User:HouseOfChange/SandboxArchive 1

Here are some items, formerly in my Sandbox, that I am not currently working on but still have interest in.HouseOfChange (talk) 20:19, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

• See page history for when I moved things here from my working Sandbox. HouseOfChange (talk) 23:49, 21 January 2019 (UTC)

Drafting new article about Richard Smith (public historian)

Richard Smith is a public historian and writer known for his writings on New England history and for his living history interpretations of Henry David Thoreau.

Personal life

Smith was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. According to the LA Review of Books, "Richard grew up 'obsessed' with 19th-century American history, and his supportive parents took him to battlefields and historic houses on family vacations." He graduated from the University of Akron with a B.A. in history in 1985 After college, he continued to study "the spiritual teachings of Native Americans" and Transcendentalists. In his spare time, he took part in re-enactments of the American Civil War and Revolutionary War, and performed with several punk rock bands.

Professional life

Smith began his career as a public historian while working "as" an Ohio schoolmaster of 1848 for an Akron living history museum. After reading about the life and works of Henry David Thoreau, Smith decided to visit Concord, Massachusetts, where he then moved a year later, in 1999.

In addition to writing and giving talks about his historical research, Smith also performs as a living history interpreter. In period costume as Henry David Thoreau, he gives public readings from Thoreau's works and responds in character as Thoreau to audience questions.

Explaining his interest in living history work, Smith told an interviewer that "I want people to be aware of the fact that Thoreau was a living, breathing, funny, spiritual guy."

At Thoreau-related sites such as Walden Pond or Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, Smith sometimes does tour-guiding, often in character and costume. His talks and readings, either in costume as Thoreau or as himself, have taken place around New England and beyond, including work for CSPAN and Public Radio's Living on Earth. He also expanded and presented his research on Native American history while he was scholar in residence at the Longfellow's Wayside Inn Museum.

He is the author of eight books, including Quotations of Henry David Thoreau (2017) and A Short Biography of John Muir (2018). He contributed a Foreword to The Other ‘Hermit’ of Thoreau’s Walden Pond: The Sojourn of Edmond Stuart Hotham.

External links

• "Thoreau in Winter" by Richard Smith
• Richard Smith presenting "Thoreau on Slavery" (2001 CSPAN video)
• "Invested in treason" by Richard Smith, 2021
• "A duty so severe" by Richard Smith, 2021

References

Collecting info on recent news about faked protest photos

• Le Monde English article
• Le Monde French article
• DW.com "The aim of the staged demonstrations is, among other things, to create anti-Ukraine sentiment or to make Sweden's NATO accession more difficult, the news outlets reported.""Examples include a demonstration by alleged members of a Ukrainian community in Paris at the beginning of March, who demonstrated against Erdogan by using a Hitler salute and balaclava and also mocked the victims of the devastating earthquakes that struck Turkey and Syria in February."
• SZ

References

Just some notes to myself, including my new userpage to move my DYK notices

• Creating User:HouseOfChange/Alexandra Palt about activist at L'Oreal
• Giovanni Rossi (anarchist) based on it-wiki but much shortened due to their lack of RS inline citations
• Hao Jingfang woman sci fi author:
  • https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/making-a-mess-of-the-world-on-hao-jingfangs-vagabonds/]
  • https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/hao-jingfang/vagabonds/
  • https://www.tor.com/2020/04/23/the-art-of-interplanetary-diplomacy-a-review-of-hao-jingfangs-vagabonds/
  • https://locusmag.com/2020/06/gary-k-wolfe-reviews-vagabonds-by-hao-jingfang/
  • https://locusmag.com/2020/04/paul-di-filippo-reviews-vagabonds-by-hao-jingfang/
• Takaya Imamura is now a redirect, but he sounds interesting and notable based on this article about his retirement.
• Sara Mazur Swedish woman of note, Wiki article doesn't do justice.
  • 2016 head of Ericsson research (2016)
  • 2019 WASP https://www.umu.se/en/news/expansion-of-swedens-largest-research-project_8686890/
  • 2020 https://www.chalmers.se/en/areas-of-advance/ict/news/Pages/WASP-Feb-2020.aspx
  • https://swedishaicouncil.com/ "Sara Mazur DELEGATE Vice Chairman WASP • Director of Chalmers, Combient, Nobel Media, RISE, Saab, SICS North Swedish ICT, WACQT"

References

Keeping a record of mystery accounts that change election results

• 2600:6C51:773F:2BB7:510F:5436:6D9E:1CDF (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) (November 24, only)
• 2601:640:8580:DC00:3DA4:8ACE:E93:E26D (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) (December 26 only)
• 2a00:23c7:4217:4601:a806:615:dab2:5de7 (talk · contribs · (/64) · deleted contribs · filter log · WHOIS · RBLs · http · block user · block log) (February 28 only)

Drafting new article, this one about GEC

Four Russian Intelligence Service Disinformation Outlets, per US Dept of Treasury 2021

The Global Engagement Center (GEC) is a division of the United States Department of State established in 2016 to oppose foreign propaganda efforts aimed at influencing US politics or undermining US security.

According to its official website, its core mission is:

To direct, lead, synchronize, integrate, and coordinate efforts of the Federal Government to recognize, understand, expose, and counter foreign state and non-state propaganda and disinformation efforts aimed at undermining or influencing the policies, security, or stability of the United States, its allies, and partner nations.

Origins

Main article: Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act

The Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act is a bipartisan bill that passed both House and Senate in December, 2016, and was signed into law by President Obama on December 23, 2016 as part of the 2017 National Defense Authorization Act.

According to reporting by The New York Times in March, 2018, the State Department had not yet begun to spend the $120 million allocated to it, and not one of the 23 analysts working in the GEC could speak Russian.

US State Department report (2020): "Russia’s Disinformation and Propaganda Ecosystem"

In 2020, the US State Department described Russia's information outreach efforts as a "disinformation and propaganda ecosystem," where Russian state actors teamed with others whose connection to Russia was less clear, in order to get wide attention for their ideas.

• Strategic Culture Foundation:
• Global Research:
• New Eastern Outlook: 2020 report calls it "a pseudo-academic publication of the Russian Academy of Science’s Institute of Oriental Studies that promotes disinformation and propaganda focused primarily on the Middle East, Asia, and Africa."
• Newsfront is a website based in Russian-occupied Crimea. It describes itself as "a news agency that runs news in ten languages including Russian, German, English, Bulgarian, Georgian, French, and Spanish." It was established in March, 2014 when masked gunmen took over the headquarters of the Crimean Center for Investigative Journalism. According to NBC News:

In 2021, a State Department official speaking on the basis of classified information told The Wall Street Journal that NewsFront "is guided by the FSB," Russia's successor agency to the Soviet Union's KGB.

According to The Guardian, NewsFront's leader Konstantin Knyrik is also head of the pro-Putin political party Rodina.

• SouthFront

Facebook removed profiles related to News Front and South Front [another Crimean media outlet] in 2020...Both websites have pushed misleading articles, questioning the results of the 2020 presidential election and the efficacy of Covid-19 vaccines. The State Department identified the websites as Russian disinformation outlets in a 2020 report.

In 2021 and again in 2022, the US Treasury announced sanctions against SouthFront, calling it in 2021 "an online disinformation site registered in Russia that ... attempts to appeal to military enthusiasts, veterans, and conspiracy theorists, all while going to great lengths to hide its connections to Russian intelligence."

• Geopolitica.ru: Leonid Savin is editor-in-chief here and also chief editor for Katehon.[4]

NYT on GEC 2020 report

2021 reports on vaccine disinformation

In 2021, the GEC reported that sources linked to the Russian government had campaigned to question the development and safety of COVID-19 vaccines, promoting vaccine hesitancy. The State Department said that four websites in particular had "direct links to Russian intelligence and were used by the Russian government to mislead international opinion on a range of issues," saying that Russia’s foreign intelligence service directly controls both Oriental Review and New Eastern Outlook.

Oriental Review is a Russia-based website at least some of whose content is said to be created by Russia's main intelligence directorate GRU.

The State Department had mentioned New Eastern Outlook in its 2020 report, describing it there as "a pseudo-academic publication of the Russian Academy of Science’s Institute of Oriental Studies that promotes disinformation and propaganda focused primarily on the Middle East, Asia, and Africa."

A third Russian-disinformation site, also mentioned in the 2020 GEC report, was News Front, based in Russia-occupied Crimea. According to the 2021 report, it is "guided by" Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), the Russian successor to the Soviet Union's KGB. The fourth site mentioned, Rebel Inside, had been run by the GRU but had stopped publishing at the time of the report.

The aim of Russian disinformation changed over time. At first, the goal seemed to be promoting Russia's Sputnik vaccine by criticizing Pfizer, but later focus shifted to pushing "culture war debates over vaccine and mask mandates."

Harmony Square

In 2021, the GEC published "Harmony Square," an online game based on "inoculation theory" where the player learns to use disinformation against a community. According to two of the games, creators, "Instead of focusing on specific examples, also known as issue-based inoculation (which has been the standard in inoculation research), Harmony Square builds cognitive resistance against the techniques that underpin a whole range of political misinformation in an attempt to achieve broad-spectrum resistance against manipulation."

Reviewing the game, the LA Review of Books described it as "well-intentioned" but with "many limits."

2022 report

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• Sputnik (news agency)‎
• RT (TV network)‎

Role of FSB in Ukraine invasion

Both Obama (2016) and Trump (2018) sanctioned FSB for interference in US politics. https://www.cnbc.com/2018/03/15/treasury-sanctions-putins-chef-other-russians-over-cyber-related-threats.html Wikilinks Annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation and 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine

• Russian intelligence services GRU = military intelligence. "Security analysts credit Sergun with building up the GRU after it suffered drastic cuts, and the agency proved more effective on the ground in Ukraine [in 2014] than the FSB."

• In 2014, GRU were the champions

• 2014 GRU in Crimea 2014"The near-bloodless seizure of Crimea in March was based on plans drawn up by the General Staff’s Main Operations Directorate that relied heavily on GRU intelligence. The GRU had comprehensively surveyed the region, was watching Ukrainian forces based there, and was listening to their communications. The GRU didn’t only provide cover for the "little green men" who moved so quickly to seize strategic points on the peninsula before revealing themselves to be Russian troops. Many of those operatives were current or former GRU Spetsnaz."

• January 17, 2022 https://agentura.ru/investigations/neizvestnaja-razvedka/ by Andrey Soldatov. The Russian intelligence services have established special relationships with the former Soviet republics (except the Baltic states), and have helped them build their own intelligence services. In April 1992, the SVR signed an agreement with the intelligence services of Ukraine, Georgia, Belarus and the states of Central Asia, agreeing not to conduct espionage against each other. The FSB, however, never signed such an agreement and felt free from any obligations....The FSB, according to the US Treasury Department, "participated in funding and supporting separatist activities in Crimea and eastern Ukraine."
• February 21 "Dumb and lazy"
• February 25 According to the Royal United Services Institute, FSB's Department for Operational Information "is responsible for compiling data on Russia’s 'near abroad', having taken over the work of KGB’s Fifth Service, which ran counterintelligence inside territories of the Soviet Union.[43]

"The KGB’s Fifth Service had been responsible for counterintelligence in the territories of the former Soviet Union. When the KGB became the FSB in the 1990s, and these territories became independent states, the Fifth Service transitioned into an intelligence agency targeting Russia’s neighbours. Its Department for Operational Information is responsible for compiling data on Russia’s ‘near abroad’, and the Ninth Directorate, targeting Ukraine, has been overseeing the gathering of intelligence on Ukrainian society to inform Russian decision-making. Its February 2022 surveys reveal much about how the Kremlin assessed the resilience of Ukrainian society." Royal United Services Institute founded by the Duke of Wellington!

• March 3 FSB betrayed assassination attempts

• March 7 After February 25 invasion by Russia met stiff resistance, a whistleblower document allegedly leaked by an FSB operative said that FSB was being unfairly blamed for the failure of the invasion. "The report said the FSB was being blamed for the failure of the invasion but had been given no warning of it and was unprepared to deal with the effects of crippling sanctions." Tom Ball, whistleblower leak
• March 7 Embarrassing leak of Gerasimov call
• March 9 more Gerasimov and ERA
• March 9 xx.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/putin-infuriated-by-russian-intelligence-failures-in-ukraine-war-mmbmvhf2b
• March 10 Also in early March, Ukraine intelligence reported that FSB members were leaking intelligence to them, including the location of the Chechen commandos sent to assassinate Zelensky.https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/spies-accused-of-betraying-putins-chechen-units-537fj6lnr
• March 11 by Irina Borogan and Andrey Soldatov published by Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).
• March 11 "The FSB unit that conducts foreign political analysis -- the Ninth Directorate of the Fifth Service – commissioned public opinion polls in Ukraine earlier in February, weeks before the war. According to the Royal United Services Institute, a London think tank that said it reviewed the surveys, the polls showed widespread distrust among Ukrainians for government institutions, among other things. "It is notable that Putin, in his preinvasion televised address, spoke extensively about the failures of Ukrainian governance in terms that mirrored the picture painted by the FSB’s surveys," the RUSI report said. "While the FSB survey may have been accurate in measuring opinions at the time it was conducted, it told the Russians little about how sentiments would evolve in the aftermath of an invasion." ... On March 11, however, a report by another well-sourced Russian journalist said that the head of the FSB’s Fifth Service and his deputy had been arrested and suspected of embezzling funds earmarked for Ukraine operations.

