starting a clinic and needed help getting it up and running," Dr. Ferrante says. "With my background as a physician, I became their medical advisor."
While there, she networked with existing clinics, and after meeting with a pediatric residency program in Port-au-Prince, she helped paved the way for Arcahaie to develop its own pediatric clinic.
"I was even able to do health assessments for kids who are in Poverty Resolution's child development program," she says. "As a doctor, it felt so good to see patients again."
Dr. Ferrante is planning to return to Haiti in the fall, using the leave policy. "This has really pushed me outside of my comfort zone," she says. "It's scary in the moment, but then you see the significant growth and it's quite liberating."
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Stoke is fired up for renewal
Jackie Sadek 28/02/2017 | Investment/finance | EnglandPrintDownload
I had a truly excellent meeting with the Northern Gateway partners and Sir Ed Lister of the Homes and Communities Agency and his team from HCA and Communities and Local Government first thing yesterday.
We are developing a very exciting project together, which Stoke will lead for the whole Northern Gateway Development Zone. It is radical. It is bold. It is disruptive. But my lips are sealed. You'll need to wait till MIPIM to hear any more about it.
Sir Ed was on great form. He will be much in evidence at MIPIM and you can judge for yourself, but from where I'm sitting he is clearly well into his stride at the HCA. Under his stewardship the agency is shifting significantly in response to the Housing White Paper, with the new HCA chief executive joining this week, some new board members (clearly selected in the main to try to crack the tough London situation) and certainly a more streamlined relationship between the HCA and CLG. All to the good I reckon. There is much work to do.
The lovely Stoke people in the Northern Gateway Partnership are clearly a bit weary after the travails of last week, but they still got themselves into Westminster for 9am on a Monday morning, bright eyed and raring to go. You can't fault the commitment. And it gave the lie to the demoralised image of Stoke painted by the press last week, with their lazy one-dimensional treatment of this proud city, hell bent on labelling Stoke as "the Brexit Capital of Britain" (clearly entirely down to the fact that the UKIP chap had a chance of winning, which he did NOT).
The Stoke I know is progressive and changing, it is go-ahead and creative. You just could not recognise it in the election coverage fixated on the "left behind" working class, the aftershocks of the referendum, and the contrast between the city's glorious industrial past and its supposedly grim present.
Hardly any of the press accounts proffered any recognition of Stoke's collective push for regeneration and renewal. So it was hardly surprising that local people greeted the press reports with a mixture of anger and anxiety. As our friends at the Stoke Sentinel commented "It's hard not to conclude that most commentators do little more than make a quick leap off and on the train while searching out a small corner of bleakness that confirms views purloined from other idly compiled articles of a similar ilk,".
Clearly, Stoke-on-Trent (with its six constituent towns of Hanley, Burslem, Fenton, Longton, Stoke and Tunstall) has some serious social and economic difficulties. These are difficulties that we all collectively, central government, local government, local business, the community – and not least the Northern Gateway Partnership of course (on the back of the HS2 investment) – are determined to address.
The forces of good are seriously being mobilised. Stoke is a classic urban regeneration project, with a rich industrial heritage and the symptoms of subsequent urban decline, notably too many empty buildings and low-paid jobs. But a new-found ambition is being nurtured. The fretful portrayals of hopelessness and despair that we have seen in the media have precious little to do with Stoke's reality. The city is moving on. There is everything to play for. As you will see at MIPIM in a couple of weeks. Stoke is radical. Stoke is bold. Stoke is prepared to be disruptive.
• To send feedback, e-mail jackie.sadek@ukregeneration.org.uk or tweet @jackiesadek or @estatesgazette


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Warriors snap 9-game Houston win streak, avoid sweep
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Playing without injured Kevin Durant, the Golden State Warriors snapped Houston's nine-game win streak and avoided being swept this season by the Rockets with a 106-104 road victory Wednesday.
