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Boston and the Back Bay. The MBTA Silver Line, a Bus rapid transit service running partly in a tunnel from South Station, also serves the north side of South Boston. South Boston is also served by five bus routes including |
the numbers 5, 7, 9, 10, 11. Notable residents South Boston has been the birthplace and home to a number of notable people, including: References in popular culture - The 2010 crime thriller The Town starring and directed by Ben |
Affleck, was partly filmed in South Boston. Scenes taking place at the fictional Town Flowers were filmed at Thornton Flower Shop on Dorchester Street. - Gone Baby Gone (2007), the directorial debut of Ben Affleck, was shot in South Boston. |
- Black Irish (2007) - The Departed (2006), starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson and Mark Wahlberg was shot in South Boston and was loosely based on the life of famed Irish mob leader James "Whitey" Bulger and the |
events leading up to his hiatus and being an informant for the FBI. - In Good Will Hunting, a 1997 drama film directed by Gus Van Sant and written by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, South Boston is the home |
of the fictional Irish American character Will Hunting, a troubled young prodigy played by Damon, who works as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. - Mystic River directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tim Robbins, Kevin Bacon, and |
Sean Penn was partially filmed in South Boston. A local corner store, Miller's Market of 366 K Street, was used as one of the character's businesses. - The movie The Boondock Saints, about fraternal twins, Connor and Murphy MacManus, who |
become vigilantes after killing two members of the Russian Mafia in self-defense, also takes place in South Boston. - The 1999 movie Southie centers around Danny Quinn, played by Donnie Wahlberg, who returns home to South Boston from New York |
City and gets stuck between his friends, who are supported by one Irish gang, and his family, who are members of another. Wahlberg is a native of nearby Dorchester. - The Verdict, a 1982 feature film which tells the story |
of a down-on-his-luck alcoholic lawyer who pushes a medical malpractice case in order to improve his own situation, but discovers along the way that he is doing the right thing, takes place in, and was filmed in, South Boston. It |
starred Paul Newman. - In the 1987 romantic comedy film, Broadcast News, about a virtuoso television news producer (Holly Hunter), who has daily emotional breakdowns, a brilliant yet prickly reporter (Albert Brooks) and his charismatic but far less seasoned rival |
(William Hurt), a young Aaron Altman (played by Dwayne Markee) states, "You're never gonna leave South Boston and I'm gonna see the whole damn world." - In the film The Friends of Eddie Coyle, about a low level Boston gangster |
who was looking at a long prison sentence for repeat offenses, and so decided to snitch on his friends to avoid jail time. - In the TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer the character of Faith Lehane (Eliza Dushku) is |
a Slayer who originally hails from South Boston. Dushku grew up in nearby Watertown. - Eliza Dushku's character refers to being a Southie native in the "Stage Fright" episode of the TV series Dollhouse. - The Leverage character of Nathan |
Ford is possibly from South Boston, as the episode "The Beantown Bailout Job" indicated he had grown up with a ranking member of the Irish Mob. - Julianne Moore's character in a series of 2009 episodes of 30 Rock mentioned |
that she was from South Boston. - In an episode of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, Soleil Moon Frye's character mentions that "it's better than living in a shack in Southie." - In the Showtime drama Dexter, the character Joseph Quinn |
(played by Desmond Harrington) is from South Boston. There have been a number of books written about South Boston. Video games The Scout from online game Team Fortress 2 hails from South Boston. Voodoo, in Medal of Honor (2010), is |
from South Boston. He has a very distinct accent. - "U.S. Supreme Court HURLEY v. IRISH-AMERICAN GAY GROUP OF BOSTON, ___ U.S. ___ (1995)". FindLaw. 18 June 1995. Retrieved 2009-02-02. - Walkowski, Paul; Connolly, William (April 1996). From Trial Court |
to the United States Supreme Court Anatomy of a Free Speech Case: The Incredible Inside Story Behind the Theft of the St. Patrick's Parade. Branden Books. ISBN 0-8283-2012-8. - "History of the Memorial". South Boston Vietnam Memorial. Retrieved 2009-02-02. - |
The Greening of Southie (2008) - "South Boston Waterfront Public Realm Plan". Boston Redevelopment Authority. October 21, 2003. Retrieved 2009-02-01. - "Seaport makeover to begin next year". Boston Metro, 23 September 2010, p 3. - James M. Kelly, long-time city |
councilor and South Boston icon, dies. Boston Globe, January 9, 2007. - Cf. Sammarco (2006), p.25 - History of the South Baptist Church, Boston, Boston : Alfred Mudge & Son, 1865. - Boston Connects. South Boston - "Welcome to the |
Boston Housing Authority". Boston Housing Authority. Retrieved 2009-02-01. - "West Broadway". Boston Housing Authority. Retrieved 2009-02-01. - "West Ninth Street". Boston Housing Authority. Retrieved 2009-02-01. - "Old Colony". Boston Housing Authority. Retrieved 2009-02-01. - "Mary Ellen McCormack". Boston Housing Au... |