The report by Andrei Soldatov said they were also accused of knowingly feeding bad information about the political situation in Ukraine.

• March 11 State Dept says I dunno His reply includes "I do not think that any political leader, military planner, strategist worth any salt would devise a plan that would be met with stiff opposition, that would be met with fierce and unified international opposition, and that would be met with almost universal global condemnation, and a plan that is now leading Russia into what is a strategic morass of its own making in terms of an economy in freefall, a financial system that has now given up the gains of integration over the past 30 years, and a strategic positioning in the world that is a far cry from what it might have been before this and, given our export controls, given the diplomatic isolation, given the financial and other economic measures, will be appreciably weaker for some time to come."
• March 12, 2022 "The FSB, a successor to the KGB, told Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, that it had thoroughly penetrated Ukraine’s political and military leadership, and laid the groundwork for a pro-Russian regime—a key reason for the Kremlin’s war optimism. But the fsb grossly exaggerated its networks of agents in Ukrainian cities."

• March 12 2022 The Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/kremlin-arrests-fsb-chiefs-in-fallout-from-ukraine-invasion-chaos-92w0829c5

• March 19 WSJ; "Current and former U.S. officials say Russian intelligence agencies often shy away from telling their bosses bad news and may have reinforced Mr. Putin’s views, which he has expressed publicly, that Ukraine was a dysfunctional country whose leadership would rapidly collapse as some of its citizens welcomed Russian troops."

Summarizing FSB failures: funding to NewsFront and SouthFront, claims Ukraine wouldn't fight, claims sanctions wouldn't hurt Russia, Whistleblower leak, failure of ERA system and death of Gerasimov, claims they leaked info on Chechen assassination squad. And now claims of arrests.

Extras and related

Poynter on UkraineFacts Russia's efforts in Africa: Detailed JSIS paper on Russian information warfare Tsargrad TV news

References

References

Miscellaneous small discards

• User:HouseOfChange/DYK
• Stuff about Tenenbaum's student, now an article User:HouseOfChange/Tom Griffiths (cognitive scientist)
• User:HouseOfChange/Rey Jaime I Awards draft based on article in es-wiki, now an article

Columbia Global Reports

HouseOfChange/SandboxArchive 1

Parent company	Columbia University
Founded	2015
Country of origin	United States
Headquarters location	New York City
Distribution	Publishers Group West
Publication types	Books
Nonfiction topics	globalization, US foreign policy
No. of employees	3
Official website	globalreports.columbia.edu

Columbia Global Reports (CGR) is a publishing imprint founded in 2015 by Columbia University and led by Nicholas Lemann, the emeritus dean Columbia's journalism school.

Its mission is to produce "four to six ambitious works of journalism and analysis a year" on global issues, with each novella-length book available as paperback or e-book. Columbia Journalism Review describes CGR's business model as "somewhere between a magazine and book publisher," saying:

"Unlike most traditional book publishers (but like high-end magazines), Columbia Global Reports fact checks, pays writers’ expenses, and has a total production time, from signed contract to store shelves, that’s measured in months, not years."

According to Publishers Weekly, CGR gets most of its income from consumer sales (its books are distributed by Publishers Group West) but would not break even without support from Columbia and from foundations.

References

Imran Mahmood novelist and barrister

User:HouseOfChange/Imran Mahmood Creating draft of possible article in draftspace

Shepard elephant

The Shepard elephant, also known as L'egs-istential Quandary or the impossible elephant is an impossible object type of optical illusion based on figure-ground confusion. As Shepard explains:

The elephant…belongs to a class of objects that are truly impossible in that the object itself cannot be globally segregated from the nonobject or background. Parts of the object (in this case the elephant’s legs) become the background, and vice versa.

Roger Shepard first published this optical paradox in his 1990 book Mind Sights (page 79,) giving it the name "L’egs-istential Quandary." It is the first entry in his chapter on "Figure-ground impossibilities." The pen-and-ink drawing is based on a dream Shepard had in 1974, and on the pencil sketch he made when he woke up.

The image is widely reproduced and discussed. Brad Honeycutt, author of Exceptional Eye Tricks, calls the Shepard elephant "one of the most famous and classic optical illusions."

The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences p 386 classifies it under "Illusions of Interpretation" as an example of "Impossible Pictures," saying, "Impossible figures embody conflicting 3D clues...Shepard's elephant (figure 2) confuses its legs with the spaces in between. Local votes about depth are not properly integrated."

The Oxford Companion to Consciousness suggests as a way to understand "Shepard’s many-legged elephant": “try slowly uncovering the elephant from the top, or from the bottom.” (If you cover the bottom of the drawing, you see the top of an elephant with four legs. If you cover the drawing's top, you see four elephant feet, plus trunk and tail.)

Al Seckel, who devotes Chapter 18 of his book Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion to Roger Shepard, draws a connection between Shepard's elephant and the impossible trident (aka the "blivet" or "Devil's tuning fork.") Although an impossible trident has a closed edge, Seckel says the "conspicuous line discontinuity" of the elephant's tail is necessary to avoid a "counting paradox": a blivet is an imaginary object, but everyone knows an elephant has exactly four legs and exactly four feet.

The Shepard elephant has attracted interest outside scholarly sources. Author Clive Gifford included it in his 2013 book for children Eye Benders, and told The Guardian it is one of his favorites.

Sometime before 2012, someone created a modified version of the Shepard elephant. The modified elephant has an extra hind leg, with foot attached, made by extending the curved line that Shepard left ambiguous (to look like either the top of a leg or the end of a tail.) This modified image, which now has four legs but five feet, was circulated as "How many legs does this elephant have?"

The Shepard elephant has also inspired other derivative works on the Internet. Dutch psychologist Hugo Schouppe made a video, showing how GIMP can be used to move the elephant's feet. The OpticalSpy website also cited the Shepard elephant as inspiration for manipulating a photograph of an Indian elephant to give it six legs.

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• In Mind Sights the elephant appears on p 79 with the legend "E1 L’egs-istential Quandary." It is the first item in Section E, "Figure-ground impossibilities," of which Shepard says on page 78 "On closer examination, however, the object defies perceptual segregation, as a whole, from the nonobject or background and thus illustrates the strongest case of an "impossible object."
• Clip and ref from current Shepard article: "figure-ground confusing elephant he calls "L'egs-istential quandary" (p. 79) .. also widely known. Note second Guardian article including image is about book that won prize[5]
• Maybe not RS but interesting short quote from page 143 of Mind Sights I should expand: "The elephant…belongs to a class of objects that are truly impossible in that the object itself cannot be globally segregated from the nonobject or background. Parts of the object (in this case the elephant’s legs) become the background, and vice versa."
• The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences p 386 classifies it under "Illusions of Interpretation" as an example of "Impossible Pictures," saying, "Impossible figures embody conflicting 3D clues...Shepard's elephant (figure 2) confuses its legs with the spaces in between. Local votes about depth are not properly integrated. Impossible objects cannot be consistently painted with colors."
• The Oxford Companion to Consciousness p 366 categorizes “Shepard’s many-legged elephant” as an “impossible figure” suggesting, “try slowly uncovering the elephant from the top, or from the bottom.” The Oxford Companion to Consciousness, edited by Tim Bayne, Axel Cleeremans, Patrick Wilken. Oxford University Press, 2014 - Psychology - 672 pages.
• I bought an ebook online, which cites story about origin of elephant as follows in a note to page 137: "Shepard dream, from Shepard and Hut, “My Experience, Your Experience”; other material from Shepard interview." Story is that image came from dream in 1974. He made quick pencil sketch that became ink drawing later. The book is Dream: The Mind at Night: The New Science of How and Why We Dream by Andrea Rock.
• Book Masters of Deception: Escher, Dalí & the Artists of Optical Illusion by Al Seckel [6] has an entire Chapter (18) about Shepard, pp 285-294.

• Other names: Excerpt from book about illusions "The first optical illusion that I have a memory of is L’egs-istential Quandary, created by American psychologist Roger N. Shepard. This drawing is commonly known as the “Impossible elephant” or the “Anomalous elephant” for good reason." Exceptional Eye Tricks" by Brad Honeycutt. 9781936140732. (p.s. No Google results for this using Anomalous elephant)
• modified version, undated but earliest user comment is dated 2013
• Insider illusions
• Video by Hugo Schouppe shows both versions of elephant
• Photoshopped six-legged elephant, inspired by the optical illusion
• archive 2013[7]

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• Review of Mind Sights by Gomberich, which mostly talks about Gomberich's own ideas[8]

References

Cristiane de Morais Smith

Potential references

Emmy Noether Prize 2019 [9]

Published by Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research subsidiary FOM (Foundation for Fundamental Research on Matter) Interview

xxxx Hamburg bio Dresselhaus Prize

xxxx Hamburg Dresselhaus Prize event

xxxx Hamburg Dresselhaus Prize pdf

2018 "Possibly 'enormous revelation of physics': flat materials in magnet change when bent or dented" (nl) Volkskrant refers to paper in PRL[10]

xxxx PhysOrg 2015

xxxx Brazil on science

xxxx PhysOrg 2018

xxxx PhysOrg 2017

xxxx NRC 2018

xxxx APS paper

2018 Physicists wrangled electrons into a quantum fractal 2018 Science News

Drafting text

Cristiane Morais Smith (born February 12, 1964) is a Brazilian theoretical physicist in the field of condensed matter. She is a professor of condensed matter theory at Utrecht University. In 2016, she received the Mildred Dresselhaus Award "for her outstanding contribution to the understanding of topological phases in two-dimensional atomic and electronic systems."

Recognition

In 2007 the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research awarded Morais Smith a Vici grant, a competitive award for senior scientific researchers.

More sources

Google translation of article in nl-wiki

Cristiane Morais Smith is a Brazilian professor at Utrecht University. Morias Smith graduated in Brazil with the physicist Amir Caldeira. After her PhD she worked as a researcher at the ETH in Zurich. In 2001 she received a scholarship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. In 2004 she was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at Utrecht University. In 2007 she received a VICI subsidy from the NWO. In 2016 she received the Mildred Dresselhaus Award. Prof. dr. Dr. C. Morais Smith contributed to dozens of articles in her field.

Sources, notes and / or references

CV at: uu.nl .

A Jewel of Equal Opportunities on cui.uni-hamburg.de .

PiCarta (for her publications).

From bio summary uu.nl[11]

C. Morais Smith is a worldwide recognised researcher working on the theory of strongly-correlated systems. She was recently awarded the Dresselhaus Prize “for her outstanding contribution to the understanding of topological phases in two-dimensional atomic and electronic systems”. Her research interests range from condensed-matter [1-8] to cold-atom systems [9-13]. Her group pioneered the development of a thermodynamic description of topological insulators and superconductors [5], as well as the use of a projected quantum electrodynamics (CQED and Pseudo QED) formulation to investigate topological phases driven by interactions [4,7]. The research done in her group involves mostly analytical techniques, such as quantum field theory, renormalization group, Schwinger-Dyson, Chern-Simons theory, etc.

From online cv[12]

Official Name: Prof. Cristiane de Morais Smith Lehner

Professional Name: Prof. C. Morais Smith

Birth date: February 12, 1964

Nationality: Brazilian

Female, married with Stefan Lehner (Swiss) on September 2002

References

Maybe WP:TOOSOON, but...Elizabeth Hargrave?

Update, November 2019, now there is an article about the game Wingspan. Take a look at the links below and see if all are already in the Wingspan article. Or another possibility, see if the examples below and others from the Wingspan article add up to significant coverage by independent sources. Because she is also known for Tussie Mussie, an award winner, this is not WP:1E. HouseOfChange (talk) 10:02, 27 November 2019 (UTC)

Draft

Elizabeth Hargrave is an American game designer who whose game Wingspan won the the 2019 Kennerspiel des Jahres for best connoisseur game of the year. Her game Tussie-Mussie won the 2018 Button Shy - GenCan't Design contest.

Hargrave, who earned a master’s degree in public affairs, worked for many years as a public policy analyst at at the University of Chicago's National Opinion Research Center. Described by the New York Times as "a spreadsheet geek," she lives in Silver Springs, Maryland with her husband landscape designer Matt Cohen.

Hargrave meets regularly with others from the Washington, DC area to play board games. She got the idea to start designing games based on themes from nature in 2014 at one such event, according to Audubon:

Hargrave and her husband loved nature, and had recently started birding. All their friends were similarly outdoorsy. “Why,” she posed to the group, “are there no games about things we are into?”

Hargrave designed Wingspan using online data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and from the National Audubon Society. She describes the game as "a card-based engine-building game about bringing birds into a nature preserve." Hargrave pitched the game to three different publishers at Gen Con in 2016; it was bought by Stonemaier Games. Published in 2019, the game sold 44,000 copies worldwide over three printings in its first two months of release, with the publisher issuing a public apology for not having more copies available. Wingspan won the 2019 Kennerspiel des Jahres for best connoisseur game of the year.

