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At CT Bail Pro, we service the Hartford, CT area with bail bonds services and surety bonds. A surety bond is an agreement between you, the person jailed, our company and the court. We make sure that your loved one is released in an assurance that we'll get paid and the court trusts us enough to let it go at that. OK, it's a little more involved than that, and we'll break down the nuts and bolts in the next paragraph. You just need to worry about supplying us with the proper information we need, and we'll walk you through the rest of the surety bond process in Durham.
Surety Bond Specialists Near Me In Durham Connecticut
When you contact CT Bail Pro, Hartford, CT's premier bail bondsmen, you're going to hear a lot about surety bonds. So what exactly are surety bonds? A surety bond is a contract with at least three parties. One of the parties is the obligee (the person jailed). The second party is the principal (the person on the hook for the bond). And the third party is the surety (the bail bondsman or bail company). In a nutshell, a surety bond is where you will put up some assurance (money, collateral, security) so that the bail bonds company will guarantee the court that the bail is assured.
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Don't let the surety bond or bail bonds process in Durham CT 06422 stress you out. When a loved one is in jail and requires money for the bond, let us ease your mind. Call CT Bail Pro today at (860) 238-3806, and we'll do the rest. Financing and payment plans are available for any budget.
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Surety Bond for Bail
If you know someone who got apprehended in Durham for a specific reason, this information might be really beneficial. Regardless of being in trouble or not, the info you can learn here will always be useful if you or anyone you know will get detained.
If for some reason you get apprehended, you'll have to know more about bail and bond. That way, you will always understand what to do if a time comes that you will need this knowledge.
If you get sent to prison in Durham CT, you will remain there unless you pay bail. To tell you now, often, bail doesn't come cheap. If you can't pay for it, you can stay in jail up until your day of trial.
Surety Bond to Get Out of Your Jail Cell
You might think that waiting till the day of trial will just take a while. It more than likely will not. In fact, there are cases when individuals have to await years. If you cannot pay for bail, it's not the end of the world.
You also don't have to wait in prison. A surety bond can help you with another option. A surety bond to get out of your jail cell needs a few things though.
If you have all the requirements, there shouldn't be any problem. Likewise, you have to satisfy the bonds that you make. Otherwise, it may then be really hopeless for you.
The Requirements to Make an application for a Surety Bond
If you have a service, work or anything that should tie you to your community, that's good. It can suggest you have a low danger for flight. Not all can be a prospect for bail. The firm in Durham CT that can offer you support needs a couple of things.
The requirements to request a surety bond is something you need to make sure you have. First, you require something as collateral. For application and signing the contract, it can be a home, automobile or anything that can appreciable. You likewise need to show up on the day of your trial.
Otherwise, you will wind up in much deeper trouble. The party or company that helped you will apprehend you and bring you back to prison themselves. Since as the service partner for bond, they are accountable for you.
Learning More About Exactly what is a Surety Bond
Besides providing services for bail, there are lots of types of surety bonds. Today, bonding bail just happens in the United States and the Philippines.
Most nations disregard bail. Regardless, what a surety bond is ensuring the obligee that the principal will fulfill the terms of the agreement. Otherwise, the surety will provide insurance to the principal.
The definition can be as basic as having a 3rd party for insurance coverage. You can discover a guide on the internet to getting more information about exactly what is a surety bond if this isn't really enough for you.
Know that there is a program for you to get out of prison in an instant. An association can assist you out through a bail bond. Your state might have a different rate from others. If you're eligible for the service, just call a bail bondsman with a license.
It can take just minutes to settle an arrangement with a contractor. They can be the answers to your issue. A representative can be your indirect financial supplier to get you out.
Simply ensure to satisfy your bond with your professionals. Although a bond costs a little more, time is more vital than cash. Get a bail bondsman to help you out if you're having trouble with bail.


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Good news: we made it back from Mexico with no problem! Yay!
It was not one of those flawless trips though. I should have known something was up when we arrived in Mexico and had to wait about an hour an a half to go through immigration and customs. Two flights beat us at the landing the plane game, and those planes were the big double decker ones. Yup, a few hundred people waiting in line in front of us… and only 4 windows open. haha! We stayed at bio dad's house the first night we got there. The second day, we headed out to the grandparent house to celebrate "tanksgiving!". I will give it up to bio fam… they did it right! We had a full on turkey, stuffing, pumpkin pie, cranberries, gravy, mashed potatoes, and sweet potatoes. This is where it got a lil Mexican. The sweet potatoes were just mashed potatoes with marshmallows on top. Then it got really Mexican because we had a piñata! I am not sure if other families celebrating thanksgiving had a piñata, but we did, and in true piñata fashion, at least was person was accidentally hit with the stick. That person would be my 4 year old brother. He got excited because a lil bit of candy came out, but my cousin kept swinging.
We went home and rested up after the huge dinner because were gonna hit up my uncle's ranch. Now, I had never been to his ranch… this thing was humongous! We needed to use a four wheeler to get back and forth from the guest home to the party area. He had 12 horses, a pony, exotic birds, a rodeo stadium with stands. You name it, the ranch had it! This is also the place where Cason and I became the party ruiners. It is probably not our fault, but it happened. First night there, about 2 hours in… I fainted. Yup, I fainted in front of the entire bio fam. I was sitting next to Kinsey, we were all talking, and next thing I know… I woke up with every. single. person. around me. Not the best feeling ever. So that fun event ended things for the night. Now, I am supposed to go to the doctor again. I blame it on the travel, and on being too much of a fun guy.
Fast forward to the following day: big party, everyone having a good time, and Cason projectile vomiting all over the place. If it went into his mouth, it came out with extremely awesome force. He would puke, and keep on trying to play while smiling. Good times. Luckily, we had a doctor at the ranch with us: my grandpa. He gave us some direction. So bio dad and I went on an expedition to find a suppository and some pedialyte. This was the first time Cason got supper sick, and the first time I had to administer a suppository. Not the best feeling in the world having to put that thing in your own son. Doctor offered, but I felt that I needed to complete that duty. I wont go into much detail, but it got messy. We spoon fed him water and pedialyte, and he would return it to sender. That ended the party for us. We could have kept going because bio dad got us a nanny for the weekend to make sure we enjoyed ourselves, but Kinsey did not know how to let the nanny help. haha.
Not all was bad, we did get on some horses, and Kinsey did attempt to speak Spanish the entire time. Poor Kinsey would sit there while we talked with a fun look on her face. She wants to get Rosetta Stone again. So thats a nice lil Christmas gift hint. I also rode horses, even though I am afraid of them… but nothing compares to the fact that I drove in Mexico. WHAT?!?! Yup, I did. By far, the scariest experience EVER. My grandpa has bad eyes and bio dad asked if I would drive the car back from the ranch to Mexico City. Here are the rules in Mexico when it comes to driving:
1. Don't use your blinkers
2. you want to merge, dont bother if there is anyone there.
3. Honk for no reason.
4. drive while you straddle the traffic lines.
5. Here in the US my peeps tend to drive a bit slower… in Mexico, there is no speed limit, apparently. Theres one posted, nobody follows.
6. And please make sure to tailgate at a very dangerous distance.
There is my trip in a nutshell. Good times!

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Who will replace this man? |
Earlier this year I revealed that Len had signed a development deal with Clerkenwell Films to create an 18-part TV series based on all nine books in the 'Samson series' of novels by Len Deighton, which follow the fortunes of desk-bound spy Bernard Samson and his search to uncover the deeper truth about his wife's staged defection to East Germany in the early 1980s.
I've started re-reading the last three novels again and over the Christmas break I thought I'd break out the (bootleg) DVD of the original Granada TV adaption from 1988 of the original Game, Set and Match, of which Len's admitted he wasn't satisfied about some of the casting, hence it's non-repeating on TV. This got me thinking - who are the contemporay actors and actresses who'd make the best choices for the main roles. And I'd like blog readers to share their views too. Who knows? Clerkenwell's producers might read the post....
Primary roles in all nine 'Game, Set & Match' novels
- Bernard Samson
- Fiona Samson
- Bret Renselaer
- Werner Volkmann
- Zena Volkmann
- Dicky Cruyer
- Sir Henry Clevemore
- Silas Gaunt
- Erich Stinnes
- Pavel Moskvin
- George Kosinski
- Tessa Kosinski
- Lisl Hennig
- Bernard Samson - Damian Lewis or David Morrisey
- Fiona Samson - Gillian Anderson or Keeley Hawkes
- Bret Renselaer - Ted Danson
- Werner Volkmann - Sebastian Koch
- Zena Volkman - Franka Potente
- Dicky Cruyer - Dominic West
- Sir Henry Clevemore - Tom Wilkinson
- Silas Gaunt - Michael Gambon
- Erich Stinnes - Daniel Bruhl
- Pavel Moskvin - Philip Glenister or Jurgen Prochnow
- George Kosinski - Ray Winstone or Mark Strong
- Tessa Kosinski - Lena Headey or Sarah Alexander
- Lisl Hennig - Marita Breur


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Today, Sharon
Lynn Fisher's sci-fi romance GHOST PLANET
(Tor) is the selection for Felicia Day's Vaginal
Fantasy Hangout!