Retrieved 2009-02-01. - "Foley". Boston Housing Authority. Retrieved 2009-02-01. - "Monsignor Powers". Boston Housing Authority. Retrieved 2009-02-01. - Marquard, Bryan (2010-06-22). "John Ferruggio, at 84; hero of 1970 Pan Am hijacking". Boston Globe. Retrieved 2010-06-27. - Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell; Rosenberg, |
Charlie, South Boston: Then & Now, Arcadia Publishing Company, 2006 Further reading - Charles Bancroft Gillespie (1900), Illustrated history of South Boston, South Boston, Mass: Inquirer Pub. Co. - Malloy, Ione (1 October 1986). Southie Won't Go: A Teacher's Diary |
of the Desegregation of South Boston High School. University of Illinois Press. ISBN 0-252-01276-3. - O'Connor, Thomas (24 February 1994). South Boston, My Home Town: The History of an Ethnic Neighborhood. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 1-55553-188-1. - Alcorn, Frank (7 |
October 2005). Southie Boy. Cork Hill Press. ISBN 1-59408-054-2. - Weeks, Kevin; Karas, Phyllis (10 March 2006). Brutal: The Untold Story of My Life Inside Whitey Bulger's Irish Mob. William Morrow. ISBN 0-06-112269-6. - MacDonald, Michael Patrick (4 October 2007). |
All Souls: A Family Story from Southie. Beacon Press. ISBN 0-8070-7213-3. - Born before plastic: stories from Boston's most enduring neighborhoods; North End, Roxbury, and South Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA: City of Boston and Grub Street, Inc., 2007 |Wikimedia Commons |
has media related to: South Boston| - South Boston Online - South Boston Tribune - South Boston Neighborhood at City of Boston.gov - Topographic Map of South Boston - Southies St Patrick's Day Parade - South Boston Little League - |
are classified in this family, divided among eight genera. Older classifications place this family in the order Lycoperdales, but more recently they had been placed in Phallales. As of 2010, the family is classified as the sole taxon in the Geastrales order. One member of the Geastraceae, Sphaerobolus stellatus—a nuisa... |
wood-based mulches and may throw black, spore-containing globs onto nearby painted surfaces. The fruit bodies of several earthstars are hygroscopic: in dry weather the "petals" will dry and curl up around the soft spore sac, protecting it. In this state, often the whole fungus becomes detached from the ground and may r... |
dampens, the "petals" moisten and uncurl and some even curl backward lifting the spore sac up. This then allows rain or animal movement to hit the spore sac so it will puff out spores when enough moisture is present for them to germinate. - Hosaka K, Bates ST, Beever RE, Castellano MA, Colgan W 3rd, Domínguez LS, Nouhr... |
J, Giachini AJ, Kenney SR, Simpson NB, Spatafora JW, Trappe JM. (2006). "Molecular phylogenetics of the gomphoid-phalloid fungi with an establishment of the new subclass Phallomycetidae and two new orders". Mycologia 98 (6): 949–59. doi:10.3852/mycologia.98.6.949. PMID 17486971. - Corda ACJ. (1842). Icones fungorum huc... |
(2008), p. 648. - Kirk PM, Cannon PF, David JC, Stalpers JA. (2001). Ainsworth & Bisby's Dictionary of the Fungi (9th ed.). Oxon, UK: CABI Bioscience. p. 205. ISBN 0-85199-377-X. - Kirk PM, Cannon PF, Minter DW, Stalpers JA. (2008). Dictionary of the Fungi (10th ed.). Wallingford, UK: CAB International. p. 274. ISBN 97... |
itself as a nation with its own character, or national identity, in texts written for children from the latter part of the nineteenth century up until the end of World War II. Our approach is to consider how early Australian children’s literature included in the CLDR collection rhetorically constructs nation |
and place, and in so doing constructs an Australian identity for its implied readers. Citation countsare sourced monthly fromand citation databases. These databases contain citations from different subsets of available publications and different time periods and thus the citation count from each is usually different. S... |
either database and no count is displayed. Scopus includes citations from articles published in 1996 onwards, and Web of Science generally from 1980 onwards. Citations counts from theindexing service can be viewed at the linked Google Scholar™ search. Full-text downloadsdisplays the total number of times this work’s fi... |
Snow leopard population discovered in Afghanistan The Wildlife Conservation Society has discovered a surprisingly healthy population of rare snow leopards living in the mountainous reaches of northeastern Afghanistan's Wakhan Corridor, according to a new study. The discovery gives hope to the world's most elusive big c... |
some of the world's tallest mountains. Between 4,500 and 7,500 snow leopards remain in the wild scattered across a dozen countries in Central Asia. The study, which appears in the June 29th issue of the Journal of Environmental Studies, is by WCS conservationists Anthony Simms, Zalmai Moheb, Salahudin, Hussain Ali, |
Inayat Ali and Timothy Wood. WCS-trained community rangers used camera traps to document the presence of snow leopards at 16 different locations across a wide landscape. The images represent the first camera trap records of snow leopards in Afghanistan. WCS has been conserving wildlife and improving local livelihoods i... |