Hargrave created the game Tussie Mussie in 2018 during the month leading up to the 2018 Game Design contest of Gen Can't (an online unconference initially created as a joking alternative for people who can't attend Gen Con.) Each game card shows a different flower, together with text describing its secret meaning in the Victorian "language of flowers." After winning the Gen Can't contest, the game was published by Button Shy games, funded by a Kickstarter campaign with a $1000 goal that instead brought in more than $80,000.

Hargrave is also working on games about migrating monarch butterflies, mushroom, and the genetics of dog-fox hybrids.

References

• Tussie Mussie GGS https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/257614/tussie-mussie http://www.gencant.com/gencant-2018-end/ http://www.gencant.com/gencant2018-game-design-winner/
• "Tussie-Mussie won the 2018 Button Shy - GenCan't Design contest," said interviewer in Punchboard Media interview Jan 2019<ref name="PbMedia"> {{Cite web |url=https://www.punchboardmedia.com/home/2019/1/30/punchboard-media-in-focus-interview-with-elizabeth-hargrave |title=Punchboard Media: In Focus - Interview with Elizabeth Hargrave |last=Buscemi|first=Eric |publisher=Punchboard Media |quote=I spent a lot of time researching publishers and trying to think about who would be a good fit to take a chance on this theme. I pitched to three different publishers at GenCon 2016. At the time, Stonemaier had a set of GenCon events for pitches: you could just go online and get a ticket for a half-hour meeting without telling them what your game was up-front. With the other publishers it was a more direct interaction of emailing them, explaining the game, and asking for a meeting, which I think is more normal. |date=December 7, 2018 |accessdate=March 24, 2019}}</ref>
• Girls Game Shelf interview January 2019 also talks about her game Tussie Mussie, which won a prize. <ref name="GGS"> {{Cite web |url=https://girlsgameshelf.com/2019/01/designing-women-elizabeth-hargrave/ |title=Designing Women: Elizabeth Hargrave |author=AnnaMaria |work=Girls Game Shelf |quote=I always wonder what the world of boardgames is missing out by having most designers fitting within such a limited demographic profile. I would love to help figure out how to get more women, genderqueer folks, and people of color over that initial hurdle of entering the design space. I don’t want to be too existentialist about it, but are we stuck in a chicken-and-egg cycle where there are fewer women designers because there are fewer women gamers, and there are fewer women gamers because a lot of the games designed by men don’t interest a lot of women? |date=January 15, 2019 |accessdate=December 23, 2019}}</ref>
• Journal of Geek Studies February 2019
• NYT Elizabeth Hargrave game designer March 11 2019 {{Cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/11/science/wingspan-board-game-elizabeth-hargrave.html |title=She Invented a Board Game With Scientific Integrity. It’s Taking Off. |last= Roberts|first=Siobhan |work=NY Times |quote=Ms. Hargrave, a health-policy consultant in Silver Spring, Md., is an avid birder...A spreadsheet geek with a master’s degree in public affairs, she spent more than a decade as a policy analyst with NORC at the University of Chicago. There, she studied, among other things, prescription drug trends for the report to Congress by the Medicare Payment Advisory Commission. She is now self-employed...Ms. Hargrave also has a card game, Tussie Mussie, about the Victorian language of flowers, launching in May, and a game about monarch butterflies, with the working title Mariposas, due for release next year...Ms. Hargrave’s home habitat, which she shares with her landscape-designer husband, Matt Cohen |date=March 11, 2019 |accessdate=November 27, 2019}}
• Geeks and Sundry https://geekandsundry.com/bird-and-gaming-enthusiasts-take-flight-in-wingspan/
• Smithsonian March 12 2019
• Ars Technica review of Wingspan
• Nature story just points to NYT article
• Audubon about game <ref name="Audubon"> {{Cite web |url=https://www.audubon.org/news/birds-star-one-years-hottest-board-games-wingspan|title=Birds Star In One of This Year's Hottest Board Games |last=McLoughlin |first=Shaymus |work=Audubon |quote=Hargrave and her husband loved nature, and had recently started birding. All their friends were similarly outdoorsy. “Why,” she posed to the group, “are there no games about things we are into?” That conversation led Hargrave, a health policy consultant in Maryland, to a realization: She should make one. Now, her debut board game Wingspan is one of the industry’s hottest titles for 2019 and is netting rave reviews. |date=December 7, 2018 |accessdate=November 27, 2019}}</ref>
• Hyattsville local paper interview about local birding as much as about game

References

V.S. Ramachandran

Putting together RS for each area of Ramachandran's research.

RS that describe several different areas of research

• 1993 Discover (magazine) [13] talks about how blind spot research inspired looking at neuroplasticity and amputation
• 2009 Colapinto's New Yorker profile.[14] I downloaded pdf of it.
• 2001 Nova transcript
• 2019 Probably not RS but clearly explains many aspects

Early research on vision

• 2011 early inspiration India Today: But his scientific temperament, possibly nurtured by his mathematician mother, was fired up by a book he read by Richard Gregory, psychologist and a leading scientist on visual perception. And he started experimenting on how the two eyes look harmoniously. In 1972, he sent a paper to the most-respected science journal, Nature, and to his amazement they published it immediately. "That's important in science," he says. "You get an early reinforcement and then you become cocky and bold."

2009 Colapinto. first experiment on retinal rivalry. Second, more ambitious on role of contours in stereopsis. Wrote to Cambridge, with some ideas. "Braddick and another researcher, Fergus Campbell, invited Ramachandran to visit Cambridge for a month, at the university’s expense, to conduct experiments. The results of one experiment, on which Braddick collaborated, were published as 'Orientation-Specific Learning in Stereopsis,'"

Phantom limbs

• 1992 NYT
• 1993 Discover Magazine
• 2016 Qtips and MEG
• 2 review articles from 2018

Mirror neurons

• 2016 Mirror Neurons After a Quarter Century: New light, new cracks

Mirror box

• 2011 [15]
• 2011 mirror therapy for pain

Broken mirror theory of autism

• 2006 review article
• 2013 mixed evidence, prefers top-down theory
• 2018 suggests multilayer model Review article, full text available

References

===Some informative quotes:

• 2011 India Today profile:

  "I thought, if I could trick his brain into believing that it was moving, somehow the pain might go away." There were some mirrors lying around and he thought of putting those in a manner that if the patient moved his good arm, it gave the illusion of the phantom arm moving. A simple but startling experiment, as the patient shouted in relief. "For the first time in 10 years he felt that his phantom arm was moving. And that alleviated the pain." Ramachandran's intuition was later confirmed by brain imaging.

• 2011, neuroplasticity paradigm shift [article]:

  The paradigm shift in neurology in recent years has been the adoption of a more flexible model of how the brain works. It used to be thought that there was a series of zones that governed separate hard-wired functions. But Ramachandran has helped revise that view. In the 90s, he conducted brain-imaging experiments that clearly demonstrated that damaged brains are able to transfer functions to healthy sections of the brain and, in so doing, reorganise the sensory map. Neuroplasticity, as it's called, gives us a much more acute understanding of how the brain works

Roger Shepard research

Stanford psychologist Roger N. Shepard, note that Lynne A Cooper has no article yet.[16][17] Neither has Jacqueline Metzler.

• Shepard graduated from Stanford in 1951.
• More info about 2002 ranking in top 99.

Generalization and representational spaces

Lanius bucephalus (eating Earthworm). 1987 Shepard paper gives example of bird deciding if a particular worm is edible or not, based on its experience with one previous worm.

• Grad studies at Yale, 1955 thesis: "I was now convinced that the problem of generalization was the most fundamental problem confronting learning theory. Because we never encounter exactly the same total situation twice, no theory of learning can be complete without a law governing how what is learned in one situation generalizes to another."
• Postdocs--two years at Harvard, one at ONR
• Mental representations imagined as abstract multidimensional "representation space"
• Universal law of generalization 1987 paper
• Exponential decay

Non-metric multidimensional scaling

• Bell Labs, starting 1958, there 8 years
• Idea improved by colleague there
• 1977 award especially for multidimensional scaling:

Musical cognition, Shepard tones

• 1964

Mental transformations, mental rotations

• Stanford years
• November 16, 1968 dream
• 1971 paper w J Metzler. Abstract: “The time required to recognize that two perspective drawings portray objects of the same three-dimensional shape is found to be (i) a linearly increasing function of the angular difference in the portrayed orientations of the two objects and (ii) no shorter for differences corresponding simply to a rigid rotation of one of the two-dimensional drawings in its own picture plane than for differences corresponding to a rotation of the three-dimensional object in depth.”
• Short descriptions
• 1982 book: Shepard, R.N. and Cooper, L. (1982), Mental Images and their Transformations, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press. isbn 978-0262690997 MIT Press summary: "This book collects some of the most exciting pioneering work in perceptual and cognitive psychology. The authors' quantitative approach to the study of mental images and their representation is clearly depicted in this invaluable volume of research which presents, interprets, evaluates, and extends their work. The selections are preceded by a thorough review of the history of their experiments, and all of the articles have been updated with reviews of the current literature. The book's first part focuses on mental rotation; the second includes other, more complex transformations and sequences of transformations. A third part describes work on rotational transformations in the context of the perceptual illusion of "apparent motion."[18]
• Review of 1982 book has a lot of useful info about rotation research:

Discrimination time

• threshold shortest time, then asymptotic as reciprocal distance

Optical illusions and ambiguous images

• 1990 book Mind Sights

Evolutionary theory of mind

• William James lectures at Harvard 1994
• Why thought experiments work as well as they do

References

Nazo Dharejo

Nazo Dharejo also known as Naz Mukhtiar Dharejo and as Waderi Nazo Dharejo (born 1976/1977) is a Pakistani activist and politician. Her defense of her agricultural lands against male relatives inspired her nickname "Pakistan's toughest woman" and also the 2017 movie My Pure Land.

Nazo Dharejo's father Haji Khuda Buksh Khan Dharejo was a landlord from a Zamindar family that owned agricultural land Pakistan's Sindh Province. Nazo Dharejo is his oldest daughter with his second wife Waderi Jamzadi. She was born in a haveli in Qazi Ahmed.

Haji Khuda Baksh hired tutors for his daughters, so Nazo Dharejo learned Urdu and English in addition to Sindhi. She then earned her Bachelor of Arts in economics at Sindh University.

Haji Khuda Baksh taught his daughters as well as his son to use firearms in case they might need to defend the family's land. The father of Haji Khuda Baksh (Nazo Dharejo's grandfather) had four wives and several other sons. The grandfather's death created strong disputes about inheritance. After Nazo Dharejo's only brother was killed, and her father was jailed, some male relatives tried to take over the land where Nazo Derejo was living with her mother and sisters. Instead of yielding the land, Nazo Dharejo with her sisters and her husband Zulfiqar Dharejo (they are first cousins) defended themselves by shooting at their attackers.

Then Nazo Dharejo's male relatives recruited 200 dacoits to attack the farm at night, in August, 2005. Nazo Dharejo led the armed defense against them, firing her Kalashnikov when they tried to approach the buildings. In legal battles that followed these armed attacks, Dharejo and her family won half a million rupees (S$6,459) in compensation.

Nazo Dharejo has been active in politics with the PML-N party under the name Mukhtar Nazo Dharejo. In 2013, she was listed as one of the women on their reserved seats for Sindh.

My Pure Land

Main article: My Pure Land

After reading a 2012 newsstory titled "Meet Nazo Dharejo: The toughest woman in Sindh," British-Pakistani filmmaker Sarmad Masud wanted to make a movie about her defense of her family's land. The movie was filmed in Urdu rather than Sindhi. Sindhi classical dancer Suhaee Abro played the lead role of Nazo Dharejo. Masud describes the film as "a modern-day feminist Western set in Pakistan, based on the extraordinary true story of one woman and her family who defended their home and land from 200 bandits."

Refs with quotes

• 2012 article that was seed of movie. She was 36 on June 17, 2012. Quote "Nazo Dharejo was the first of three daughters born to Haji Khuda Buksh Khan Dharejo and his second wife, Waderi Jamzadi, in a haveli in Dedhan village, Qazi Ahmed." She learned to speak Urdu and English. She and her husband, who is her first cousin, have three daughters and a son.
• How filmmaker met Nazo due to 2012 article. As of 2 Oct 2017, ND was 41 years old.
  • Other refs from previous article
• 2013 she is PML-N politician.
• list of priority reserved seats includes "Mukhtiar Nazo Dharejo" under "Women seats (Sindh Assembly)" for PML-N.
• Can't access, website asks me to install Flash
• Can't access, host not resolved.
  • Additional refs
• Straits times interviewed her, tells some of story, when discussing film Same text also here [19]
• Photo gallery (same photos and apparently same text as Straits Times) Her husband's name is Zulfiqar Dharejo.
• Interview, calls her "Mukhtar Naz Dharejo" says she is from Zamindar family.