Actress-producer-writer Felicia Day
is a true geek and a reader of science fiction romance. In addition to her many credits,
she runs the Vaginal
Fantasy Hangout, a lively, entertaining, and
no-holds-barred online book club. Members include Veronica Belmont, Kiala
Kazebee and Bonnie Burton. The VFH team is sassy, outspoken, and passionate
about books.
The GHOST
PLANET video discussion will go live on April 30, 2013 at 8 PM PST.
Want to know more? Visit the main Vaginal
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can access all of the Vaginal Fantasy videos here, including ones featuring science
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world in peril. A bond deeper than love.
Psychologist Elizabeth Cole prepared for the worst when she accepted a job on a newly discovered world - a world where every colonist is tethered to an alien who manifests in the form of a dead loved one. But she never expected she'd struggle with the requirement to shun these "ghosts." She never expected to be so attracted to the charming Irishman assigned as her supervisor. And she certainly never expected to discover she died in a transport crash en route to the planet.
Reincarnated as a ghost, Elizabeth is symbiotically linked to her supervisor, Murphy - creator of the Ghost Protocol, which forbids him to acknowledge or interact with her. Confused and alone - oppressed by her ghost status and tormented by forbidden love - Elizabeth works to unlock the secrets of her own existence.
But her quest for answers lands her in a tug-of-war between powerful interests, and she soon finds herself a pawn in the struggle for control of the planet…a struggle that could separate her forever from the man she loves.
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Vernier Software & Technology Announces Wireless Sensors for Science and STEM Education
Wireless Sensors Provide Innovative Technology for Student Instruction Using iPad and Other Mobile Devices
BEAVERTON, Oregon, January 7, 2014 – Building upon its award-winning collection of data-collection technologies for STEM education, Vernier Software & Technology is changing the way students collect scientific data during classroom investigations with the launch of two new wireless sensor families: Go WirelessTM sensors and NODE+ wireless sensors. Go Wireless Temp, the first in a family of wireless sensors designed and engineered by Vernier, collects temperature data when used with an iOS device. Vernier will also carry NODE+ wireless sensors, which are compatible with Graphical AnalysisTM for iPad® and a collection of iOS and AndroidTM apps from Variable, Inc.
"Years ago, we could only dream of sensor technology that was both wireless and affordable for education," said David Vernier, co-founder of Vernier and a former physics teacher. "Today, advances in technology have made it possible for our engineers to design Go Wireless Temp, a temperature sensor that communicates with devices such as iPad, iPod touch®, or Vernier LabQuest® 2."
Go Wireless Temp is a rugged, stainless-steel temperature sensor. Its durability, temperature range and wireless capability make it ideal for a variety of classroom experiments using iOS devices. The new sensor allows students to explore temperature in the environment and in systems such as fish tanks, greenhouses, thermal mugs, or heating and cooling devices.
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Vernier has also partnered with Variable, Inc., to offer NODE+ wireless sensors. Educators can use NODE+ with Graphical Analysis for iPad and a variety of apps from Variable, Inc. These innovative, wireless sensors allow students to explore concepts in topics such as Earth science, environmental science and physical science using mobile devices. Sensor modules for temperature, light, relative humidity, and more are available from Vernier.
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Network Working Group D. Crocker
Request for Comments: 645 UCLA-NMC
Obsolets: 615 (NIC: 21531)
Network Standard Data Specification Syntax
This document defines the basic components of a Network Standard Data
Specification (NSDS) syntax. A NSDS is intended to provide a
mechanism for specifying all the attributes of a collection of bits.
The definition of a complete NSDS syntax is expected to require an
extended effort. Therefore the initial scope of this document has
been constrained to provide only a basic syntactic environment.
In order to demonstrate a specific use for the NSDS, this document
also provides the complete syntax for specifying the PATHNAME
attributes of a collection of bits, to the level of a file. Addition
of new subparamters should not be difficult.
In this context, "pathname" referes to that information which
specifies the LOCATION of a collection of bits.
The pathname syntax is essentially the same as that proposed in
RFC 615 (NIC -- 21531,). Modifications were made in order to
allow for graceful addition of other file attributes and to
optimize use by humans and by processes.
I would like to thank Jon Postel, Jerry Popek, Vint Cerf, Jim White,
Charlie Kline, Buz Owen, Ken Pogran, Jerry Burchfiel and Tom Boynton
for their suggestions.
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RFC 645 Network Standard Data Specification Syntax June 1974 HUMAN AND MACHINE FACTORS Since computers tend to prefer more highly structured envireonments than do humans, aspects of the NSDS syntax are permitted to be different for computers than they are for humans. Specifically: For computers (highly-structured mode), keyword fields are fixed length and the variable-length data subfields are prefaced by a byte count. Additionally in highly structured mode, the possible contents of data subfields may be more constrained than for the semi-structured mode. For humans (semi-structured mode), keyword subfields are variable length and data subfields are surrounded by delimeter characters. A keyword must be long enough to distinguish it from other keywords. That is, partial-name specification is permitted. STRUCTURE OF THE GENERAL SYNTACTIC ENVIRONMENT Overview: A NSDS is prefaced by one or two percent signs, followed by a set of fields subject to context-free interpretation, and terminated with a space. Pathname fields precede any other file attribute specifications. The BNF: <NSDS> ::= <flag> <path> <otherstuff> <sp> <flag> ::= % / %% <path> ::= pathname fields, as described below. <otherstuff> ::= fields for specifying data storage and accesss characteristics, to be defined later. <sp> ::= space. Crocker [Page 2]
RFC 645 Network Standard Data Specification Syntax June 1974 Comments: The <flag> indicates escape-tp-NSDS-syntax. One percent sign indicates semi-structured syntax, two indicate that highly-structured syntax is being used. Only <flag> must be considered in relation to any host's current syntax. It is not currently known to conflict with any host's syntax. Exclamation mark (!) is the only other character that seems permissible (on the assumption that the character should be a graphic). Its use would cause minor problems at Multics; but more importantly as a graphic, it is too similar to the numeral "1". The basic (highest-level) syntax for individual <path> and <otherstuff> fields is the same, as defined below. The remaining lower-level syntax (including permissible keywords and data subfield contents) for <otherstuff> fields is left for later. BASIC UNITS OF SUBSTRUCTURE Overview: A semi-structured field begins with a varying-length descriptor. The descriptor is followed by a varying-length data subfield, which is surrounded by delimeter characters. Highly-structured fields have fixed-length descriptors, followed by a data byte-count, followed by the data BNF for individual fields: <field> ::= <machine> / <human> <machine> ::= <stru-field> / <stru-field> <machine> <stru-field> ::= <stru-key> <count> <data> <stru-key> ::= 4-character field definition keyword; see below. <count> ::= one-byte binary count of number of bytes of <data>. <human> ::= <h-field> / <h-field> <human> Crocker [Page 3]
RFC 645 Network Standard Data Specification Syntax June 1974 <h-field> ::= <h-key> <h-rest> <h-key> ::= Variable-length field definition keyword; see below. <h-rest> ::= <l-delim> <data> <r-delim> / <l-delim> <data> <r-delim> <h-rest> <l-delim> ::= any non-alphabetic printable character that is not in the succeeding <data> subfield and that is acceptable to the object site. For visual aesthetics and to facilitate human parsing, anything <l-delim> is a left-bracket character (<, [, (, -), <r-delim> must be the complementary right-bracket character (>, ], ), |). <r-delim> ::= either 1) the same character as <l-delim> or 2) if the <l-delim> character is a left-bracket character (<, [, (, -) then its complementary right-bracket (>, ], ), |). <data> ::= any sequence of characters acceptable to the object site. This is the actual data subfield with the file, directory, device (or whatever) attribute value. Elaboration: Case is irrelevant to the syntax, though some sites will care about case in <data> subfields. They key (<stru-key> or <h-key>) indicates what part of the NSDS the next <data> subfield refers to. <R-delim> amd <l-delim> are used to delimit the beginning and end of the <data> subfield. <Fields> for pathnames ARE order dependent, but defaulted ones may be omitted. The order is as indicated for <key>s, below. That is, Network, Host, ... Siteparm. Keywords are used, even though pathname attributes are ordered, to facilitate the addition of new fields and to be consistent with the syntax for <otherstuff> fields which are expected to be unordered. Crocker [Page 4]