Klay Thompson scored a game-high 30 points while DeMarcus Cousins netted a season-high 27 points plus team-highs of eight rebounds and seven assists and Stephen Curry contributed 24 points in a crucial victory for the defending champions.
"When Kevin is out, we don't have the luxury of throwing to him and getting 30 points," Thompson said. "We had to throw it to 'Boogie' (Collins) in the post and he came through for us in a big way. He propelled us to a victory tonight."
Durant, a two-time NBA Finals Most Valuable Player, was sidelined by a right ankle sprain suffered in a Sunday loss to Phoenix.
But the Warriors, a Western Conference-best 46-21, bounced back behind 3-point sharpshooter Thompson, who hit 12-of-23 from the floor including 5-of-10 from beyond the arc.
"Whether Kevin is out here or not, I play the same way," Thompson said. "I try to keep moving and being a force."
Cousins, signed as an injured free agent in July, has had to blend with the Warriors powerhouse line-up since returning in January from a ruptured Achilles tendon.
But Cousins established himself as a physical inside force who could give Houston fits in a play-off series.
"We made a concerted effort to feed him in the post," Curry said. "Nothing he does out there should surprise anybody."
Houston, which led Golden State 3-2 in last year's Western Conference finals before falling in seven games, had won the first three meetings of the season with Golden State but could not become the first team to sweep the Warriors since Steve Kerr became coach of the club and their run of four consecutive NBA Finals runs began.
"It's a good win for us," Kerr said. "We've got 15 games left for us to figure out the combinations. This was a good night."
NBA scoring leader James Harden netted 29 points and added 10 assists to lead the Rockets (42-26), who also got 24 points from Chris Paul and 13 points and 13 rebounds from Clint Capela.
Paul sank two free throws with 47 seconds remaining to pull Houston within 104-100, then completed a 3-point play after being fouled by Andre Iguodala to pull the Rockets within 104-103 with 10 seconds remaining.
Curry sank two free throws with eight seconds to play to boost the lead and the Warriors fouled Harden to send him to the free throw line.
Harden sank the first to create the final margin, but missed the second only to have Iguodala chase down the rebound and tap the ball to unguarded Thompson, who tossed it in the air as the final horn sounded.
Russell Westbrook unleashed his 26th triple double of the season and led a second-half surge that lifted the Oklahoma City Thunder over visiting Brooklyn 108-96.
Westbrook finished with 31 points, 12 rebounds, 11 assists and three steals while the Thunder's Paul George and Brooklyn's Spencer Dinwiddie each added 25 points.
The Nets led 52-42 at half-time but could not silence the Thunder in the second half.
"My job is to bring the energy every night. It was my fault in the first half," Westbrook said. "I knew I needed to pick it up in the second half."
Justise Winslow scored 16 points to lead seven double-figure scorers for Miami in a 108-74 rout of visiting Detroit.
The Pistons, led by 13 points from Blake Griffin, were outscored 33-8 in the third quarter, the Heat opening the second half with a 21-0 run.
Miami improved to 32-35, tightening the Heat's grip on the eighth and last Eastern Conference play-off berth to two games over Orlando and Charlotte with Washington 3.5 adrift.
Bradley Beal scored 23 points and Thomas Bryant came off the bench to add 21 points and 10 rebounds as the Washington Wizards beat visiting Orlando 100-90.
Atlanta's John Collins scored 27 points to lead the Hawks over visiting Memphis 132-111 while Donovan Mitchell scored 26 points to lead Utah's 114-97 victory at Phoenix.


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Crude nearing key inflection point: Technician
Published Wed, Jun 17 20158:43 AM EDT
Amanda Diaz@CNBCDiaz
Key level for crude: Technician
After a torrid run from its bottom, crude oil has settled into the tightest range we've seen in a year. But according to one highly regarded technician, the commodity is heading into a key inflection point.
"If you look back to 1984, you see that [the summer months] are some of the best times of the year to be invested in oil," technical analyst Ari Wald said Tuesday on CNBC's "Futures Now."