References

Felix Marquardt

Drafting article

Felix Marquardt , born 5 January 1975 in Paris, is a journalist and a consultant in international relations. His Huffington Post biography describes him as "Executive Director of the think tank Youthonomics and CEO of mYgration." http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/felix-marquardt

Note to self, he has been a regulat contributor to Huffpo since 2011, so once article is created add name to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:The_Huffington_Post_writers_and_columnists ?

Potential sources

• Vanity Fair 2013 [20] e.g. "I met Felix Marquardt, an Austrian-American who owns a political-P.R. firm in Paris and was, this evening, hosting what he called an “Emerging Times Dinner.” He and the event kind of set the tone at Davos. Marquardt, 38, a former hip-hop producer who dropped out of Columbia and calls himself a “self-made rich kid,” looks like a younger, stubblier Ben Affleck. He wears fluorescent Nikes with his chic suits and oozes charm. His client list is classy and widely diverse: he works or has done work for two Nobel peace prize winners (José Ramos-Horta, from East Timor, who is currently the UN’s Special Representative in Guinea Bissau, and Bangladeshi microfinance wizard Muhammad Yunus); he is advisor to one of the most powerful men in France, Christophe de Margerie, CEO of the energy company Total (one of Europe’s top market caps); he acts or has acted as a top consultant to the presidents of Columbia, Georgia, and Panama as well as opposition leaders (and potential future prime ministers) from other countries such as Sam Rainsy, of Cambodia, and Anwar Ibrahim, of Malaysia. Marquardt’s firm, Marquardt & Marquardt—its slogan is “Beyond Influence”—has also done work for NGOs such as the Gates Foundation and Women for Women International...The son of a wealthy Austrian lawyer and an American-born Greek-Hungarian art gallerist, Marquardt said he was born 'with a silver spoon with diamonds in my mouth.” But he grew up hating the ambiance of wealth, choosing to make his friends among the rappers in Paris’s suburbs rather than the children of rich expats and Parisian elites. “I got kicked out of six schools, including Northfield Mount Hermon in the U.S.A.,” he says, almost proudly. His early business ventures, including hip-hop producing, backed by his father, went sour due to what he admits was his own poor management. In 2003, at the age of 28, he found himself jobless and without a future. “Suicidal, at rock bottom. / I had everything and lost it and had to re-build myself,” he told me. Which was the American in him talking. (Rather than second acts, failure in France more often leads to sulking and existential despair.) But he knew his future lay somewhere in exploiting his social skills and his contacts. He joined the International Herald Tribune as a communications director, where he quickly made a mark getting journalists on TV and on panels at global-elite gatherings such as Davos."
• NYTimes oped 2013 [21] The Best Hope for France’s Young? Get Out, June 29, 2013. e.g. "To many French people, it’s a completely foreign notion that, around the world and throughout history, voting with one’s feet has been the most widely available means to vote at all. Leave that kind of voting to others, they think, to the Portuguese, the Italians, the Spaniards and the Africans — to all those waves of immigrants who came to France over the course of the last century. France has always been a land to which people dream of coming. Not leaving. When the journalist Mouloud Achour, the rapper Mokless and I published a column in the French daily Libération last September, arguing that France was a decrepit, overcentralized gerontocracy and that French youths should pack their bags and go find better opportunities elsewhere in the world, it caused an uproar."
• Nov 2015 article in UK's The Telegraph: [22] Title "Paris terror attacks: We Muslims must hunt down these monsters who make a mockery of our religion: In the face of acts of horror, Muslims cannot remain quiet bystanders"
• Huffpo article that resulted in death threats 2015 [23] Muslim Democrats of the World, Unite! 02/09/2015 e.g. "It is time we stop projecting cultural parochialisms onto religious dogma: muslims around the world should be able to understand much more clearly where Islam ends and where indigenous cultural practice begins. It is time we question the legitimacy and overbearing influence of certain politically and socially backward countries in deciding what is Islamic and what is not, who is a good Muslim and who is not. And just as importantly, it is time we give far more weight in the latter matter to Asian muslims, in no small measure more appeased, democratic and legitimate, by virtue of sheer demography, in the twenty-first century. The muslims of Asia, those of Europe, subsaharan Africa and the Americas are not second-class muslims. Too often, the opposition between Western and certain Arab governments has been masqueraded as one between Western and Muslim people. Whatever the nationality and religious creed, humans must be free to approach their citizenship and relation to religion as they see fit." coauthored with some very impressive coauthors

Felix Marquardt - Executive Director of the think tank Youthonomics and CEO of mYgration
Tariq Ramadan -Professor of Contemporary Islamic studies, Oxford; Author, ‘The Quest for Meaning’
Ghaleb Bencheikh - President of the World Conference for Religions for Peace
Anwar Ibrahim - Fmr. Vice Prime Minister of Malaysia, head of the national opposition and chairman of the World Forum for Muslim Democrats

• Huffpo on Brexit 2016 [24] Strangely, Huffpo has two different Felix Marquardt pages, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/felix-marquardt/ and http://www.huffingtonpost.com/author/felix-marquardt
• French Wikipedia on Felix Marquardt [25]

Elizabeth Webb Wilson, American mathematician and economist (1896 - 1980)

I am surprised she does not have an article yet. I just checked Elizabeth_Wilson_(disambiguation) to make sure. I think the main reason I lost interest and stopped work on this was that she was such a foe of "socialized medicine," and maybe other wikipedians felt the same. HouseOfChange (talk) 20:36, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

Papers at Harvard library http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~sch00786 Extract: "EWW received her AM '20, Ph.D. '34 in economics from Radcliffe. She became an actuary, a calculator of insurance risks and premiums, and was the first woman ever selected to be a delegate to the International Congress of Acutaries (1927). An expert on health insurance, she vigorously opposed nationally financed health care on grounds of economic feasibility and quality of service. She published several articles and a book--Compulsory Health Insurance-- about this subject and conducted studies of the Rhode Island Cash Sickness Insurance System and socialized medicine in Europe. During WWI, EWW was chief computer of the Ballistics Unit of the Army's Ordinance Department and in WWII, she served as an actuary for the Social Security Board in Washington, D.C."

https://books.google.com/books?id=YTcDAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA182&lpg=PA182&dq=elizabeth+webb+wilson+harvard&source=bl&ots=4y8VmTl-6_&sig=fu5MRVWQykRNudUbEfc3z4arBVI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=fCiyVNffFNjeoATUt4KQCw&ved=0CCwQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=elizabeth%20webb%20wilson%20harvard&f=false

When Computers Were Human (Google eBook)

David Alan Grier Princeton University Press, Nov 1, 2013 - Science - 424 pages 2 Reviews

"Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology."

p 138

1896 - 1980

daughter of a Washington physician, studied math at GWU, top math student in class, first to win the school's top math prize. In 1918, "When she heard that the federal government would employ women in war offices, she applied for a job that would "release a man for the front." It was the 'patriotic thing to do,' she recalled."

p. 152 postwar, after a year of seeking math employment in vain, she became a high school math teacher in DC.

• From yet another source http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/2695415?sid=21105603758253&uid=4&uid=3739256&uid=3739552&uid=2

Dr. Veblen Takes a Uniform Mathematics in the First World War David Alan Grier The American Mathematical Monthly Vol. 108, No. 10 (Dec., 2001), pp. 922–931 (article consists of 10 pages) Published by: Mathematical Association of America DOI: 10.2307/2695415 Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/2695415

Quote (pages 928-929)

• The only way to compute complete trajectories was to integrate the differential equations numerically. At the time, this procedure was known as the method of small arcs. The mathematical staff calculated only a few of the anti-aircraft trajectories them- selves before they started to delegate the work to others. By early summer, they estab- lished standard procedures for creating range tables, ballistics reports, and even tables of special functions. Rather than compute these tables themselves, they hired human computers. At Aberdeen, they were able to find enlisted men to do the calculations. In Washington, D. C., men were scarce and so Forest Moulton turned to women who had been mathematics majors in college.

By early summer, Moulton hired eight women. All had graduated from prominent universities during the prior two years. All had been mathematics majors. They came from University of Chicago, Brown University, Cornell University, Northwestern Uni- versity, Columbia University and the George Washington University. For these women, the war was an opportunity to play a role, perhaps only briefly, on the public stage.

• The new ordnance computers were taking positions that were commonly held by men. Only one institution, the Harvard Observatory, hired large numbers of female computers before the war. The director of the observatory, Edward Pickering, justified this practice by noting that he could pay female computers half the salary earned by the male computers in government service. The women who worked for Moulton got their jobs, at least in part, because the military could not find enough men to fill their clerical positions. However, they identified their work with the women's suffrage movement,

which reached its climax during the year of the war. The same streets that carried war workers to their offices were also the sites of suffrage protests. Protesters ringed the White House and marched down Pennsylvania Avenue. A Congressional aide remem- bered seeing "cultured, intellectual women arrested and dragged off to prison because of their method of giving publicity to what they believed to be the truth." [lo,p. 1351

• The first computer to join Moulton, Elizabeth Webb Wilson, had watched the suf- frage protests on her way to college. She had grown up in the District of Columbia and attended college at the George Washington University, next to the White House. She had been willing to sit out the war unless she found a job that made "sufficient use of her mathematical talent." [3] She rejected nine offers before accepting the computing job with the ordnance department. Her first assignment was to prepare a new range table for field artillery. She eventually became Moulton's assistant and the leader of the office computer.

Quote (page 930):

• Even Elizabeth Webb Wilson was able to create a leadership role for herself, though the task was harder for her. Unlike her male co-workers, she had difficulty finding a job in the years that followed the war. She taught high school for a few years, trained as an actuary, and then completed an economics Ph.D. at Radcliffe. For three years in the late 1940s, she was a prominent figure in the debate over national health insurance. She authored a major study of health insurance of a proposed pre-cursor to Medi- care and testified to congressional committees. She wrote opinion pieces for The New

York Times. The editors of The Nation considered her the leading conservative critic of health insurance. During the 1950s, she was the unofficial hostess for American math- ematics. In her apartment, across Cambridge Square from the Harvard campus, she held dinner parties for visiting mathematicians, paying special attention to her former colleagues at the Army ballistics office.

Don Sherman, comedian

Don Sherman is the father of Amy Sherman-Palladino. I was mistaken in thinking her dad was Allan Sherman, one of the comedians my parents loved, and whose LP records I listened to many times in my childhood. But I still want to research Don Sherman.

* http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0792421/ "startiDon Sherman was born on March 1, 1932 in Meramec, Missouri, USA. He was an actor and writer, known for Rocky (1976), Rocky V (1990) and Rocky Balboa (2006). He was married to Maybin Hewes. He died on June 15, 2012 in Los Angeles, California, USA."

* http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-et-st-marvelous-mrs-maisel-sherman-palladino-20171129-story.html "The series also represents a homecoming of sorts for Sherman-Palladino. Her father, Don Sherman, a comedian from the Bronx, used to regale her with colorful anecdotes from his days in New York's early stand-up scene. / I was living in the San Fernando Valley — some cruel twist of fate stuck me there, and I would be hearing about this place that was all energy and comedy and intellect and politics," Sherman-Palladino says. "It sounded like Xanadu.""

* http://classicshowbiz.blogspot.com/2011/04/interview-with-don-sherman-part-one.html "Don Sherman: I had done a little performing in the army. They said if I got into special services I could avoid KP. At that time I had no idea I would be a professional stand-up comic, but it was personal therapy for me. These things would happen to me and they would be very funny, so when I was in the army I discussed the physical indoctrination and all you go through and people started to laugh. They eventually asked me to entertain some of the troops once when it was raining and we were in the back of a truck. They got me into special services and I started to entertain. I ran into the famous Robert Orben books. Robert Orben books helped stand-up comics. He would break down a monologue. He'd talk about driving to a nightclub and then he'd have down fifteen different driving jokes. Through that you would construct an act. When I got out of the army I really didn't have the courage to try and become a comic. Thankfully I was a young kid in New York and lot of the kids in New York worked in the Catskill mountains as busboys and waiters. I had a great feeling for comedy so I would rush to finish my job to go and see all these great comics like Alan King and Joey Bishop and those people." Paraphrasing, Joey Bishop invited Sherman to Vegas ca 1958-59. At the end, this interview has a great anecdote about Bob Newhart, also mentions many other big comic names.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lCNRqKXXFk Also found a couple of YouTube videos of Don Sherman with his wife of 50+ years Maybin Hewes, an actress who has appeared in Gilmore Girls, Bunheads, and Marvelous Mrs Maisel.
• https://www.nytimes.com/1962/04/19/archives/television.html Appeared on Mike Wallace show P.M. w Carol Channing 1962.
• https://www.nytimes.com/1970/03/16/archives/mendes-and-brasil-66-project-polish-and-power.html Carnegie Hall 1966
• http://variety.com/2018/tv/news/remote-controlled-amy-sherman-palladino-dan-palladino-marvelous-mrs-maisel-rachel-brosnahan-1202651929/ Variety, from interview w Amy S-P about MMMaisel "The world of Greenwich Village comedy clubs that Midge explores was something that loomed large in her childhood, as the daughter of stand-up comedian Don Sherman. She grew up in Southern California, but stories of famed New York clubs, excursions to the Catskills, and comedians filled her family home. “I grew up with stand-up comedians hanging out in my house,” Sherman-Palladino says. “Stand-up comedians either work a lot or they have a lot of time on their hands to hang around with each other eating deli and making each other laugh. It was like ‘Broadway Danny Rose’ a lot of the time at my house.”"