RFC 645 Network Standard Data Specification Syntax June 1974 <Field>s or <h-rest> subfields may be repeated, as permitted by the object site. A series of <h-rest> subfields, without any <h-key> subfields is interpreted as a series of <h-field>s with identical <key>s. Also, note that since the syntax does not constrain the contents of <data> subfields, compound names within a single <data> subfield are allowed. The delimeter used to separate names within a <data> subfield must be different from <l-delim>/<r-delim> and the same as that used at the object site, since that is the only site which will be able to interpret the <data> subfield. The validity of any combinations of <field>s is entirely site- dependent. For example, if a site will accept it, an NSDS with a Host field, and nothing more, may be permissible. The validity of <data> subfields' contents is generally site- dependent. Some exceptions are noted below. PATHNAME ATTRIBUTES AND VALUES The basic syntax does not need to be altered, to create the ability to specify pathnames. Only <key> values need to be defined. Definitions of Pathname <key>s: They keyword for semi-structured mode is given first, followed by the keyword for highly-structured mode, if different. For highly-structured mode, keywords that are less than four characters should be padded with blanks at the right. Semi Highly Meaning NETWORK NET Reference to the network (e.g., ARPA) connected to the HOST that contains or will contain the collection of bits. HOST Reference to host machine that contains or will contain the collection of bits. Also see section on "Numbers". PERIPHERAL PERI Peripheral device being referred to. VOLUME ID VOL The volume (e.g., specific tape reel or disk pack) associated with the named peripheral device. Crocker [Page 5]
RFC 645 Network Standard Data Specification Syntax June 1974 DIRECTORY DIR Name of directory which contains a pointer to the entity (directory or filename) specified in the following <field>. FILE Basic name of the file (data set). TYPE Optional modifier to the filename. (Tenex calls it the Extension.) VERSION VER Optional third party to basic filename. Usually used to distibguish updated files. The <data> subfield will usually contain a number. SITEPARM SITE A parameter, such as an access specification or account number, peculiar to the object site. The contents of the <data> subfield must serve to identify what Siteparm is involved. Each site will be responsible for defining the syntax of Siteparm <data> subfields it will accept. Note that the SITEPARM field allows specification of other than pathname data (e.g., access and account number). Some reserved PERIPHERAL <data>s: The alternate forms are merely for typing convenience and are not related to the semi/highly structure modes. DISK or DSK: Immediate, direct-access secondary storage. ONLINE or ONL: Whatever immediately-accessible (measured in fractions of a second) storage the user accesses by default; usually disk. TAPE or TAP: Industry-compatible magnetic tape. TAPE7 or TP7: 7-Track industry compatible tape. TAPE9 or TP9: 9-Track industry compatible tape. DECTAPE or DEC: DEC Tape. Crocker [Page 6]
RFC 645 Network Standard Data Specification Syntax June 1974 OFFLINE or OFF: Any tertiary storage; usually tape, though "devices" like the Datacomputer are permissible. The user should expect to wait minutes or hours before being able to access OFFLINE files. LINE PRINTER or LPT: Any available line-printer. DOCUMENT PRINTER or DOC: Upper/lower case line printer, preferably with 8 1/2" X 11" unlined paper. PAPER TAPE READER or PTR: Paper tape reader. PAPER TAPE PUNCH or PTP: Paper tape punch. CARD PUNCH or PUN: Standard 80-column card punch. CARD READER or RDR: Standard 80-column card reader. OPERATOR or OPR: System Operator's console. CONSULTANT or CON: On-line consultant. DEFAULTS FOR PATHNAME <DATA> SUBFIELDS: Often, the appropriate default will be the last-used value. However, defaults will generally be context dependent. Consequently, the following defaults are offered only as guidelines: Network: ARPA. Host: The host interpreting the NSDS. Peripheral: ONLINE (DISK). Volume id: Catalogued system space. Directory: The user's current "working" directory, usually set by the logon process. Filename: None. Type: None. Siteparm: None. Crocker [Page 7]
RFC 645 Network Standard Data Specification Syntax June 1974 NUMBERS The following scheme is recommended for specifying numbers in <h- field> data subfields: A sequence of numberic characters, optionally followed by a character indicating the radix. The default radix is ten. "H" indicates hexadecimal; "O" (oh) indicates octal; "B" indicates binary; and (gratuitously) "D" indicates decimal. In <stru-field> data subfields, the number should be pure binary. Therefore, reference to a host on the Arpanet would require one 8-bit byte. GENERAL COMMENTS The syntax is intended to be adequate for all hosts, so any given portion of it may be inappropriate for any given host. A site is expected to permit specifications in a given field if that site already has a way of accepting the same information. Having two modes of specification (highly- and semi-structured) may prove to be unnecessary. They are defined here merely as a convenience for experimentation. I believe that modifications to the syntax will be graceful additions, rather than wholesale redesign, and thus can be deferred for a while. Currently, any undefined attributes must be specified in a Siteparm field. The first version of the syntax was a mix of Tenex and Multics conventions. That is: (Network)[Host]Peripheral:Directory>Filename.Type;Sireparm Through visually more attractive and generally quicker to type, it lacks extensibility. For example, adding a version number as a standard field would be difficult. It is asserted (conceded) that, as long as extensibility is kept as a design goal, no standardized [semi-structured] syntax will be as pleasant to use as currently exists on some systems. Crocker [Page 8]
RFC 645 Network Standard Data Specification Syntax June 1974
Pathnames in NSDS that occupy more than one line, below, do so only
because they are too long for a single line. Bracketed numbers
(e.g., <8>) indicate a single byte with the number as its decimal
value. Blanks (spaces) are indicated by <sp>.
My message file at ISI (<DCROCKER>MESSAGE.TXT;P770404):
ARP061.LAD.DOCUMENT at UCLA-CCN. (Note the use of multiple Directory
>udd>CompNet>Map>Mail at Mit-Multics. (Note that the initial NSDS
Directory <data> subfield is empty, in keeping with Multics' method
of starting at the top of its directory structure):
[ This RFC was put into machine readable form for entry ]
[ into the online RFC archives by Alan Ford 12/99]
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(AP) – Major League Baseball is going to build it — and the White Sox and Yankees are coming to Iowa.
The Chicago White Sox will play the New York Yankees next summer at the site in eastern Iowa where the movie "Field of Dreams" was filmed, MLB announced Thursday. The game is set for Aug. 13 in Dyersville, which is about 200 miles west of Chicago.
A temporary 8,000-seat stadium will be built on the site to accommodate the first major league game played in Iowa.
"As a sport that is proud of its history linking generations, Major League Baseball is excited to bring a regular-season game to the site of 'Field of Dreams,'" Commissioner Rob Manfred said. "We look forward to celebrating the movie's enduring message of how baseball brings people together at this special cornfield in Iowa."
A video tweeted by MLB shows Yankees star Aaron Judge asking Ray Kinsella, Kevin Costner's character in the 1989 movie, if he was in heaven. Costner replies with one of the movie's iconic lines — "No, it's Iowa" — and Judge nods before trotting back into the corn beyond the outfield.
A pathway is being built through a cornfield that will take fans to the stadium. It will overlook the site where Costner's character carved a ballpark out of a field after a mysterious voice told him, "If you build it, he will come."
The right field wall will be broken up by windows to show the cornstalks beyond the wall, and the ballpark's design will honor old Comiskey Park, home of the White Sox from 1910-1990.
"'Field of Dreams' is an iconic, generational baseball story built upon a deep love of the game that transcends even the most impossible of circumstances. The filmmakers tell a beautiful story that resonates to this day," White Sox chairman Jerry Reinsdorf said.
The one-off game in Iowa is part of the sport's recent trend of hosting games outside of traditional ballparks and cities, such as the Little League Classic in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, and a matchup between Detroit and Kansas City in Omaha in June ahead of the College World Series.
The Yankees also took part in a two-game series in London against the rival Red Sox earlier this season.
The White Sox will be the home team for the game, which will be played on a Thursday and air nationally on Fox. The clubs will then have Friday off before resuming their series in Chicago.


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Every season, the Next Big Idea Club editorial staff reviews dozens of upcoming books to identify the most exciting, must-read nonfiction titles. We start with a broad pool of nominees, and then share them with our curators—Adam Grant, Susan Cain, Daniel Pink, and Malcolm Gladwell—to identify a small handful finalists and, ultimately, two official season selections.