Wald noted that traditionally, the time between July and September tend to be the three best-performing consecutive months for oil in the past 30 years. By his chart work, oil has rallied an average of 1.5 percent in the month of July, 3 percent in August and 2 percent in September.
And while he does see the potential for oil to trade as high as $67 a barrel in the near term, he noted some troubling signs on the chart that tells him the primary trend for oil remains lower. "We have a falling 200-day moving average which indicates that the trend is still down," said Wald, head of technical analysis at Oppenheimer. "There's also a very important retracement level for oil going back to last year. And I think that's going to curb the upside."
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According to Wald, once the seasonality fades the oil decline could resume, sending the commodity back into the $40 range. "Investors should trade in the direction of the trend," he advised. "I think a test of the lows that we saw earlier this year is not without question."
But Wald stressed that trouble for crude does not necessarily mean the pain could hit the equity market. "Historically, these range-bound commodity markets have been very good for stocks," he said. "If you look back at the ranges for commodities back in the '50s, '60s, '80s and '90s, they coincide with the secular bull markets in the S&P 500."


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Tender Bulletin GPW-2021/22-19
Request for Tender for Appointment of a supplier for manufacturing and/or supply and delivery of fine graphic paperboard and 80gsm bond reels and various sheet papers, to the Government Printing Works, Republic of South Africa for a period of three (3) years.....…read more
Tender Bulletin GPW- 2021/22-18
Invitation to Tender for Appointment of a panel of suppliers to supply, deliver and install furniture to Government Printing Works for a period of three (3) years.....…read more
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Tender Bulletin GPW- 2021/22-17
Invitation to Tender for Appointment of a panel of printing service providers to provide printing service and deliver printed material to Government Printing Works for a period of five years....…read more
Invitation to Tender BID for the Drawing and Installation of Fire Emergency Evacuation floor plans for the Government Printing Works....…read more
Invitation to Tender Appointment of the Service Provider for Mapping and Development of ISO 18788 Security Operation Management System (SOMS) processes and provisioning of ISO 18788 SOMS training to the Security Management personnel at Government Printing Works....…read more
Tender Bulletin GPW-2021-22-14
Invitation to Tender for the Manufacturing and supply of high security paper substrates, to the Government Printing Works, Republic of South Africa, for a period of five (5) years....…read more
Invitation to Tender for the Appointment of a service provider for supply, delivery, commissioning, testing and maintenance of security X-Ray machine units and walk through metal detector units on lease basis for a period of thirty-six (36) months for the Government Printing Works...…read more
Invitation to Tender for the Appointment of a service provider to supply and deliver firearms, firearm safe and facilitation of accreditation of firearms with central firearm registry for use by in-house security officers at Government Printing Works..…read more
Invitation to Tender for the Appointment of a service provider for supply, delivery, installation and maintenance of security visitor management solution at Government Printing Works buildings for a period of three (3) years..…read more
Invitation to Tender for the Appointment of a service provider for provisioning of maintenance, repairs, upgrading and Installations of the Electronic Security System at Government Printing Works Facilities in Pretoria (Visagie, Bosman and Building 88, CSIR building 30 and Regional Offices (Mafikeng and East London) for a period of three (3) consecutive years..…read more
Tender Bulletin GPW-W 2021/02 Erratum
Kindly be informed there was a typing error in the TOR page 31 point 5 on the Term Sheet with regard to appointment. GPW apologises for inconvenienced caused on the below mentioned tender advertised on 27 August 2021.…read more
Tender Bulletin GPW-W 2021/02-09
Invitation to Tender BID for Appointment of a Service Provider to render Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for a period of three years…read more
Invitation to Tender BID for the Development of the Knowledge Management Strategy and Implementation Plan for the Government Printing Works, including Testing of the Implementation Plan...read more