Antoine Dufour (bishop)

• https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Dufour_(%C3%A9v%C3%AAque)
• https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joan_of_Arc_on_horseback.png
• https://books.google.com/books?id=0OM9AAAAcAAJ&pg=PA277&lpg=PA277&dq=antoine+dufour+arc&source=bl&ots=j2rsZne2Jg&sig=2B-uLc5GpOkR0tHkrOWI5Cleuu0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiQ1ZnL7czZAhWDu1MKHUyBCCYQ6AEIYDAI#v=onepage&q=antoine%20dufour%20arc&f=false "Confessor of Louis XII and of Anne of Bretagne, was charged by that queen to compose a History of celebrated women. In the MS of his work each section is preceded by a miniature..The 91st relates to Jeanne de Vaucouleurs, the illumination represents the heroicne on a white charger, in gilded armour, corresponding with the description of the "harnoys de la Pucelle" preserved in the royal armoury at Amboise." (Illustrator may have based image on actual armour.)
• https://www.questia.com/library/journal/1G1-450999508/les-vies-des-femmes-celebres-antoine-dufour-jean A really good quality source about his book. The illustrator seems to be not Dufour but a Parisian artist named Jean Pichore, who also has an article in French Wikipedia at https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Pichore
• https://play.google.com/books/reader?id=F8QXfFmvZCsC&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&hl=en&pg=GBS.PA294 Free online version of book in French, Histoire des confesseurs des empereurs, des rois et d'autres princes, by Henri Grégoire, 1824. p. 294 he became a Bishop in Marseilles in 07 and died in Milan in 1509.
• https://books.google.com/books?id=AT9KAQAAMAAJ&dq=confesseur+du+rois+dufour&q=dufour#v=snippet&q=dufour&f=false Another free Google book result, Société de l'histoire de France: Volume 125

H. Champion., 1864 - France, but it mentions only on p 284 Dufour's death in 1509, not very useful.

• https://books.google.com/books?id=og64rWTxkF4C&pg=PA65&dq=anne+bretagne+antoine+dufour&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiLkd7i8efZAhXsz4MKHYA7CO4Q6AEINzAC#v=onepage&q=anne%20bretagne%20antoine%20dufour&f=false

Cultural and Political Legacy of Anne de Bretagne.. ed by Cynthia Jane Brown. article by xx pp 68-69 Dufour quote in preface. "Pour ce que la plus commune partie des homme se adonnent `a blasmer les dame, tant di langue que de plume, et en ont composé des livres, comme Bocasse, Théophraste et ung tas d'aultres, j'ay bien voulu cercher par les ancienneds librairies `a celle fin de trouver aucun véritable acteur qui sagement, sagement, et loyallement parlast d'elles." (My English translation: "Because the most common part of mankind indulges in blaming the ladies, with both tongue and pen, and have composed books, such as Bocaccio, Theophrastus and a number of others, I have kindly sought out by the old libraries are for the purpose of finding any real actor who wisely, wisely, and loyally speaks of them."

Drafting article based on French wiki: Summary Antoine Dufour is a French Dominican who was the confessor of King Louis XII and Anne of Brittany, and Bishop of Marseilles.

Biography Originally from Orléans, Antoine Dufour entered this city's Dominican community, then continued his studies of theology at the convent of Saint Jacques in Paris . His erudition and his talents as an orator made him quickly known. King Louis XII and his wife Anne of Brittany took him to them as confessor.

(Unfortunately none of these claims have an online source.)

I think maybe instead of writing about Dufour himself, the book for which he is famous should get a wiki article. It is much more famous than he is. Or it might be a subsection in the bio of Anne of Bretagne, who commissioned it.

Kelly Frances

I saw this article at AfD. It had many problems but I thought the subject might become notable in the near future. I asked for it to be undeleted, and it was. I want to check back to review this bio's notability. If it increases, the not-very-good deleted draft was saved for me here: User:HouseOfChange/Kelly_Frances. It will really need a lot of work to be a good BLP.

Here is a good reference that could be used: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20140626001215, which is in-depth coverage of KF by an independent source.

Robert Seyfarth (scientist)

His (now-deceased) wife and lifelong collaborator Dorothy Cheney has an article; Robert Seyfarth (scientist) should also. Lots of references in the article for her also will work for him.HouseOfChange (talk) 12:00, 22 November 2018 (UTC)

Couldn't figure out procedure to submit draft, so I moved to mainspace as Robert Seyfarth (scientist).HouseOfChange (talk) 12:18, 23 November 2018 (UTC)

Drafting article

Robert M. Seyfarth (born February 16, 1948) is an American primatologist and author. With his collaborator Dorothy L. Cheney, he spent years studying the social behavior, communication, and cognition of wild primates in their natural habitat, including more than a decade of field work with baboons in the Okavango Delta of Botswana. Seyfarth, a Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania until his retirement, is a member of both the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Background and career

Seyfarth grew up in Chicago, but fishing trips with his father to Canada and the Caribbean taught him "to enjoy the wilderness even when we didn’t catch fish." During his senior year at Phillips Exeter Academy, he became interested in science after a course on Darwin. In 1970, he graduated from the honors program in Biological Anthropology at Harvard College. Fascinated by wild primates, Seyfarth then applied to work at Cambridge University with Robert Hinde, who had been the thesis advisor of Jane Goodall. Having been accepted by Hinde, Seyfarth then spent two years (1972-1974) in the field studying baboons in Mt. Zebra National Park in South Africa, together with Dorothy Cheney, whom he had recently married. In 1976, Seyfarth received a doctorate from Cambridge.

After a four-year postdoc at Rockefeller University, and another four years at UCLA as assistant professors, Seyfarth and Cheney moved to the University of Pennsylvania in 1985, where Seyfarth joined the Psychology Department.

Research

Seyfarth's research and publications were largely based on longterm field studies of primates in the natural habitat, usually in partnership with Cheney. From 1977 to 1988, Seyfarth and Cheney studied the behavior and ecology of vervet monkeys, in Kenya's Amboseli National Park. This research was summarized in their book How Monkeys See the World (1990). They showed that the alarm calls of vervet monkeys have specific semantic content, so that playing back a recording of one type of call makes monkeys look up in the sky for eagles, while playing back a different call makes monkeys scan the bushes for a snake. According to the Newsletter of the Animal Behavior Society,"These results were the first strong evidence that non-human vertebrates use signals to refer to things external to themselves, and as such revolutionized our understanding of the cognitive side of animal communication."

From 1992 to 2008, Seyfarth and Cheney studied vocal communication and social structure of baboons, at the Moremi Game Reserve in Botswana. This research was summarized in their book Baboon Metaphysics (2007). (The title is based on a comment by Charles Darwin: "He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.") Seyfarth and Cheney studied baboon vocalizations, social relationships, and social cognition, with a particular interest in factors that contribute to baboon fitness. Their research showed that baboons are acutely aware of hierarchies and relationships in the group they belong to. Baboon mothers who build good relationships with other adults greatly increase the chance of their offspring's survival. According to Seyfarth, the rules for successful baboons are like "a Jane Austen novel, be nice to your relatives and get in with the high-ranking relatives."

The Animal Behavior Society has described Seyfarth and Cheney as "pre-eminent leaders not just in primate communication but in the field of animal communication as a whole."

Honors

Seyfarth was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2012 and to the National Academy of Science in 2017.

The Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences awarded its 2010 Cozzarelli Prize, for the best article in the area of Behavioral and Social Sciences, to a paper about baboon collaboration coauthored by Cheney and Seyfarth.

Representative publications

• Cheney, D.L. & Seyfarth, R.M. (1990) How Monkeys See The World: Inside The Mind of Another Species. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226102467
• Cheney, D.L. & Seyfarth, R.M. (2007) Baboon Metaphysics: The Evolution of a Social Mind. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226102443
• Smuts, B., Cheney, D., Seyfarth, R., Wrangham, R. & Struhsaker, T. (1987) Primate Societies. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ISBN 9780226767161

Listing useful sources

(Note, I will move references up to the draft as I use them in it.)

PNAS profile of both DC and RS (2018)

NAS directory profile of RS

NYT obit of DC (2018)

2007 NYT interview

2009 report of talk by RS

Announcement of NAS election (2017)

Online CV (2018)

References

Project, create article based on Swedish wiki for teacher of Palmstedt

Draft based on rough translation of Swedish text

J E Carlberg

Johan Eberhard Carlberg, born February 24, 1683 in Gothenburg, Sweden, died October 22, 1773 in Stockholm, was a Swedish fortification officer and architect. He was Gothenburg's first city engineer, a position he held from 1717 until 1727. In 1727, he was appointed city architect in Stockholm, where he stayed for 45 years until 1772. He was an older brother of the engineer and architect Bengt Wilhelm Carlberg, who replaced him as a city engineer in Gothenburg when Johan Eberhard moved to Stockholm.

Life and works

Building plan for the Hobelinska house from 1767, signed by Eberhard Carlberg.

Carlberg began work in 1700 at the fortification in Marstrand, working at first as a volunteer but later (January 11, 1702 until 1703) as project leader. In 1703, Carlberg became a lieutenant in the Närkes and Värmlands reserve regiment (Swedish "tremänningsregementen"), participating in their field training in Latvia and Lithuania. In Gothenburg, Carlberg became a lieutenant at the fortification on November 19, 1709 and the city engineer on September 14, 1717. He resigned from the Gothenburg fortification with the rank of captain on February 18, 1721.

Carlberg took office on April 27, 1727 as a city architect in Stockholm, where he was responsible for the rebuilding of Slussen 1744-1753, the customs pavilions at Norrtull, the rebuilding of Alstavik on Långholmen, reconstruction of Danviken hospital, the church tower of Stockholm's Great Church, the reconstruction of the Bonde Palace and the Stora Sjötullen in Blockhusudden) in 1729. The Army's commissariat warehouse (1728-32 ) at Skeppsholmen is Carlberg's only fully preserved monumental building in Stockholm [1]. As city architect, he issued regulations intended to promote harmonious appearance of neighboring buildings and also established a "school" to train young architects. His critics, while praising Carlberg's "force and vigor" warned that "If you put more iron into the fire than you have time to watch over, many will get burned." Erik Palmstedt was one of the students in Carlstadt's "school," which he entered when only 14 years old.

Johan Eberhard Carlberg owned and lived in a house he inherited from his mother at the eastern side of Korsgatan and Vallgatan's north side in Gothenburg. The Carlbergsgatan street in the district of Gårda in Gothenburg is named for the Carlberg family. In the district of Överkikaren at Hornsgatan 24 in Södermalm, he designed and built a residential building in 1731-32 as his private residence (see Johan Eberhard Carlberg's house).

Family Carlberg's father was Johan Carlberg (1638-1701), bishop of Gothenburg 1689-1701. [2] Carlberg married three times: first, on June 24, 1708 with Magdalena von Seth (1686-1717), second, on 25th May 1718 with Birgitta Thingvall (1699-1732), and third, in 1733 with his second wife's cousin Christina Engel Geijer (1713-1781).

References

Project: red links in Plague column article

(I have a project to get rid of redlinks in article about Plague Column, Vienna where German wiki had an article but en-wiki didn't.)

• Tobias Kracker (created this article in en-wiki on July 6, 2018
• Matthias Rauchmiller (created this article in en-wiki on July 10, 2018
• Johann Bendel Dohhh, de-wiki has an article for this name, but for somebody else who died in 1943. I will work on something else, more productive, until another useful line opens up in this area. HouseOfChange (talk) 20:10, 19 July 2018 (UTC)
• Johann Frühwirth

Donna Zakowska, costume designer

While hunting RS for Mrs Maisel, I discovered several with extensive quotes from costume designer Donna Zakowska, especially this one from EW[26]

Draft

Donna Zakowska is an award-winning costume designer. According to AMC, "Donna Zakowska has designed for film, theatre, circus, opera, music and puppet theatre, including nine seasons for the Big Apple Circus and a concert tour for Mick Jagger." Her costume designs for John Adams (miniseries) won an Emmy Award in 2009. Her costumes for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel have been discussed in Vanity Fair and Vogue, among other outlets. Zakowska's costumes for The Marvelous Mrs Maisel have been nominated for a 2018 Emmy Award.

Life and early career

Donna Zakowska was born in Brooklyn in 1954. She attended Barnard College, the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and the Yale School of Drama.

During her early career, according to Zakowska, "I began designing the Big Apple Circus and working as an assistant on Woody Allen films."

Period costume, 18th century

Zakowska was head costume designer for HBO miniseries John Adams (2008). For her work on the series, she received an award from the Costume Designers Guild in 2008 and an Emmy in 2009.

Zakowska later became head costume designer for the AMC drama Turn: Washington's Spies, also set in the 18th century. which aired on AMC for four seasons, from April 2014 to August, 2017.