Today, we're excited to share our list of nominees for Fall 2021. Neither our staff nor our curators have read each and every title below, but we believe that the two best nonfiction books of the season are among them. So if you're looking for some exciting new reading, the nominees are…
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
By Kai-Fu Lee and Chen Qiufan
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
In this provocative, utterly original work, Kai-Fu Lee, the former president of Google China and bestselling author of AI Superpowers, teams up with celebrated novelist Chen Qiufan to imagine our world in 2041 and how it will be shaped by AI. View on Amazon
The Awakened Brain: The New Science of Spirituality and Our Quest for an Inspired Life
By Dr. Lisa Miller
Publication Date: August 17, 2021
A groundbreaking exploration of the neuroscience of spirituality and a bold new paradigm for health, healing, and resilience—from a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning researcher. View on Amazon
Beasts Before Us: The Untold Story of Mammal Origins and Evolution
By Elsa Panciroli
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
The story of our most ancient of ancestors: mammals. This book reframes the narrative of mammal evolution, and proves they weren't just precursors—they were pioneers. View on Amazon
Beyond Collaboration Overload: How to Work Smarter, Get Ahead, and Restore Your Well-Being
By Rob Cross
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
A plan for conquering collaborative overload to drive performance and innovation, reduce burnout, and enhance well-being. View on Amazon
Beyond Happiness: How Authentic Leaders Prioritize Purpose and People for Growth and Impact
By Jenn Lim
Publication Date: October 12, 2021
The co-founder and CEO of Delivering Happiness updates the Delivering Happiness model for our new abnormal, showing organizations of every kind how to cultivate a culture that can adapt to change, be highly profitable, and support all its people. View on Amazon
Built to Belong: Discovering the Power of Community Over Competition
By Natalie Franke
Publication Date: August 24, 2021
This fresh, inspiring call to community and connection from an entrepreneur and leader is perfect for anyone feeling alone and ready to set off on a journey to true belonging. View on Amazon
Business Doing Good: Engaging Women and Elevating Communities
By Shannon Deer and Cheryl Miller
Publication Date: August 15, 2021
Business Doing Good outlines six principles that business leaders can implement to hire women who have experienced incarceration, poverty, addiction, and/or engagement in the sex trade. If we are going to end poverty and create economic development, women who have overcome challenging pasts cannot be excluded. View on Amazon
Change Enthusiasm: How to Harness the Power of Emotion for Leadership and Success
By Cassandra Worthy
Publication Date: August 3, 2021
Dynamic corporate speaker and coach Cassandra Worthy introduces a growth mindset practice that helps readers to view change and the emotions surrounding it as a gift. View on Amazon
Choose Possibility: Take Risks and Thrive (Even When You Fail)
By Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Publication Date: August 17, 2021
An indispensable guide to decision-making and risk-taking for anyone who finds themselves afraid of making a wrong choice in their career, from one of the most highly regarded female tech executives in Silicon Valley. View on Amazon
The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power
By Max Chafkin
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
A biography of venture capitalist and entrepreneur Peter Thiel, the enigmatic, controversial, and hugely influential power broker who sits at the dynamic intersection of tech, business, and politics. View on Amazon
Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favors the Brave
By Ryan Holiday
Publication Date: September 28, 2021
Through engaging stories about historic and contemporary leaders, including Charles De Gaulle, Florence Nightingale, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Holiday shows you how to conquer fear and practice courage in your daily life. View on Amazon
Creative Acts for Curious People: How to Think, Create, and Lead in Unconventional Ways
By Sarah Stein Greenberg
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
From the Executive Director of Stanford's acclaimed school of design, Creative Acts for Curious People is filled with memorable stories, ideas, and more than eighty innovative exercises that focus on the art of learning, discovery, and leading the way through unknown creative territory. View on Amazon
Credible: Why We Doubt Accusers and Protect Abusers
By Deborah Tuerkheimer
Publication Date: September 28, 2021
Drawing on case studies, moving first-hand accounts, science, and the law, Tuerkheimer guides us toward accurate credibility judgments and equitable treatment of those whose suffering has long been disregarded or dismissed. View on Amazon
Dancing on Ropes: Translators and the Balance of History
By Anna Aslanyan
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
An entertaining and surprising look at world history events to reveal the consequences of decisions taken by translators. View on Amazon
Disruption Proof: Empower People, Create Value, Drive Change
By Brant Cooper
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
CEO and bestselling author Brant Cooper teaches leaders how to ensure their organizations are resilient, agile, and dynamic enough to endure long-term, weathering the storms of disruption and uncertainty. View on Amazon
The Elements of Choice: Why the Way We Decide Matters
By Eric J. Johnson
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
A guide to the inner workings of how decisions are made—and an essential toolkit for helping others make decisions better. View on Amazon
Elevating the Human Experience: Three Paths to Love and Worth at Work
By Amelia Dunlop
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
With equal parts courage and insight, Amelia Dunlop tells her story of what it means to discover her own sense of love and worth in her twenty-year career as a management consultant at the world's largest professional services firm. View on Amazon
The End of Bias: A Beginning: The Science and Practice of Overcoming Unconscious Bias
By Jessica Nordell
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
The End of Bias is a transformative, groundbreaking exploration into how we can eradicate unintentional bias and discrimination, the great challenge of our age. View on Amazon
Everyday Vitality: Turning Stress into Strength
By Samantha Boardman
Publication Date: August 10, 2021
Drawing from scientific research and her own clinical experience, psychiatrist Samantha Boardman shares strategies for cultivating vitality—the positive feeling of aliveness and energy that lies at the core of well-being and at the heart of a good day. View on Amazon
The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics, and Society
By Azeem Azhar
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
A bold exploration and call-to-arms over the widening gap between AI, automation, and big data―and our ability to deal with its effect. View on Amazon
The Family Firm : A Data-Driven Guide to Better Decision Making in the Early School Years
By Emily Oster
Publication Date: August 3, 2021
In The Family Firm, Brown professor of economics and mom of two Emily Oster offers a classic business school framework for data-driven parents to think more deliberately about the key issues of the elementary years: school, health, extracurricular activities, and more. View on Amazon
Feeling & Knowing: Making Minds Conscious
By Antonio Damasio
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
Damasio helps us understand the relationship between consciousness and the mind, why being conscious is not the same as either being awake or sensing, the central role of feeling, and why the brain is essential for the development of consciousness. View on Amazon
Flux: 8 Superpowers for Thriving in Constant Change
By April Rinne
Publication Date: August 24, 2021
Discover eight powerful mindset shifts that enable leaders and those they lead to adapt and thrive in a time of unprecedented change and uncertainty. View on Amazon
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
By Oliver Burkeman
Publication Date: August 10, 2021
Acclaimed Guardian writer Oliver Burkeman offers a lively, entertaining, philosophical guide to time and time management, setting aside superficial efficiency solutions in favor of reckoning with and finding joy in the finitude of human life. View on Amazon
Go Where There Is No Path: Stories of Hustle, Grit, Scholarship, and Faith
By Christopher Gray
Publication Date: August 3, 2021
For all who dare to go off the beaten track, this is the inspirational, power-packed playbook for transforming your life and your world—from a young, Black social entrepreneur whose dorm-room tech startup has helped millions pay for college and access unprecedented opportunity. View on Amazon
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning
By Meghan O'Gieblyn
Publication Date: August 24, 2021
The inexorable rise of technology—with artificial intelligences that surpass our comprehension and control—and the spread of digital metaphors for self-understanding mean that the core questions of existence—identity, knowledge, the very nature and purpose of life itself—urgently require rethinking. View on Amazon
Going There: A Memoir
By Katie Couric
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
From an award-winning American journalist and bestselling author comes a tell-all memoir about breaking boundaries, persevering, and witnessing the reckoning in media. View on Amazon
The Gold Standard: Giving Your Customers What They Didn't Know They Wanted
By Colin Cowie
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Learn how to cultivate the most incredible customer experiences on Earth through this essential guide by Colin Cowie, distinguished purveyor of unforgettable "wow" events for the world's most demanding clients. View on Amazon
Good Anxiety: Harnessing the Power of the Most Misunderstood Emotion
By Wendy Suzuki
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
World-renowned neuroscientist and author of Healthy Brain, Happy Life explains how to harness the power of anxiety into unexpected gifts. View on Amazon
How God Works: The Science Behind the Benefits of Religion
By David DeSteno
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
Pioneering psychology professor David DeSteno demonstrates why religious practices and rituals are so beneficial to those who follow them—and to anyone, regardless of their faith (or lack thereof). View on Amazon
How to Be an Ally: Actions You Can Take for a Stronger, Happier Workplace
By Melinda Briana Epler
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
Uniquely insightful and extremely timely, How to Be an Ally humanizes diversity and inclusion and facilitates greater empathy and understanding between people of all identities. It teaches us that every individual can learn about the imbalance in opportunity and work to correct it. View on Amazon
How to Talk to a Science Denier: Conversations with Flat Earthers, Climate Deniers, and Others Who Defy Reason
By Lee McIntyre
Publication Date: August 17, 2021
Researcher Lee McIntyre explores how we can most effectively get through to those who distrust science, while avoiding the conversational traps of fact-flinging and condescension. View on Amazon
Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking
By Michael Bhaskar
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
Why has the flow of big, world-changing ideas slowed down? A provocative look at what happens next at the frontiers of human knowledge. View on Amazon
The Human Element: Overcoming the Resistance that Awaits New Ideas
By Loran Nordgren and David Schonthal
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
Readers will come to understand the unexpected reasons why the ideas and initiatives they are most passionate about get rejected. Readers also will learn how to identify and disarm these forces of resistance, and discover how the frictions that hold us back can be transformed into catalysts for change. View on Amazon