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Invitation to Tender for Rendering of a Cleaning Services at the premises of the Government Printing Works, for a period of twelve (12) months.....read more
Tender Bulletin GPW -2021/22- 08
Tender Bulletin GPW-C 70
Invitation to Tender for Appointment of a Service Provider to render Hygiene Service at the premises of the Government Printing Works for a period of three years.....read more
Tender Bulletin GPW-W 2021/07
Invitation to Tender BID for the Drawing and Installation of Fire Emergency Evacuation floor plans for the Government Printing Works.....read more
Tender Bulletin GPW-P 2021/05
Invitation to Tender for Appointment of a Panel of Printing service providers to provide Printing Service and Deliver printed material to Government Printing Works for a period of five years.....read more
Invitation to Tender Appointment of Manufacturing and Supply of High Security Paper Substrates, to the Government Printing Works, Republic of South Africa.....read more
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Tender Bulletin GPW-W 2020/06
Invitation to Tender Appointment of a Service Provider to render Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for a period of three years...read more
Invitation to Tender Bid for the development of the knowledge management strategy and implementation plan for the government printing works, including testing of the implementation plan...read more
Tender Bulletin GPW-W 2021-03
Invitation to Tender for the appointment of a service provider to render Occupational Health Services including primary ealth care to Government Printing Works workers for a period of three (3) years...read more
Tender Bulletin GPW-C 31
Invitation to tender for rental of Forklifts/electric pallet walk behind/ride-on eletric pallet truck and manual pallet jacks to the Government Printing Works, Pretoria (Head Office – 149 Bosman Street, GPW Security Printing Factory- 83 Visagie Street, 88 Visagie Street and Zandfontein, East-London, Polokwane and Mmabatho Warehouses for a period of three years commencing 01 June 2021 and terminating 31 May 2024..read more
Invitation to tender for the Supply and Delivery of various types of Personal Protective Equipment and Corporate clothing to the Government Printing Works Pretoria for a period of three (3) years...read more
Appointment of a Travel Agency for provision of travel management services to Government Printing Works for a period of three (3) years...read more
Tender Bulletin GPW-P 2021/01
Manufacturing and Supply of High Security Paper Substrates, to the Government Printing Works, Republic of South Africa....read more
Invitation to tender for the Appointment of a Service Provider for the development of the Knowledge Management Strategy and Implementation Plan for the Government Printing Works (GPW), including Testing of the Implementation Plan...read more
Tender Bulletin GPW-C61
Invitation to tender for the Appointment of a Service Provider for the Covering of Printing Rollers as and when required by Government Printing Works (GPW)...read more
Invitation to tender for the Appointment of a Service Provider to provide Pest Control Services to the Government Printing Works (GPW)...read more
Invitation to tender for rental of Forklifts/Electric Pallet Walk Behind/Ride-On Electric Pallet truck and Manual Pallet Jacks to the Government Printing Works (GPW)...read more
Invitation to tender for the supply and delivery of various types of Personal Protective Equipment and Corporate Clothing to the Government Printing Works (GPW), Pretoria for a period of Three (3) years commencing 1 December 2020 and terminating 30 November 2023....read more
Invitation to tender for the appointment of a Canteen and Catering Service Provider for the Government Printing Works (GPW), Republic of South Africa for a period of Three (3) years commencing 1 November 2020 and terminating 31 October 2023....read more
Invitation to tender for the appointment of rendering of Security Guarding services for Government Printing Works at Pretoria sites: Masada Building, Eendracht Laerskool parking, Zandfontein Warehouse, Absa Buildining; Building 88 Visagie and Regional Offices: Polokwane, East London & Mafikeng, for a period of thirty-six (36) months commencing 01 december 2020 and terminating 30 november 2023....read more
This tender is for the provision of multi-disciplinary construction services under reference GPWPAV3/2013.
The below vendors were shortlisted by the Government Printing Works.
Tender Bulletin GPW-M 336
Manufacturing, supplying and commissioning of a document gathering machine and a perfect binding machine to the Government Printing Works, Republic of South...read more


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