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel

The Marvelous Mrs Maisel is set in New York City in 1958. Zakowska describes her decision to work with series director Amy Sherman-Palladino as "instant chemistry. I’m a New Yorker and I loved the idea of working on a series about New York in the 50s. I've done eighteenth-century clothes, and earlier periods, but we have such clichés in our minds of what that period [the 1950s] looks like. It was a challenge to make this clothing interesting and exciting to people."

Collecting RS about her

She has won Emmy Award and therefore is notable:

• https://www.amc.com/shows/turn-2/cast-crew/donna-zakowska-costume-designer quote=Donna Zakowska – Costume Designer / Emmy Award-winning Donna Zakowska has designed for film, theatre, circus, opera, music and puppet theatre, including nine seasons for the Big Apple Circus and a concert tour for Mick Jagger. Zakowska began her film work with Woody Allen, John Turturro (Mac), and David Salle (Search and Destroy). Honored in 2009 by New York Women in Film and Television, Zakowska’s projects have included Harriet the Spy, The Pallbearer, Polish Wedding, Forces of Nature, Illuminata, One True Thing, Invisible Circus, Original Sin, Kate and Leopold, HBO’s Empire Falls, Romance and Cigarettes, Then She Found Me, HBO’s John Adams (for which she won both Costume Designer Guild and Emmy® Awards), Bunraku, Rehearsal for a Sicilian Tragedy, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You, Bless Me Ultima, The Iceman, Fading Gigolo and God’s Pocket. / Zakowska’s theater work has included projects with Eve Ensler, William H. Macy, and Julie Taymor, to name a few, and her designs have been seen at theaters throughout the world, including the Hebbel Theater in Berlin; London’s Barbizon and Royal Festival Hall; Bobigny, Châtelet and the Théâtre du Rond-Point in Paris; Rome’s Teatro Argentina; Teatro Mercadante in Naples; and BAM, Lincoln Center, and the Public Theater in New York. Her most recent projects include the miniseries Sons of Liberty, Martha Clarke’s Angel Reapers at the Joyce, Roman Paska’s Schoolboy Play at the National Theatre of Portugal, and Relatively Speaking (three plays by Woody Allen, Ethan Coen, and Elaine May, directed by John Turturro) on Broadway.Zakowska studied painting and dance at Columbia University and the École des Beaux Arts in Paris, and is a graduate of the Yale School of Drama.
• Very cool article, in-depth, talking about Maisel clothes
• Maisel hats [27]
• Costume slideshow, Vanity Fair, for 2014 show on AMC called Turn.
• Two WaPo articles about Turn, historical research plus instinct.
• Born in Brooklyn and other in-depth info in fashion zine.Another quote "I began designing the Big Apple Circus and working as an assistant on Woody Allen films. It's great to be around someone who is a master of their craft."
• More on Maisel
• 2009 award costume design, Designing Women[28]
• Those buggers! Vogue features a slide show of Maisel costumes in article that does not name Zakowska[29]

References

Lizzie Pannill Fletcher

Another Texas candidate for Congress, who came in first in the Democratic primary but still faces a runoff on May 22, against a candidate who got fewer primary votes in March primary but already has Wikipedia article, which was never nominated for Afd, Laura Moser.

Here are some references:

• United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_Texas,_2018#District_7
• https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/one-of-the-most-influential-unions-in-texas-just-came-out-against-a-rising-democratic-contender/
• https://offthekuff.com/wp/?p=80554
• https://www.texastribune.org/2018/03/06/us-house-democratic-races/

• Update May 2018, Moser still has an article (but Fletcher who beat her by about 70% to 30% in runoff) does not.) I edited Moser's article to reduce POV and update information. Here are 3 references I found and used to do that:
• DCCC action and defense of it
• DNC Perez disagrees.
• Our Revolution endorses Moser,
• Runoff results

• November update: Lizzie Pannill Fletcher, who now has a (very short) Wikipedia article, beat her Republican opponent and will be going to Congress. I am going to add some recent references on topics that came up after the primary.

References

"Obama coalition"

Why this article?

Many WP:RS use this term in headlines as if everybody knows what it means, (more than 100,000 results for "obama+coalition".) But what is it? Is it the coalition that elected Obama in 2008? Does that differ from the coalition that elected him in 2012? Is it as WHYY claims in 2018, "educated white professionals and minorities"?[30] Or is it as the NYT claimed in 2016 "an alliance between black voters and Northern white voters"?[31] According to Medium's article, which also refers to the coalition as "Obama’s Big Tent", "President Obama’s supporters ran the gamut on age, race, religion, and ideology in 2012."[32] So I think this is interesting and worth exploring.

We have an article on the New Deal coalition that would be a good model for creating this one, I think.

Noah Berlatsky

Starting to draft an article

Noah Berlatsky is an American author and journalist who "edits the comics and culture website the Hooded Utilitarian." http://www.slate.com/authors.noah_berlatsky.html His book Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter Comics, 1941-1948 was published by Rutgers University Press in 2015 http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/Wonder-Woman,5280.aspx

References for Berlatsky

Noah Berlatsky is a notable blogger and journalist who should have an article, not a redlink. He writes for a lot of high-profile and notable sites including The Guardian and The Atlantic.

Here are some brief bio/contribution pages from places he writes for:

• http://www.theatlantic.com/author/noah-berlatsky/
• http://www.theguardian.com/profile/noah-berlatsky
• http://www.slate.com/authors.noah_berlatsky.html

Here are some interesting articles by Noah Berlatsky:

• http://qz.com/708265/why-sex-offender-registries-dont-work/
• http://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2014/10/wonder-womans-feminism/381579/
• https://randomnerds.com/critic-as-artist-as-geek-feminist-revolutionary-an-interview-with-kameron-hurley/

Here are his website, his book, and some reviews

• http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/
• http://rutgerspress.rutgers.edu/product/Wonder-Woman,5280.aspx
• http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-0-8135-6418-0 (Review of his book)
• http://www.tcj.com/reviews/wonder-woman-bondage-and-feminism-in-the-marstonpeter-comics-1941-1948/ (book review)

Here are some articles about him:

• http://therumpus.net/2015/01/the-saturday-rumpus-interview-with-noah-berlatsky/
• https://publikprivate.org/2015/05/15/p-p-writer-to-writer-series-a-short-chat-with-noah-berlatsky/
• http://www.feministcurrent.com/2015/04/26/noah-berlatsky-is-going-to-objectify-women-straight-to-freedom/ (angry hit piece that doesn't show much about Berlatsky except that some people who hate him want critique quite a wide range of his writing)

Redrafting material on Giordano and politics

Potential 2018 senatorial campaign (draft, early May)

In June 2016, journalists Joy-Ann Reid and Noah Berlatsky reported that Giordano planned to challenge independent Senator Bernie Sanders for his United States Senate seat from Vermont if Sanders failed to endorse Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Both Reid and Berlatsky regarded Giordano's decision as surprising, because of his leftwing politics and 2008 opposition to Hillary Clinton.

Boston Magazine noted that Giordano was an early supporter when Sanders ran for mayor of Burlington, and for some years thereafter, but lost enthusiasm in 1994 when Sanders refused to "align with" Barney Frank and other Democrats then working together to oppose House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

Giordano told both Reid and Berlatsky that he saw his candidacy as a way to defend the "Obama coalition." According to Berlatsky:

Giordano thinks Sanders has disrupted that critical progressive coalition. The Vermont senator "has a blind spot on racial justice issues," Giordano argues. He is "exploiting racial and gender divisions... in a way that harms the movement." For instance, Sanders' comments about the illegitimacy of the primary process, and dismissal of Clinton's victories in Southern states, which were fueled by black voters, have "poisoned the well," Giordano says, and made unity against the Republicans difficult.

According to Reid, Giordano told her, "For me this is not about Hillary Clinton, who has her strengths and she has her flaws...This is about a coalition that has saved the United States and can keep saving it, and this is what needs to be protected. And so maybe it’s time for the Obama coalition to go to Vermont.”

Later, however, Giordano said that he was battling cancer and so would not challenge Sanders for his seat.

References

RE-draft, mid-May

Concerning the 2008 election, particularly the primaries, there is quite a bit of information online.

Concerning the 2016, much of the focus will be on Giordano's opposition to Bernie Sanders. Maybe the 2 subsections should be titled "Support of BO in 2008" and "Opposition to Bernie Sanders in 2016."

Support of BO in 2008

In the 2008 Democratic primaries, Giordano was an enthusiastic supporter of Barack Obama, and an opponent of Hillary Clinton.

Opposition to Bernie Sanders in 2016

Giordano, who was introduced to Vermont politics when he became involved in activism against twin nuclear plants in Vernon, Vermont and Rowe, Massachusetts, was an early supporter of Bernie Sanders when he ran for mayor of Burlington (1980), and for some years thereafter. Giordano lost enthusiasm in 1994, when Sanders refused to "align with" Barney Frank and other Democrats working together to oppose House Speaker Newt Gingrich.

During Democratic primaries for 2016 presidential election, Giordano's negative comments about Sanders in his Twitter feed and newsletter provoked some angry responses from supporters of Sanders. In June 2016, journalists Joy-Ann Reid, Noah Berlatsky, and others reported that Giordano planned to challenge independent Senator Bernie Sanders for his United States Senate seat from Vermont if Sanders failed to endorse Hillary Clinton at the 2016 Democratic National Convention. Both Reid and Berlatsky regarded Giordano's decision as surprising, because of his leftwing politics and 2008 opposition to Hillary Clinton.

Giordano told both Reid and Berlatsky that he saw his candidacy as a way to defend the "Obama coalition" against supporters of Bernie Sanders. According to Berlatsky:

Giordano thinks Sanders has disrupted that critical progressive coalition. The Vermont senator "has a blind spot on racial justice issues," Giordano argues. He is "exploiting racial and gender divisions... in a way that harms the movement." For instance, Sanders' comments about the illegitimacy of the primary process, and dismissal of Clinton's victories in Southern states, which were fueled by black voters, have "poisoned the well," Giordano says, and made unity against the Republicans difficult.

According to Reid, Giordano told her, "For me this is not about Hillary Clinton, who has her strengths and she has her flaws...This is about a coalition that has saved the United States and can keep saving it, and this is what needs to be protected. And so maybe it’s time for the Obama coalition to go to Vermont.”

Later, however, Giordano said that he was battling cancer and so would not challenge Sanders for his seat.

Post-election articles on efforts vs Trump and GOP

• Esquire on organizing work

• New Yorker on Doug Jones race.

References

Joy Ann Reid controversial section

As of May 1, 2018

In 2017, a Twitter user reported finding posts written between 2007 and 2009 on Reid's former blog "Reid Report", suggesting Democratic Representative Charlie Crist (who was then the Republican governor of Florida) was a closeted homosexual. Following criticism of the posts as homophobic, Reid apologized, calling the posts "tone deaf." Crist responded thanking Reid for her apology. In April 2018, the same Twitter user reported on additional posts from the defunct blog. According to The New York Times, these posts included "claims that gay men prey on 'impressionable teens'". Reid subsequently claimed the posts uncovered in April 2018 were fabricated, and planted by hackers. CNN noted that journalists who had investigated Reid's hacking claims had called them into question, and reported also a rebuttal from the Wayback Machine (which archived Reid's posts). Reid's security consultant, Jonathan Nichols, responded that "at no time has Ms. Reid claimed that the Wayback Machine was hacked." He said Reid's team detected a "breach" of her blog but that it was unrelated to the "fraudulent" posts.

Reid's employer, MSNBC, called her blog posts "offensive" and said her writings and tweets were "harmful to the LGBT community." Reid opened the April 28, 2018, edition of AM Joy with an apology, saying, "I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me. But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don't believe me. I've not been exempt from being dumb or cruel or hurtful to the very people I want to advocate for. I own that. I get it. And for that, I am truly, truly sorry." She also said, "I hired cybersecurity experts to see if someone had manipulated my words or my former blog, and the reality is they have not been able to prove it."

References

Drafting better version

On November 30, 2017, a Twitter user reported finding posts written between 2007 and 2009 on Reid's former blog "Reid Report", suggesting that Florida's then-Governor Charlie Crist was a closeted homosexual. Following criticism of the posts as homophobic, Reid apologized, calling the posts "insensitive, tone deaf and dumb." Crist responded thanking Reid for her apology. After reviewing more posts from her old blog, which she did not remember making, Reid asked lawyers to investigate if her blog or its archives might have been hacked.

In April 2018, the same Twitter user reported on additional posts from the defunct blog. According to The Nation, these posts expressed "Ridiculing and recirculating rumors about purportedly closeted politicians and celebrities...Using the trope of gay sex to mock politicians and journalists...Opposition to same-sex marriage...Revulsion at gay sex." These new revelations prompted LGBT advocacy group PFLAG to rescind its plan to give Reid an award.

Reid opened the April 28, 2018, edition of AM Joy with an apology, saying, "I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me. But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don't believe me. I've not been exempt from being dumb or cruel or hurtful to the very people I want to advocate for. I own that. I get it. And for that, I am truly, truly sorry." She also said, "I hired cybersecurity experts to see if someone had manipulated my words or my former blog, and the reality is they have not been able to prove it." Response to her apology was divided along partisan lines.