I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent
By Blythe Grossberg
Publication Date: August 17, 2021
A captivating memoir about tutoring for Manhattan's elite, revealing how a life of extreme wealth both helps and harms the children of the one percent. View on Amazon
Impact Players: How to Take the Lead, Play Bigger, and Multiply Your Impact
By Liz Wiseman
Publication Date: October 19, 2021
Why do some people break through and make an impact while others get stuck going through the motions? Liz Wiseman reveals the secrets of these stellar professionals who play the game at a higher level. View on Amazon
Lead: How Women in Charge Claim Their Authority
By Ellen M. Snee
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
Lead draws on Dr. Snee's groundbreaking research on women's leadership development, her coaching and consulting work to advance talented women, and her earlier life as a Catholic nun. View on Amazon
The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Age of Fentanyl and Meth
By Sam Quinones
Publication Date: October 12, 2021
From the bestselling author of Dreamland, a searing follow-up that explores fentanyl and the quiet yet groundbreaking steps that communities are taking to end the opioid crisis nationwide. View on Amazon
Let Them Lead: Unexpected Lessons in Leadership from America's Worst High School Hockey Team
By John U. Bacon
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
An uplifting leadership book about a coach who helped transform the nation's worst high school hockey team into one of the best. Bacon's strategy is straightforward: set high expectations, make them accountable to each other, and inspire them all to lead their team. View on Amazon
The Life-Changing Science of Detecting Bullshit
By John V. Petrocelli
Publication Date: July 27, 2021
Expanding upon his viral TEDx Talk, psychology professor and social scientist John V. Petrocelli reveals the critical thinking habits you can develop to recognize and combat pervasive false information and delusional thinking that has become a common feature of everyday life. View on Amazon
The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
By Dorie Clark
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
Clark shares unique principles, frameworks, and her own experiences to show how you can leverage the same 24 hours everyone has to break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and transform your life and career. View on Amazon
Masters of Scale: Surprising Truths from the World's Most Successful Entrepreneurs
By Reid Hoffman, with June Cohen and Deron Triff
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
What can you learn from a Silicon Valley legend and a pantheon of iconic leaders? The key to scaling a successful business isn't talent, network, or strategy. It's an entrepreneurial mindset—and that mindset can be cultivated. View on Amazon
A Minute to Think: Reclaim Creativity, Conquer Busyness, and Do Your Best Work
By Juliet Funt
Publication Date: August 3, 2o21
An efficiency expert explains how to liberate your talent, reduce waste, and help teams do more meaningful work by incorporating strategic pauses—what she calls "white space"—into your workdays and personal life. View on Amazon
Move: The Forces Uprooting Us
By Parag Khanna
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
A compelling look at the powerful global forces that will cause billions of us to move geographically over the next decades, ushering in an era of radical change. View on Amazon
My Life in Full: Work, Family, and Our Future
By Indra Nooyi
Publication Date: September 28, 2021
An intimate and powerful memoir by the trailblazing former CEO of PepsiCo. View on Amazon
Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take
By Paul Polman and Andrew Winston
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
Runaway climate change and persistent inequality are ravaging the world and humanity. Who can help lead us to a better future? Business. View on Amazon
No Cure for Being Human: (And Other Truths I Need to Hear)
By Kate Bowler
Publication Date: September 28, 2021
The bestselling author of Everything Happens for a Reason (And Other Lies I've Loved) asks, how do you move forward with a life you didn't choose? View on Amazon
Nudge: The Final Edition
By Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
An essential new edition―revised and updated from cover to cover―of one of the most important books of the last two decades, by Nobel Prize winner Richard H. Thaler and Harvard University's Cass R. Sunstein. View on Amazon
The Oracle of Night: The History and Science of Dreams
By Sidarta Ribeiro
Publication Date: August 17, 2021
A groundbreaking history of the human mind told through our experience of dreams—from the earliest accounts to current scientific findings—and the essential role of dreams in the formation of who we are and the world we have made. View on Amazon
Our Biggest Experiment: A History of the Climate Crisis
By Alice Bell
Publication Date: July 8, 2021
Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the defining story of our age: the climate crisis. View on Amazon
The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women
By Anushay Hossain
Publication Date: October 12, 2021
Reflecting on her own pregnancy experience—including nearly dying in labor—author and policy analyst Anushay Hossain explores women's relationship with and treatment by the U.S. health care system. View on Amazon
Play Nice but Win: A CEO's Journey from Founder to Leader
By Michael Dell
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
From Michael Dell, renowned founder and chief executive of one of America's largest technology companies, the inside story of the battles that defined him as a leader. View on Amazon
The Pop-up Pitch: The Two-Hour Creative Sprint to the Most Persuasive Presentation of Your Life
By Dan Roam
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
The Pop-up Pitch weaves together the latest insights on visual cognition, behavioral economics, and classic story structures in an easy-to-learn and inspiring storytelling algorithm. View on Amazon
Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business
By Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
Publication Date: August 31, 2021
Battilana and Casciaro offer a timely, democratized vision of power. While hierarchies tend to stay in place, by agitating, innovating, and orchestrating change, those with less power can challenge established structures to make them more balanced. View on Amazon
The Power of Us: Harnessing Our Shared Identities to Improve Performance, Increase Cooperation, and Promote Social Harmony
By Jay J. Van Bavel and Dominic J. Packer
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
A revolutionary new understanding of identity, showing how our groups have a powerful influence on our feelings, beliefs, and behavior—and how these shared identities can inspire both personal change and social movements. View on Amazon
The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds—Not Crushes—Your Soul
By Brad Stulberg
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Bestselling author Brad Stulberg shares a healthier, more sustainable model for success. At the heart of this model is groundedness, a practice that values presence over rote productivity, accepts that progress is nonlinear, and prioritizes long-term values and fulfillment over short-term gain. View on Amazon
Provoke: How Leaders Shape the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws
By Steven Goldbach and Geoff Tuff
Publication Date: September 15, 2021
The authors show how the best leaders don't simply "respond" to trends and wait for the future to arrive—they provoke it. View on Amazon
Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
By Steven Pinker
Publication Date: September 28, 2021
A primer in logical thinking and an entertaining expedition through all the trapdoors we can tumble through when we try to parse reality or bend it to our will. View on Amazon
Reset: A Leader's Guide to Work in an Age of Upheaval
By Johnny C. Taylor, Jr.
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
From the CEO and President of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) comes the ultimate book on transforming the way we select, retain, and train our employees in a radically changed business environment. View on Amazon
Right Within: How to Heal from Racial Trauma in the Workplace
By Minda Harts
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
From the powerhouse author of The Memo, the essential self-help book for women of color to heal—and thrive—in the workplace. View on Amazon
Risk: A User's Guide
By Stanley McChrystal, with Anna Butrico
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
From the bestselling author of Team of Teams and My Share of the Task, an entirely new way to understand risk and master the unknown. View on Amazon
Roar: Into the Second Half of Your Life (Before It's Too Late)
By Michael Clinton
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Discover how to make the second half of your life happy and productive with this perceptive and inspiring guidebook that will help you achieve your dreams and get more out of life—whether or not retirement is in your future plans. View on Amazon
To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World's Oceans Shapes the Fate of the Superpowers
By Bruce Jones
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
From a brilliant Brookings Institution writer, a vivid, timely, and insightful examination of the critical role that oceans play in the daily struggle for global power, in the bestselling tradition of Robert Kaplan's The Revenge of Geography. View on Amazon
Shutdown: How COVID Shook the World's Economy
By Adam Tooze
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Deftly weaving finance, politics, business, and the global human experience into one tight narrative, a tour-de-force account of 2020, the year that changed everything—from the acclaimed author of Crashed. View on Amazon
Sit Down to Rise Up: How Radical Self-Care Can Change the World
By Shelly Tygielski
Publication Date: October 12, 2021
An empowering treatise on propelling profound social change by going inward, from a mindfulness teacher and activist who has turned personal practice into movements. View on Amazon
The Sleeping Beauties: And Other Stories of Mystery Illness
By Suzanne O'Sullivan
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
A riveting exploration of the phenomenon of psychosomatic disorders, mass hysteria, and other culture-bound syndromes occurring around the world. View on Amazon
Sludge: What Stops Us from Getting Things Done and What to Do About It
By Cass R. Sunstein
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
We've all had to fight our way through administrative sludge—filling out complicated online forms, mailing in paperwork, standing in line at the motor vehicle registry. This kind of red tape can impair health, reduce growth, entrench poverty, and exacerbate inequality, so Sunstein explains what we can do to reduce it. View on Amazon
Smarter Tomorrow: How 15 Minutes of Neurohacking a Day Can Help You Work Better, Think Faster, and Get More Done
By Elizabeth Ricker
Publication Date: August 17, 2021
MIT and Harvard-trained brain researcher turned Silicon Valley technologist invites readers to join her on a wild and edifying romp through the cutting-edge world of neuroscience and biohacking. View on Amazon
The Social Instinct: How Cooperation Shaped the World
By Nichola Raihani
Publication Date: August 31, 2021
In the tradition of Richard Dawkins's The Selfish Gene, Nichola Raihani's The Social Instinct is a profound and engaging look at the hidden relationships underpinning human evolution, and why cooperation is key to our future survival. View on Amazon
Sparked: Discover Your Unique Imprint for Work That Makes You Come Alive
By Jonathan Fields
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
Discover your unique imprint for work that fills you with meaning, joy, purpose, and possibility, then spend the rest of your life doing it. View on Amazon
Survival of the City: Living and Thriving in an Age of Isolation
By Edward Glaeser and David Cutler
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Edward Glaeser, one of our great urbanists, and David Cutler, one of our great public health experts, have joined forces to reckon with how cities are changing in the face of existential threats the COVID-19 pandemic has only accelerated. View on Amazon
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How We Can Reboot
By Rob Reich, Mehran Sahami, and Jeremy M. Weinstein
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
A forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professors that reveals how big tech's obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values, and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves. View on Amazon
The Ten Equations That Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too
By David Sumpter
Publication Date: August 24, 2021
In his new book, Swedish mathematician David Sumpter offers up ten empowering, illuminating equations that make our world go round, governing everything from investment banking to betting companies to social media giants, combining real world examples and practical ways that we can use these equations in our daily life. View on Amazon
Think Talk Create: Building Workplaces Fit for Humans
By David Brendel and Ryan Stelzer
Publication Date: September 21, 2021
Drawing on their backgrounds in psychiatry and politics, Brendel and Stelzer use the principles of active inquiry to help organizations build workplaces fit for humans, ones that are simultaneously humane and increase our potential for productivity and success. View on Amazon
Thursday Is the New Friday: How to Work Fewer Hours, Make More Money, and Spend Time Doing What You Want
By Joe Sanok
Publication Date: October 5, 2021
Create your own schedule, maximize your leisure time, and work less while making more by following the revolutionary—yet realistic—four-day work week outlined in this groundbreaking book. View on Amazon
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement
By Tarana Burke
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
From the founder and activist behind one of the largest movements of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, the "me too" movement, Tarana Burke debuts a powerful memoir about her own journey to saying those two simple yet infinitely powerful words. View on Amazon
Unfollow Me: Essays on Complicity
By Jill Louise Busby
Publication Date: September 7, 2021
Trick Mirror meets White Fragility—an intimate and insolent essay collection about race, progress, and hypocrisy from cultural commentator Jill Louise Busby, aka Jillisblack. View on Amazon
Water: A Biography
By Giulio Boccaletti
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
A revelatory history—spanning continents and millennia—of how humanity's relationship to moving water has shaped civilization, transformed political institutions, and defined people's lives. View on Amazon
We're Not Broken: Changing the Autism Conversation
By Eric Garcia
Publication Date: August 3, 2021
Garcia uses his own life as a springboard to discuss the social and policy gaps that exist in supporting those on the spectrum, giving his community a platform to articulate their own needs, rather than having others speak for them—which has been the standard for far too long. View on Amazon
Why Design Matters: Conversations with the World's Most Creative People
By Debbie Millman
Publication Date: October 26, 2021
The author, educator, brand consultant, and host of the award-winning podcast Design Matters showcases dozens of her most exciting interviews, bringing together insights and reflections from today's leading creative minds from across diverse fields. View on Amazon
The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power
By Jacob Helberg
Publication Date: October 12, 2021
From the former News Policy lead at Google, an urgent and groundbreaking account of the high-stakes global cyberwar brewing between Western democracies and the autocracies of China and Russia—which could potentially crush democracy. View on Amazon
You Are What You Click: How Being Selective, Positive, and Creative Can Transform Your Social Media Experience
By Brian A. Primack
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
An empowering, forward-thinking solution for creating intentional and healthy social media habits from an expert on media, technology, and health. View on Amazon
At Your Best: How to Get Time, Energy, and Priorities Working in Your Favor
By Carey Nieuwhof
Publication Date: September 14, 2021
You deserve to stop living at an unsustainable pace. An influential podcaster and thought leader shows you how. View on Amazon
Your Life Depends on It: What You Can Do to Make Better Choices About Your Health
By Talya Miron-Shatz
Publication Date: September 28, 2021
The past year has shown that confusion exists prominently in our medical conversations. We need a new guide to navigating these complex decisions, and psychology professor Miron-Shatz is here to provide one. View on Amazon
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The great war has silenced the battle around Arnold Schönberg – actually, the battle between Schönberg and the masses about art, which he and they so often regard with fundamentally different approaches.
That is, other terminology has become available; the return is to the smooth, trouble-free and long-familiar; the technique of waging war for or against art is forgotten; repose is sought where once where once was invigorating dispute. . .golden days! Was it not always fine, what the conflict of opinions about Schönberg used to evoke? Scandals and court actions, too! And a fine legal dispute it was – a battle about the right of a bold innovator of music, who achieved enough credibility to oblige others to hear him long enough until time had decided for or against him – well, it used to be impossible to understand him at once.
And yet – now the times are truly unsuitable for listeners' artistic development. Composure and quiet are required, fertile soil for artistic progress. But of course the present also belongs to one such as Schönberg, the teacher and theory innovator, since such a one needs reason above all. And the more reasonable one is now, the better. But the teacher Schönberg is so reasonable, so clearly forward-looking and, with all creative strength, so easily formative that one cannot sense at all the genius of his innovation in a powerful effort of one's own perceptivity.
And it was to this teacher that I devoted my latest visit. "So you do not wish to remain a teacher and master as you've been till now," went my initial question, "and you wish to found an entire, real school?"
"Well, I have to – gradually," he said. "As a teacher, I follow my own plans, a new, very special method – and it must go out into the world. You see; I want to avoid teaching and learning from an old book. Reading it chapter by chapter is worthless, for pupils and teachers alike. For the most part, a rigid syllabus only tells the pupils what they don't want to know. So I have based my courses, which I call seminars in composition, on an entirely new, liberal system, like this:
"A certain part of the day belongs to all my pupils together. Every pupil comes when he wants to learn, when he is curious to know about this or that. The subjects of the lessons are not fixed, they are subject to what the pupils want – that is, never according to a neatly ordered procedure – theory of harmony, counterpoint, orchestration. . .everything proceeds according to free choice.
"In detail, the lessons go like this; my pupils and I meet casually together in a classroom. One of them asks this or that question, and I answer according to the scope of the question, perhaps going beyond that, depending on whether I think it is good for the pupil or not. Perhaps I won't answer at all, because I'm not inclined to that aspect at the moment - and now and again I might simply send the pupil home because I'm just not disposed toward teaching that day and so I could only teach him a little or absolutely nothing. But if I have answered a question, then comes the next one and, if possible, it will link up with the previous one as closely as possible, and so forth. Of course, this system will not be so – unsystematic as that short description might lead one to assume. Shackles are placed on every liberty, to maintain order."
Schönberg looked at me closely, probing to see whether I had understood correctly. I had to agree with him, since he was in the process of finding the right method for the development of true artists, development which comes forth entirely from within. It would be ideal for artistic teaching if Schönberg's school found something positive to juxtapose to the negative aspect of individual eagerness to learn.
"I also associate this idea with a reform of a social nature," he continued. "I recommended it back when I received the appointment to the Academy – but I was ultimately obliged to live with its rejection. I was told that the state could not adopt such a reform, to which can only reply, 'If not the state, then who?' That is, this reformation consists in determining the fees according to the students' own self-evaluation. To the extent that I have this process in mind as a state-run measure, I imagine the teaching funding based on tax rates. . .but of course, as a private party, I cannot take that approach. I cannot presume to demand an official document so I can check the funds available to a pupil or to whomever is bearing his financial burdens. That is why I say that everyone should pay as much as is reasonable in his circumstances. . .I really do not see why a rich person should pay just as much as a poor one. If tuition fees are the same for everyone, the rich usually don't even notice the outlay, whereby the penurious often have to scrimp and save to pay for them.
As much as I was obliged to admit that Schönberg was right, I should have liked to voice some doubts about his reform of tuition fees – without the tax rates. Could one really count on people's complete honesty? And, on the other hand – wouldn't innumerable pupils flock to him, pupils whom one honors too much by half by calling them semi-talents? But I abandoned such thoughts, preferring to bask in the this marvelous man's idealism.
Then Schönberg told me about some of his new compositions and those yet unplayed; two theater works were on his shelf, awaiting perfromance. After that came a number of orchestra Lieder and an oratorio on a massive scale, Die Jakobsleiter; its profound, freely religious text was almost completely set to music. Schönberg told me about the technical improvements in those last works – the "choral woodwinds" which he introduced to achieve wind-instrument effects of uniform color, both in the form of multiple-note chords and for a powerful forte in the basses. It will be up to practical realization to prove the amount of actual effect they have as opposed to the number of orchestra players – Schönberg calls for eight contrabassoons, for example.
There was another reform needing approval in its relatively progressiveness – Schönberg's revamping of full scores. Ignoring all attempts at compromise previously undertaken in this regard, Schönberg has given his newest scores a form that might well be called similar to a piano reduction; all the parts are [written] in the treble and bass clefs, everything notated in the treble clef is shown on the upper half of the page, and everything written in the bass clef is given below that: likewise the main and secondary parts. None of the parts played by several instruments is notated for each instrument individually; the part is written out once and bears the names of the instruments concerned; all transpositions are eliminated.
There is no question but that this innovation will meet with resistance from many conductors used to the superfluous and often oh so outdated difficulties of conventional scoring they have learned. But though they may find Schönberg's unfamiliar form complicated, that will be offset by the dissimilarly facilitated overview of the entirety. "For conductors, every way of writing in my scores amounts to the same thing," Schönberg remarked incidentally.