• Replace crappy Paste magazine article with better contemporaneous article

<ref name="salon1712>{{cite web |url=https://www.salon.com/2017/12/04/joy-reid-apologizes-for-attacking-florida-congressman-in-tone-deaf-homophobic-blog-posts/ |title=Joy Reid apologizes for attacking "Florida Congressman in “tone deaf” homophobic blog posts|last=Leah|first=Rachel|date=December 4, 2017|website=salon.com|publisher=[[Paste (magazine)]]|access-date=May 2, 2018|quote="In addition to friends and coworkers and viewers, I deeply apologize to Congressman Crist, who was the target of my thoughtlessness. My critique of anti-LGBT positions he once held but has since abandoned was legitimate in my view," Reid added. "My means of critiquing were not."}}</ref>

• In earlier section, add relevant quote to Newsweek article, defined in an earlier section. They quote Charlie Crist's response via Twitter as "Long forgotten, but thank you, Joy. I appreciate you."

Improved by Kai Herman 0503

On November 30, 2017, a Twitter user reported finding posts written between 2007 and 2009 on Reid's former blog "Reid Report", suggesting that Florida's then-Governor Charlie Crist was a closeted homosexual. Following criticism of the posts as homophobic, Reid apologized, calling the posts "insensitive, tone deaf and dumb." Crist responded thanking Reid for her apology. After reviewing more posts from her old blog, which she did not remember making, Reid asked lawyers to investigate if her blog or its archives might have been hacked. The Wayback Machine, where the newly discovered posts had been found, said it detected no evidence of hacking in the archived versions of her site.

In April 2018, the same Twitter user reported on additional posts from the defunct blog. According to The Nation, these posts expressed "Ridiculing and recirculating rumors about purportedly closeted politicians and celebrities...Using the trope of gay sex to mock politicians and journalists...Opposition to same-sex marriage...Revulsion at gay sex." These new revelations prompted LGBT advocacy group PFLAG to rescind its plan to give Reid an award.

Reid's employer, MSNBC, called her blog posts "offensive" and said her writings and tweets were "harmful to the LGBT community." Reid opened the April 28, 2018, edition of AM Joy with an apology, saying, "I genuinely do not believe I wrote those hateful things because they are completely alien to me. But I can definitely understand, based on things I have tweeted and have written in the past, why some people don't believe me. I've not been exempt from being dumb or cruel or hurtful to the very people I want to advocate for. I own that. I get it. And for that, I am truly, truly sorry." She also said, "I hired cybersecurity experts to see if someone had manipulated my words or my former blog, and the reality is they have not been able to prove it." Response to her apology was divided along partisan lines.

References

Proposed list of recent sources

• <ref name="2006ishness"> >{{Cite web |url=https://www.thenation.com/article/the-very-specific-2006-ishness-of-those-alleged-joy-reid-posts/ |title=The Very Specific 2006-ishness of Those Alleged Joy Reid Posts |last=Kim |first=Richard |work=The Nation |quote=I don’t know if Reid wrote the posts in question, but it wouldn’t surprise me if she, or any liberal blogger at the time, had. |date=April 27, 2018 |accessdate=May 2, 2018}}</ref>
• <ref name="NYMag0428"> >{{Cite web |url=http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/04/joy-reids-missed-opportunity.html |title=Joy Reid's Missed Opportunity |last=Danner |first=Chas |work=New York Magazine |quote=After her extended apology, Reid hosted a panel of LGBT activists and invited them to “grill” her over the controversy. The resulting discussion, which covered a range of issues affecting the LGBT community, was more sympathetic than adversarial when it came to Reid’s remarks, however. |date=April 28, 2018 |accessdate=May 2, 2018}}</ref> Note this article includes clickable tweet by David Folkenflik saying "MSNBC executives remain supportive of Reid. They believe she did well in her statement on her show on Saturday and have noted the large outpouring of positive support she’s received." [https://twitter.com/davidfolkenflik/status/990572852595355649]
• <ref name="Wapo0428"> {{Cite web |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2018/04/28/joy-reid-apologizes-for-anti-lgbt-posts-says-she-cant-prove-her-blog-was-hacked/?utm_term=.2c70632241d0 |title=Joy Reid apologizes for anti-LGBT posts, says she can’t prove her blog was hacked |last=Wang |first=Amy B |work=Washington Post |quote=Reid’s apology received mixed reactions, split largely along party lines. The MSNBC host was widely panned by those on the right, who found her hacking claims flimsy and her apology halfhearted…Others, including Reid’s colleagues at NBC as well as members of the LGBT community who appeared on her show after her open, praised Reid for taking responsibility for her actions and for vowing to do better. |date=April 28, 2018 |accessdate=May 2, 2018}}</ref>
• <ref name="pflag"> {{Cite web |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/lgbt-advocacy-group-rescinds-award-to-joy-reid/ |title=LGBT advocacy group rescinds award to Joy Reid |work=CBS News |quote=When we extended our invitation to Ms. Reid to honor her at our 45th anniversary celebration, we did so knowing about the blog posts from the late 2000s regarding Charlie Crist. We appreciated how she stepped up, took ownership, apologized for them, and did better—this is the behavior and approach we ask of any ally. However, in light of new information, and the ongoing investigation of that information, we must at this time rescind our award to Ms. Reid. |date=April 27, 2018 |accessdate=May 2, 2018}}</ref>

Colleen McGuinness

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Happy to say I posted this article, which has survived and been improved at bit by others.

Colleen McGuinness is an American writer/producer of television comedies. After joining 30 Rock in 2012, she shared in its 2013 Emmy for best series as well as in its 2013 and 2014 WGA nominations. Together with Game of Thrones executive producer Carolyn Strauss, she is currently working with HBO to develop a comedy series based on the novel Prep by Curtis Sittenfeld.

According to IMDB, Colleen McGuinness was born in Killeen, Texas on May 21, 1977. McGuinness, who is of Irish and Korean heritage, was raised by her grandparents on Long Island. Variety, in a 2004 article calling McGuinness a "tyro scribe," said that McGuinness had been a tennis champion in high school. Other early writing credits include story-editor work for prime-time soap opera North Shore and a staff writer position with Alicia Silverstone's "Miss Match."

McGuinness was hired by 30 Rock in 2012 and served as producer, co-producer, and writer during the show's final two seasons. She wrote two of the show's 2012 episodes: "My Whole Life Is Thunder" and "St. Patrick's Day."

After 30 Rock stopped production, McGuinness worked as a writer and supervising producer for About A Boy. When Tina Fey started her new production company Little Stranger productions, her first sale was an untitled comedy to be written by McCullough and executive-produced by Fey and by former 30 Rock showrunner Robert Carlock.

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• * From 2015 An actual article about Colleen McGuinness, in OZY Media. http://www.ozy.com/rising-stars/taking-on-tv-comedy-from-the-outside-in/65970 "For Colleen McGuinness, it’s an almost obligatory punch line to every introduction: joking about the cultural confusion her name can cause. “People expect a leprechaun to show up,” says the 38-year-old comedy writer, who in fact is half-Irish by descent, but favors her Korean mom. Growing up in suburban Long Island surrounded by a sea of blond friends made her an outsider — and damn funny. Funny enough to get writing gigs with 30 Rock, Love Bites and About a Boy, among other TV series, and to partner on projects backed by boldface names like Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. Now she’s leveraging lessons from her life story for a new show in development with ABC, The Homefront. Drawing on her own experience is a savvy move at a time when “outsider” comedies like Black-ish and Fresh Off the Boat — not to mention the gay couple on Modern Family — are bringing nontraditional stories set in suburban neighborhoods into view. It’s all part of a trend of embracing new perspectives on television, says Wenhong Chen, assistant professor of Radio-TV-Film at the University of Texas, one fueled by changes to TV distribution and new content providers like Netflix and Hulu..."Maybe it comes from writing for TV’s premier female comedy character, Tina Fey’s Liz Lemon, as McGuinness was part of a 30 Rock mafia that included Kay Cannon (screenwriter for the Pitch Perfect movies), Tracey Wigfield (The Mindy Project) and Donald Glover (Community)....

"McGuinness’ own ridiculously complicated backstory surely adds perspective. Her soldier father met her mom while he was stationed in Korea. The two split up, she went back to Korea and her father “didn’t know what to do with the kids,” she says. She ended up in New York with her grandfather and step-grandmother (she calls them her parents). Her dad was in and out of the picture, but eight years after last seeing her, he called wanting to visit her while she was pregnant with her (now born) son, James. Imagining her former Green Beret father with her baby in suburban LA switched on a lightbulb. “I realized — that’s the show,” she says, and The Homefront was born. The personal’s always been present in McGuinness’ work. Back when she wrote for NBC’s Mercy, Schilling remembers, McGuinness would call her to explain her thinking about a script, sharing family stories while discussing plot points. “There was an intimacy that popped up out of nowhere,” Schilling says. That’s true again as McGuinness, in a purple dress and nerdy glasses, chats with me on the plush sofa in her Los Angeles home. She talks about anything and everything, telling stories that almost always end with a punch line. Like the time she worked at a production company, Castle Rock. One morning, the phone rang and a crazy-sounding guy threatened to come to the office to shoot Rob Reiner over his politics. She called HR. “If the guy arrives,” she says she was told, “just buzz up and tell us ‘Fed Ex is here.’” Don’t worry, he added: They’d be sure to get the stars out of the building."

"Her life’s more valuable now to the entertainment gods, but that doesn’t mean every door’s open to her. The story of TV development is trying — and failing — a lot. So far, none of her projects in two years of development have panned out. In general, only a few scripts ever make it to pilots or series, so even while The Homefront is in development at ABC, she’s pitching another comedy series for cable. It’s a tricky business getting the sign-off on a show, TV producer and writer Kit Boss says, with networks weighing everything from cost to whether a program matches its brand to if it can get the right cast. If her outsider credentials don’t do the trick, McGuinness has maybe the ultimate insider trait to call upon: a Harvard degree, something not so rare in writing and pitch rooms across Hollywood. And there’s that 30 Rock pedigree. It’s almost Halloween the day we meet, and ex-boss Tina Fey has sent McGuinness’ new baby a costume — the Very Hungry Caterpillar. Maybe a mini-metaphor for her own career."

• Citing that article as ref name = ozy.

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• From IMDB http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1269432/ "Born: May 21, 1977 in Killeen, Texas, USA"
• From 2016: http://deadline.com/2016/06/hbo-prep-curtis-sittenfeld-novel-comedy-tv-series-1201777334/ "HBO has acquired the rights to Curtis Sittenfeld’s bestselling debut novel Prep. It will be developed as a comedy series by former 30 Rock writer-producer Colleen McGuinness and Game of Thrones executive producer Carolyn Strauss... McGuinness will write the comedy series adaptation and will executive produce. Former HBO programming chief-turned-producer Strauss also will serve as executive producer. McGuinness, who shared in 30 Rock’s 2013 best series Emmy nomination, as well as 2013 and 2014 WGA nominations, is a co-executive producer on the upcoming Nick Stoller/Francesca Delbanco comedy series for Netflix."

Sittenfeld, McGuinness and Strauss are repped by WME. McGuinness is also repped by Hansen Jacobson and Strauss by Jackoway Tyerman." Citing this article as refname=deadline2016

• From 2014: http://deadline.com/2014/10/ben-affleck-matt-damon-fox-comedy-colleen-mcguinness-864157/ Adding some quotes from this source: 30 Rock writer-producer Colleen McGuinness is having a big development season, selling a second high-profile project with A-list producers attached. Fox has put in development an untitled comedy from McGuinness, which is executive produced by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon. The single-camera half-hour comedy, which has a script commitment plus penalty, hails from Universal TV and Affleck and Damon’s Pearl Street Films. Written by McGuinnes, it centers on a 25-year-old woman who works at a frozen yogurt shop and whose life is going nowhere – until she discovers she is telekinetic. McGuinnes is executive producing with Affleck, Damon and Pearl Street’s Jennifer Todd. McGuinness, who was a writer on Seasons 6 and 7 of NBC’s Emmy-winning 30 Rock, also recently sold an untitled comedy to NBC, executive produced by 30 Rock showrunners Tina Fey and Robert Carlock. Last season,WME-repped McGuinnes was a supervising producer on Jason Katims’ About A Boy. WME-repped Pearl Street Films is currently producing a new season of the Emmy-nominated Project Greenlight for HBO and and is in pre-production on the feature Live By Night, based on the Dennis Lehane novel which Affleck is adapting, will star in and direct for 2015."
• From 2015: http://deadline.com/2015/10/homefront-family-comedy-todd-hollands-abc-1201568848/ "In his first development season as solo principal of Dark Toy Entertainment, Emmy-winning director-producer Todd Holland has set up single-camera half-hour comedy The Homefront at ABC. It hails from ABC Studios, where Dark Toy is under a deal. Written by Colleen McGuinness (30 Rock), The Homefront is described as “Everybody Loves Raymond meets American Sniper.” Loosely based on the life of McGuinness, whose father is a retired Green Beret, it centers on a retired Green Beret who comes back to the U.S. and moves near his grown daughter and grandkids, only to find that it’s easier to face death every day than to live in the suburbs. McGuinness will write the script and will executive produce with Holland, who is set to direct. At Dark Toy, the project is overseen by executive Jason Serota."
• Also from 2014, this one from Variety http://variety.com/2014/tv/news/fox-orders-comedy-script-produced-by-matt-damon-ben-affleck-1201341279/ "Fox has given a script order plus penalty for a comedy penned by”30 Rock” alum Colleen McGuinness. McGuinness has partnered with Pearl Street’s Matt Damon, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Todd to exec produce the untitled single-cam comedy set around the life of a 25-year-old frozen yogurt shop employee whose life is going nowhere — until she discovers that she is telekinetic. McGuinness previously worked as a writer and producer on “30 Rock,” and was a supervising producer on NBC’s “About A Boy.”"