Having broached the subject of orchestration, we discussed it further. Thoughts are exchanged rapidly in the company of a newly arrived musician, and before one knows it, one has again learned something new – one admires Schönberg the teacher. Yet he, too, is facing a new issue; he is 43 and it remains to be seen whether he can combine both doing his service as a lance corporal with a one-year volunteer medal in the militia and fulfilling his obligation as an artist and teacher.
Neues Wiener Journal (September 18, 1917)
Julius Bistron: Arnold Schönberg's Dreams of the Future
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A Tale of Lives Lost, Tax Dollars Wasted and Justice Denied
By John Conroy & Rob Warden
Wrongful convictions of men and women for violent crimes in Illinois have cost taxpayers $214 million and have imprisoned innocent people for 926 years, according to a seven-month investigation by the Better Government Association and the Center on Wrongful Convictions.
The joint investigation, which tracked exonerations from 1989 through 2010, also determined that while 85 people were wrongfully incarcerated, the actual perpetrators were on a collective crime spree that included 14 murders, 11 sexual assaults, 10 kidnappings and at least 59 other felonies.
"I am astounded,†said former U.S. Attorney Thomas Sullivan, who chaired the Capital Punishment Reform Committee established by the Illinois General Assembly. "Those are astounding numbers in terms of total years in prison and dollars spent.â€
Moreover, the 94 felonies in that crime spree may be just a fraction of the total number of crimes committed by the actual perpetrators. The investigation found that the 85 exonerations left 35 murders, 11 rapes, and two murder-rapes with no identified perpetrators and thus no way to add up their accumulated crimes.
While the BGA/CWC study revealed that almost all of the wrongful convictions were caused by multiple factors, the cause most commonly alleged was government error and misconduct by police, prosecutors, and forensic officials.
The investigation was conducted by the non-profit, non-partisan BGA and the Center on Wrongful Convictions, a non-profit organization, based at Northwestern University School of Law, which has been instrumental in the exoneration of 23 innocent men and women in Illinois.
The investigation's findings are based on the cases of 83 men and two women who were charged with murder, attempted murder, rape, kidnapping, and armed robbery, and who were exonerated between the years 1989 (chosen because it is the start of the DNA-exoneration era in Illinois) and 2010. The study involved nearly a hundred Freedom of Information Act requests; interviews and emails with the exonerated, police and prison officials, attorneys, judges, and proponents for reform; reviews of public documents assembled in criminal cases and filed in civil suits; and complex calculations based on the varying costs of maintaining inmates in prisons and different county jails (some incarcerations began in the 1970s).
The financial toll was calculated by adding the costs of incarceration in jails and prisons, compensation paid to the wrongfully convicted by the state in the wake of exoneration, and civil litigation costs (lawyers fees, expert witness fees, and judgments and settlements).
The study also suggests that the total financial cost to state taxpayers will approach or surpass $300 million in the next several years as 16 civil suits now pending and a 17th to be filed later this year are settled or come to trial.
Furthermore, because litigation expenses are such a large part of the public expenditure on wrongful convictions and because 56 of the 85 cases originated in Chicago, the bulk of the state's bill for wrongful conviction has been borne by Chicagoans.
Other states, counties, and cities have instituted a variety of reforms to reduce the financial and human toll. Some of those reforms have been in place for nearly ten years.
The study also revealed that it is far cheaper to incarcerate the innocent than to compensate them afterward.
Over the period of time studied, which covers the past 35 years, the BGA/CWC investigation found that the cost of keeping the 85 in jail and prison for a total of 926 years came to $18.5 million.
Litigation and compensation expenditures afterward were more than ten times that amount. Through the Illinois Court of Claims, the state provides compensation to the wrongfully convicted based on their years of imprisonment, and those costs totaled $8.2 million. A total of $31.6 million has been paid to private attorneys to defend governments and their employees in civil suits filed after exoneration, and $155.9 million has been paid to exonerees in settlements and judgments. Total litigation and compensation expenditures were $195.7 million.
One bad set of prosecutions can cost taxpayers dearly. The conviction of four men for a 1978 double murder in Ford Heights ultimately cost taxpayers $45.2 million. A woman, who started out as a witness in the case but later was wrongfully convicted as a participant, added another $5 million.
More disturbing, one bad case can ruin lives and wreak havoc in communities.
During the 26 years that Jerry Miller was serving prison time and probation for a brutal rape he did not commit, Robert Weeks, the actual perpetrator, attacked at least four women, raping three (he was stopped before raping the fourth); committed aggravated battery on 11 police officers; and attacked a man with a chain in an unsuccessful attempt to steal his watch, according to police and court documents.
Those documents indicate that injuries to the four women included a broken cheekbone, a broken nose, a broken orbital bone, a broken wrist, and lacerations, contusions, and hematomas to one woman's face, neck, ribs, and legs.
Three of the police officers required hospital treatment. Many of the attacks occurred in and around Wicker Park.
(An attorney for Weeks declined to comment.)
After his release from prison on parole in 2006, the innocent Miller, an Army veteran with no previous criminal convictions, endured the humiliation of having his name, photograph, and physical description posted on the state's registered sex offender website. In a recent interview with the BGA, Miller said he was also required to attend and pay for sex offender classes, prohibited from jobs that had contact with children and from living with any family member who had children, and forbidden to answer his door on Halloween.
Documents filed in Miller's civil suit against the city indicate that serological testing by the Chicago police crime lab to determine the blood type of the perpetrator should have cleared him, but the technician reported inconclusive results, a conclusion that a nationally renowned expert found "simply inconceivable†in 2009 after conducting the same tests on the rape victim's garment. Nothing in police reports indicate that Miller had done anything suspicious to make officers suspect he was a rapist, nor was he seen in the vicinity of the rape when it occurred, nor was there any physical evidence linking him to the crime.
According to police reports, Miller became a suspect because two patrolmen saw the composite sketch of the rapist and thought it resembled a man they'd seen several days earlier near Lincoln Park, approximately two miles from where the rape occurred. Miller had worked at a restaurant near the Lincoln Park Zoo and said he was back in the neighborhood that day looking for another job as a cook.
One of the parking lot cashiers picked Miller out of a lineup, another was described in police reports as having made a "tentative†identification, and although the victim picked two other men out of a photo array as possible suspects, at trial she said Miller "looked like†the man who attacked her.
DNA testing in 2007 exonerated Miller. His civil suit cost the city $8 million in settlement and legal fees.
Alleged government error, often rising to the level of misconduct, and eyewitness misidentification—both of which cost Miller and the city so much—are the two leading causes of wrongful convictions in the BGA/CWC study.
Government error and misconduct appeared in 81 out of the 85 cases, and purported eyewitnesses fingered the wrong person in 46, according to the investigations.
False confessions occurred in 33 cases, allegations of ineffective assistance of counsel appeared in 23, and incentivized witness testimony in 30 (an incentivized witness is someone who testifies with the expectation of some reward or benefit from law enforcement officials).
In the government error and misconduct arena, police behavior dominated (66 cases), followed by prosecutors (44). In 29 cases, forensic specialists testified or provided evidence that supported the prosecution's faulty theory of the case.
Cook County Judge Tommy Brewer, a former FBI agent, assistant state's attorney, and criminal defense attorney, found the frequency of government misconduct in the results particularly disturbing. In a recent interview he said that they "remind us that what we call the criminal justice system is often anything but just. And to the extent justice is lacking in our criminal justice system, it is not because of human frailties but often the deliberate malfeasance of those we entrust to run the system.â€
Jurisdictions in various parts of the country have introduced reforms designed to address the causes of wrongful convictions, but Illinois has been slow to adopt many of them.
According to an ongoing study being carried out by Sullivan and colleagues at Chicago-based law firm Jenner & Block, 11 states and hundreds of municipalities require the electronic recording of interrogations for all major felony crimes. Illinois requires recording only in homicide cases.
The American Bar Association (ABA) has recommended model rules requiring that prosecutors, upon finding new evidence that might indicate a wrongful conviction, must turn that material over to the defense; investigate to determine if the person is indeed innocent, and if so, take steps to remedy the conviction. While other states have embraced that reform, Illinois has not.
Illinois also lags behind in enacting reforms designed to reduce eyewitness misidentification.
In 2001, New Jersey's Attorney General John Farmer introduced the "blind†administration of lineups and photo arrays, an attempt to eliminate any cues from officers conducting the process. A blind administrator does not know who the suspect is.
Wisconsin, North Carolina, and municipalities in various other states, including Boston, Denver, and Dallas, have followed New Jersey's lead.
The BGA/CWC study found a substantial lag time between wrongful conviction and exoneration (the average length of imprisonment in the 85 cases was more than 10 years). Thus in Illinois, the financial costs and the attendant human toll is likely to proceed apace for the foreseeable future.
John Conroy is a senior investigator with the Better Government Association, and Rob Warden is the executive director of the Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern University School of Law.


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A mind-body practice that combines meditation and yoga might help people better manage migraine pain, a new clinical trial finds.
The trial, which tested the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), found that the approach helped relieve migraine sufferers' depression and disability. It also boosted how they rated their quality of life.