" From 2013 http://deadline.com/2013/08/nbc-nabs-comedy-produced-by-30-rocks-tina-fey-robert-carlock-563615/ "WME-repped McGuinness joined 30 Rock during Season 6 and shared in the series’ WGA nomination earlier this year. Before that, she worked on NBC drama Mercy. In its last hurrah at the Emmys, 30 Rock, which wrapped its seven-year run in January, received 13 nominations, more than any other comedy, including for best comedy series."

• from 2004 when McGuinness was a "tyro scribe" http://variety.com/2004/film/markets-festivals/new-line-serves-laffer-1117907232/ "New Line Cinema has acquired “Baby Got Backhand” from tyro scribe Colleen McGuinness. The comedy is based on McGuinness’ experience as a Long Island high school tennis player who won a gold medal in the Empire State Games. McGuinness is a former assistant to New Line exec VP of production Richard Brener. She was previously a staff writer on Alicia Silverstone’s “Miss Match” for NBC and is a writer on Fox’s Hawaii-set drama “North Shore.”"

Atlas Obscura

I notice that founder Joshua Foer has his own article, but I think that Atlas Obscura also is notable on its own.

For example, the following news stories:

http://venturebeat.com/2015/02/27/atlas-obscura-raises-2m-to-become-a-national-geographic-for-millennials/

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/04/interview-david-plotz-atlas-obscura-discovery-places-travel

http://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323469804578525242552243284

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/24/business/media/slates-former-top-editor-takes-helm-at-travel-site.html?_r=0

Drafting some content:

Atlas Obscura is a travel website founded in 2009 by author Joshua Foer and documentary film-maker Dylan Thuras. It catalogs unusual and obscure travel destinations, and relies heavily on user-generated content.

Thuras and Foer met in 2007, and soon thereafter started discussing ideas for a different kind of atlas, featuring sites not commonly found in guidebooks.

Thuras says Atlas Obscura has an additional goal: "Creating a real-world community who are engaging with us, each other and these places and getting away from their computers to actually see them."

Atlas Obscura organizes frequent outings and one big annual international event known as Obscura Day.

Australian Grains Genebank

Somebody just deleted a link form the Svalbard gene bank article to Australian Grains Genebank. I thought I would start drafting it here, but now I see there is already a draft article in wiki at [[33]]

So I will go over there to work on it, taking with me the one reference I quickly found with a search:

Gina Ortiz Jones

She is a candidate for US House of Rep in Texas, one of 3 national candidates endorsed by DFA. I was looking for a Wikipedia article to learn more about her but there isn't one, yet. Here are some potential RS establishing her notability and details:

Texas Tribune 2017:

A graduate of John Jay High School in San Antonio, Jones attended Boston University on a ROTC scholarship and served in the Air Force from 2003-2006, deploying to Iraq. After a stint in the private sector, she went to work for the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency in 2008, ultimately becoming a special adviser to the deputy director. In November, she moved to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where she worked until June.

• March 2018 article in TeenVogue (!) https://www.teenvogue.com/story/gina-ortiz-jones-is-running-for-texass-23rd-district-in-march-6-texas-primary

  If Ortiz Jones, a former Air Force intelligence officer, ends up heading to Washington after the midterm elections, she would be breaking barriers as the first openly gay woman of color from Texas elected to Congress, as well as the first Iraq War veteran to represent Texas in Congress. She’d also be the first woman to represent Texas’s 23rd Congressional district.

• http://news.abs-cbn.com/opinions/02/09/18/opinion-gina-ortiz-jones-american-journey ABS-CBN

Also recent article

Winning a four-year Air Force ROTC scholarship from San Antonio’s John Jay High School sent Gina to Boston University for her BA & MA in Economics and a BA in East Asian Studies. Joined the US Air Force as an intelligence officer, deployed to Iraq under the US Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy. Active duty service was followed by a public service career in “national security, intelligence and defense” involving operations in Latin America and Africa. This included “advising on military operations supporting South Sudan’s independence referendum and serving in the Libyan Crisis Intelligence Unit. She also earned a graduate degree from the U.S. Army School of Advanced Military Studies.

• Time Magazine mention http://time.com/magazine/us/5107476/january-29th-2018-vol-191-no-3-u-s/ quotes her

  Gina Ortiz Jones, a former Air Force intelligence officer who is challenging Republican Representative Will Hurd in Texas’ overwhelmingly Hispanic 23rd Congressional District (which Clinton won), puts it this way: “I’m sure a lot of people are saying, ‘Look, I can do at least as sh-tty of a job as that guy.'”

• Local Texas paper interview https://bigbendgazette.com/2018/02/20/congressional-candidate-gina-ortiz-jones-gazette-interview/

  Gina Ortiz Jones graduated from Boston University and is a former Air Force intelligence officer. After serving in the Air Force, she worked in the Defense Intelligence Agency. She worked in the Office of the United States Trade Representative, during the Obama administration.

• Local account of March 6 primary run up https://www.texastribune.org/2018/02/23/texas-swing-district-sees-crowded-democratic-primary/

  Four Democrats are seriously vying for the seat in the March 6 primary: Judy Canales, a former Bill Clinton and Barack Obama appointee from Eagle Pass; Hulings, a former federal prosecutor from San Antonio; Gina Ortiz Jones, a former Air Force intelligence officer from San Antonio; and Rick Treviño, a former high school teacher from San Antonio who unsuccessfully ran for city council there before entering the TX-23 primary last year. A fifth Democrat, Angela "Angie" Villescaz, filed for the seat but does not appear to be running as active a campaign as the others.

• Salty and colorful speaker, focused and down to earth (my private opinion after reading quotes from her in some of these articles.
• Ballotpedia https://ballotpedia.org/Gina_Ortiz_Jones

  Congressional elections will take place in Texas in 2018. An open primary election took place on March 6, 2018.[3] A primary runoff election is on May 22, 2018.

• Emily's List https://www.emilyslist.org/candidates/gina-ortiz-jones

  Gina is a trailblazer, and she’s proud to be a candidate who is “openly gay, openly first generation, openly veteran, openly Asian-American, openly everything,” she has said. “Right now is not the time to be closeted or be ashamed of who you are or who you love.”

• Huffpo https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/gina-ortiz-jones-will-hurd-texas-2018_us_5a4c069ce4b0b0e5a7a94c48

Since moving back to San Antonio in June, Jones has been living in the house she grew up in. Most people in her community are minorities. Many are low-income. As she’s traveled around the district, she’s met people in border towns living in rank poverty. Some have no running water. Some have no paved roads. Jones said the experience has been a stark reminder of how badly Congress needs diverse voices ― and that now is the time for her to throw her hat in.

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Gina Ortiz Jones is an Iraq War veteran and former Air Force intelligence officer who returned from DC to her hometown of San Antonio, Texas to run as a Democrat against Republican Representative Will Hurd in Texas's 23rd congressional district.

Personal history

Ortiz Jones grew up in San Antonio, Texas as the daughter of a single mother born in the Philippines. Her mother worked menial jobs in the US, despite having graduate degrees in her native country. Ortiz Jones describes herself as "openly gay, openly first generation, openly veteran, openly Asian-American, openly everything.”

After winning a four-year Air Force ROTC scholarship while a student at San Antonio’s John Jay High School, she enrolled at Boston University, where she earned a BA & MA in Economics as well as a BA in East Asian Studies. After graduation, she joined the US Air Force as an intelligence officer, and deployed to Iraq under the US Military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.

The Texas Tribune, announcing Ortiz Jones's candidacy in August 2017, described her personal history as follows:

A graduate of John Jay High School in San Antonio, Jones attended Boston University on a ROTC scholarship and served in the Air Force from 2003-2006, deploying to Iraq. After a stint in the private sector, she went to work for the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency in 2008, ultimately becoming a special adviser to the deputy director. In November, she moved to the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where she worked until June.

Electoral history

In 2017, Ortiz Jones was the first Democrat to announce a challenge to "Republican Representative Will Hurd in Texas’ overwhelmingly Hispanic 23rd Congressional District (which Clinton won.)"

In the March 6, 2018 Democratic Primary, she faced a field of four other Democrats. Ortiz Jones captured 41% of the vote, with her closest Democratic rival Rick Treviño winning about 14%. Democrats will have a May 22, 2018 runoff election, pitting Ortiz Jones against Treviño, to determine which will be the Democratic candidate in the November 2018 election.

According to a recent article in Teen Vogue,

If Ortiz Jones, a former Air Force intelligence officer, ends up heading to Washington after the midterm elections, she would be breaking barriers as the first openly gay woman of color from Texas elected to Congress, as well as the first Iraq War veteran to represent Texas in Congress. She’d also be the first woman to represent Texas’s 23rd Congressional district.

Jaclyn Bradley Palmer (archiving Afd)

Jaclyn Bradley Palmer
Birth name	Jaclyn Bradley
Origin	Lorain, Ohio
Genres	folk, americana, singer-songwriter
Occupation(s)	Musician, singer-songwriter, music therapist, filmmaker
Instrument(s)	Vocals, guitar
Years active	2005–present
Website	www.jaclynbradleypalmer.com

Jaclyn Bradley Palmer (born Jaclyn Bradley) is an indie singer-songwriter and film producer from Lorain, Ohio. A contestant on the 8th season of The Voice of Holland., she is also a board-certified music therapist, specializing in surgical music therapy research.

She was chosen by Cleveland Magazine as one of the Most Interesting People of 2016.

Musical performance

After earning a degree in classical music from Indiana University in 2001, Palmer moved to New York City where she lived and wrote music for two years before moving to LA in 2003. She sang back-up for "Kid Rock protege" Ty Stone, "Walking Dead" director, Michael Satrazemis, and Gretchen Bonaduce.

She has appeared as a regular cast member on several television shows, namely The Voice of Holland and Vh1's "Breaking Bonaduce" (when she was Danny Bonaduce's personal assistant). She performed several of her original songs with Gretchen Bonaduce on "Breaking Bonaduce." Her music has also been on other television shows, including Bravo's "Rachel Zoe Project" and TLC's "King of the Crown. She also helped to create a 12-episode voice lesson series on the Time Warmer show, "Random Acts of Music." Since 2005, she has released three LP's and one EP.

The Voice of Holland

On November 17, 2017, Jaclyn became a contestant on The Voice of Holland (season 8), the television program that originated the American show, The Voice. She was successful with her audition as coach Sanne Hans also known in Holland as Miss Montreal turned around and claimed Jaclyn for her team. Jaclyn is the only American featured on season 8.

Film

In 2016, she produced and directed a documentary film Made of Gold: The Story of John Rozzano Jr. and the USS Indianapolis. Bradley grew up hearing about her grandmother's young brother who was lost at sea when his ship was torpedoed and sunk in 1945. She spent 10 years interviewing survivors to learn more about his death. The film "pays honor to Rozzano and all fallen military personnel who don’t make it home from battle." Rozzano now has a monument in Veteran's Park in Lorain. The film won an "Award of Excellence" in the category "Feature Documentary" at the Hollywood Independent Documentary Awards film festival in June 2016.

In 2017, her musical tribute to the victims of gun violence was an official selection at the 2017 Orlando Film Festival. In 2018, her film, "Love the Bodies We're In" was made official selection at the L.A. Dances with Film festival and premiered at the Chinese Theaters in Hollywood."

Music therapy

A board certified music therapist with a master's degree in music therapy, she studies the effect of music on surgery patients (MT-BC). Her research has been published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, AORN, and Music Therapy Perspectives. She conducted the largest music therapy study in history to employ the use of live music in the surgical arena.

Personal life

She currently lives in the Netherlands with her husband, Oliver, and their daughter. Their overseas move to Holland was chronicled on HGTV's House Hunters International in January 2017.

Discography

ALBUMS

Year	Album	Type	Location
2005	Bold	LP	US
2008	Hollywood be thy Name	LP	US
2016	The Dutch Sessions	LP	NL
2018	Be it Wild or Poetic	EP	NL

External links

• Official website
• Interview with Jaclyn Bradley Palmer - UnRated Magazine (January 2018)
• Interview with Jaclyn Bradley Palmer - Meaww (June 2018)

Categories: 1979 births, Living people, Musicians from Cleveland, American female singer-songwriters and more.

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