MBSR is a standardized, eight-week program developed in the 1970s. It combines meditation and gentle yoga postures, with the goal of shifting people's responses to stress, including body pain.
It's not that mindfulness makes pain go away, explained Daniel Cherkin, a senior investigator emeritus at Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, in Seattle.
Instead, he said, it helps people first become aware of their habitual reactions to their pain -- whether they tend to ruminate or "catastrophize," for example. From there, they can learn to "reframe" how they think about the pain and what it means.
Cherkin wrote an editorial published with the new findings in JAMA Internal Medicine on Dec. 14. His own research has found that MBSR can help people deal with chronic lower back pain.
Less has been known about whether people with migraines can benefit.
Worldwide, an estimated one billion people have migraine headaches, according to the Migraine Research Foundation. Along with intense head pain, migraines often cause nausea, visual disturbances, and sensitivity to light and sound.
For people who suffer frequent migraine episodes, medications can help prevent them. But they're not always enough.
Some people end up taking potentially addictive opioids, which is not recommended, said Dr. Rebecca Wells, a neurologist who led the new trial.
Still other patients, she added, stop taking their migraine medication because of side effects.
So there's a need for additional options, including non-drug ones, said Wells, an associate professor at Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, N.C.
To study MBSR, her team recruited 89 patients who were having anywhere from four to 20 "migraine days" a month. The researchers randomly assigned half to the eight-week mindfulness program, and the other half to receive education about migraines. All kept using their standard medications.
Three months later, both study groups had improved similarly on one measure: the number of migraine days. On average, patients reported about two fewer per month.
But the mindfulness group was doing better in other ways, including depression symptoms and how much disability their migraines caused. They also gave improved ratings to their quality of life.
"Those outcomes are very important to patients' lives," Wells said.
More research is needed to see what happens in the long run, according to Wells. But, in this study, the improvements in the MBSR group held up over nine months.
It's hard to know the specific reasons why, Wells said. But, like Cherkin, she pointed to the general principles of MBSR, including the fact that it helps people "live in the present moment," rather than allowing the mind to spin off.
No one is saying the physical pain is just "in people's heads." But the mind is intimately involved in how people experience pain.
"The mind and the body interact," Cherkin said. "They're connected."
If pain treatment does not acknowledge that, he added, it's a "missed opportunity."
Beyond specific effects of mindfulness, Cherkin said it's "empowering" for people to have a way to help themselves, rather than relying solely on treatments given by someone else.
"I think a lot of the benefit has to do with the fact that it engages people in their own care," he said.
But mindfulness practices are not for everyone. Just as people with an aversion to needles are unlikely to line up for acupuncture, people who view mindfulness as "weird" probably won't engage with it, Cherkin said.
And active participation is clearly key: The MBSR program is eight weeks, but people have to continue the practices afterward. During the course, they're encouraged to practice at home every day for 30 minutes.
There can also be practical barriers. The MBSR course is widely available, including online, but there is a cost. And, in general, insurance coverage of mind-body therapies is spotty, Cherkin said.
One question, according to Wells, is whether mindfulness practices in "other formats" could have the same benefit as MBSR. Her team wanted to study a standardized approach, in part, to identify a specific program that works.
More information
The Migraine Trust has more on migraine treatments.
SOURCES: Rebecca Erwin Wells, MD, MPH, associate professor, neurology, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston-Salem, N.C.; Daniel Cherkin, PhD, senior investigator emeritus, Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute, Seattle; JAMA Internal Medicine, Dec. 14, 2020, online


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Vaccine response test
This test looks for tetanus antibody in your blood.
Tetanus is a serious disease caused by the toxin from Clostridium tetani bacteria. The toxin makes its way into the nervous system and causes muscle spasms and rigid muscles.
If you have been vaccinated for tetanus in the past, this test should show that you have enough antibodies against the disease. If your levels are too low, you should receive a booster vaccine. The test will be repeated after at least a month. Several variations of the tetanus vaccine are available. The vaccine is recommended as a series in childhood. A booster vaccine is recommended every 10 years for teens and adults.
If you've never had a tetanus vaccine or been exposed to tetanus, you'll get vaccinated. You may return later to have your tetanus antibody levels checked to make sure the vaccine is working.
You may need this test if your healthcare provider wants to make sure your immune system can protect you against tetanus. Or you may need it to see if you have a problem that prevents your immune system from working correctly. This test can help diagnose:
Severe combined immunodeficiency
Common variable immunodeficiency
Antibody deficiencies
Immunoglobulin deficiencies
Spleen problems
HIV infection
You may also have this test if you get unusual infections, need antibiotics more often than usual, or have infections in your sinuses, ears, or digestive tract that keep coming back.
Your healthcare provider may also order tests to check your immune system's response to the diphtheria vaccine or the Streptococcus pneumoniae vaccine.
Test results may vary depending on your age, gender, health history, and other things. Your test results may be different depending on the lab used. They may not mean you have a problem. Ask your healthcare provider what your test results mean for you.
Results are given in international units per milliliter (IU/mL). Normal results are usually greater than 0.1 IU/mL. If the test shows your levels are at least that high, it means your immune system had a normal response to the tetanus vaccine.
The test is done with a blood sample. A needle is used to draw blood from a vein in your arm or hand.
Having a blood test with a needle carries some risks. These include bleeding, infection, bruising, and feeling lightheaded. When the needle pricks your arm or hand, you may feel a slight sting or pain. Afterward, the site may be sore.
Getting gamma globulin treatment in the 8 months before the test or immune globulin in the 5 months before the test will affect your results.
Having cancer, getting chemotherapy, or taking certain medicines that suppress the immune system can also affect your results.
Tell your healthcare provider if you have cancer, are taking immune-suppressing medicine, or have received gamma globulin or immune globulin in recent months. Be sure your healthcare provider knows about all other medicines, herbs, vitamins, and supplements you are taking. This includes medicines that don't need a prescription and any illegal drugs you may use.


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Americans commemorated 9/11 with solemn ceremonies and vows Wednesday to "never forget" 18 years after the deadliest terror attacks on American soil.
A crowd of victims' relatives assembled at ground zero, where the observance began Wednesday with a moment of silence and tolling bells at 8:46 a.m. — the moment when a hijacked plane slammed into the World Trade Center's north tower.
"As long as the city will gift us this moment, I will be here," Margie Miller said at the ground zero ceremony, which she attends every year. She lost her husband, Joel.
"Because I feel like if we don't come, they don't need to do it. And I want people to remember," said Miller, of Baldwin, on Long Island. After so many years of anniversaries, she has come to know other victims' relatives, and to appreciate being with them.
"There's smiles in between the tears that say we didn't do this journey on our own. That we were here for each other. And that's the piece that I think we get from being here," she said.
President Donald Trump was expected to join an observance at the Pentagon. Vice President Mike Pence was scheduled to speak at the third attack site, near Shanksville, Pennsylvania.
Former President George W. Bush, the commander-in-chief at the time of the 2001 attacks, was due at an afternoon wreath-laying at the Pentagon.
The nation is still grappling with the aftermath of 9/11 at ground zero, in Congress and beyond. The attacks' aftermath is visible from airport security checkpoints to Afghanistan. A rocket exploded at the U.S. embassy as the anniversary began in Afghanistan, where a post-9/11 invasion has become America's longest war.
The anniversary ceremonies center on remembering the nearly 3,000 people killed when hijacked planes rammed into the trade center, the Pentagon and a field near Shanksville on Sept. 11, 2001. All those victims' names are read aloud at the ground zero ceremony.
But there has been growing awareness in recent years of the suffering of another group of people tied to the tragedy: firefighters, police and others who died or fell ill after exposure to the wreckage and the toxins unleashed in it.
While research continues into whether those illnesses are tied to 9/11 toxins, a victims compensation fund for people with potentially Sept. 11-related health problems has awarded more than $5.5 billion so far. Over 51,000 people have applied.
After years of legislative gridlock, dwindling money in the fund and fervent activism by ailing first responders and their advocates, Congress this summer made sure the fund won't run dry . Trump, a Republican and a New Yorker who was in the city on 9/11, signed the measure in July.
The sick gained new recognition this year at the memorial plaza at ground zero, where the new 9/11 Memorial Glade was dedicated this spring.
The tribute features six large stacks of granite inlaid with salvaged trade center steel, with a dedication "to those whose actions in our time of need led to their injury, sickness, and death." No one is named specifically.
Some 9/11 memorials elsewhere already included sickened rescue, recovery and cleanup workers, and there is a remembrance wall entirely focused on them in Nesconset, on Long Island. But those who fell ill or were injured, and their families, say having a tribute at ground zero carries special significance.
Meanwhile, the Pentagon announced Monday that its 9/11 memorial will close next week for electrical and lighting work. The project, expected to take until late May, includes repairs to lighting glitches in the shallow reflecting pools under the memorial benches.
Sept. 11 is known not only as a day for remembrance and patriotism, but also as a day of service. People around the country continue to volunteer at food banks, schools, home-building projects, park cleanups and other charitable endeavors on and near the anniversary.
You can view photos of the various commemorations below:
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