region since 2006 with support from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). "This is a wonderful discovery – it shows that there is real hope for snow leopards in Afghanistan," said Peter Zahler, WCS Deputy Director for Asia Programs. "Now our goal is to ensure that these magnificent animals |
have a secure future as a key part of Afghanistan's natural heritage." According to the study, snow leopards remain threatened in the region. Poaching for their pelts, persecution by shepherds, and the capture of live animals for the illegal pet trade have all been documented in the Wakhan Corridor. In |
response, WCS has developed a set of conservation initiatives to protect snow leopards. These include partnering with local communities, training of rangers, and education and outreach efforts. Anthony Simms, lead author and the project's Technical Advisor, said, "By developing a community-led management approach, we b... |
in Afghanistan over the long term." WCS-led initiatives are already paying off. Conservation education is now occurring in every school in the Wakhan region. Fifty-nine rangers have been trained to date. They monitor not only snow leopards but other species including Marco Polo sheep and ibex while also enforcing laws |
against poaching. WCS has also initiated the construction of predator-proof livestock corrals and a livestock insurance program that compensates shepherds, though initial WCS research shows that surprisingly few livestock fall to predators in the region. In Afghanistan, USAID has provided support to WCS to work in more... |
across the country and is training local people to monitor and sustainably manage their wildlife and other resources. One of the many outputs of this project was the creation of Afghanistan's first national park – Band-e-Amir – which is now co-managed by the government and a committee consisting of all |
14 communities living around the park. Snow leopards have declined by as much as 20 percent over the past 16 years and are considered endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). WCS is a world leader in the care and conservation of snow leopards. WCS's Bronx Zoo |
became the first zoo in the Western Hemisphere to exhibit these rare spotted cats in 1903. In the past three decades, nearly 80 cubs have been born in the Bronx and have been sent to live at 30 zoos in the U.S. and eight countries in Europe, Asia, Australia, and |
North America. Source: Wildlife Conservation Society - Wildlife Conservation Society finds 'world's least known bird' breeding in AfghanistanWed, 13 Jan 2010, 14:10:53 EST - WCS confirms the return of the Persian leopard In Afghanistan's central highlandsMon, 5 Dec 2011, 22:39:32 EST - First ever videos of snow leopard... |
cubs in dens recorded in MongoliaThu, 12 Jul 2012, 18:05:03 EDT - Wildlife Conservation Society documents pneumonia outbreak in endangered markhor Sun, 8 Jan 2012, 21:31:30 EST - Rare Andean cat no longer exclusive to the AndesWed, 16 Mar 2011, 14:36:29 EDT - Threatened snow leopards found in Afghanistanfrom AP |
ScienceFri, 15 Jul 2011, 0:00:36 EDT - Elusive snow leopards thrive in Afghan regionfrom MSNBC: ScienceThu, 14 Jul 2011, 16:00:21 EDT - Photos: Elusive Snow Leopards Thrive in Surprising Spotfrom Live ScienceThu, 14 Jul 2011, 11:30:44 EDT - Cameras catch snow leopards in Afghanistanfrom UPIThu, 14 Jul 2011, 5:30:29 EDT |
- Cameras catch snow leopards in Afghanistanfrom UPIWed, 13 Jul 2011, 18:00:26 EDT - Snow leopard population discovered in Afghanistanfrom Science BlogWed, 13 Jul 2011, 14:00:23 EDT - Snow leopard population discovered in Afghanistanfrom Science DailyWed, 13 Jul 2011, 13:30:31 EDT - Snow leopard population discovered i... |
Jul 2011, 12:32:13 EDT - Healthy Snow Leopard Population Discovered in Afghanistanfrom Newswise - ScinewsWed, 13 Jul 2011, 12:32:02 EDT Latest Science NewsletterGet the latest and most popular science news articles of the week in your Inbox! It's free! Check out our next project, Biology.Net From other science news sit... |
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Estonia Has Least Polluted Urban Air in the World27 September 2011 Levels of fine airborne particles in Estonia's urban areas are the lowest in the world, a comparative table published by the World Health Organization (WHO) on 26 September reveals. The Indian Ocean island nation Mauritius ranked second while Canada |
landed in third place, according to the WHO data. The report looked at two different particle sizes: those with a diameter less than 2.5 micrometers (PM2.5) and those smaller than 10 micrometers (PM10). In Estonia, PM2.5 was registered at 5.4 micrograms per cubic meter of air, while PM10 was at |
11 micrograms per cubic meter of air. The highest concentration of particles was registered in Mongolia, where PM2.5 peaked at 63 and PM10 at 279 micrograms per cubic meter of air. According to WHO, each year over two million people around the world die due to the inhalation of fine |
particulate matter. The WHO ranking list contained results of urban outdoor air pollution monitoring from almost 1 100 cities with a population of at least 100 000. Air pollution in Estonia was measured only in Tallinn and the data dates back to 2008. Estonian Public Broadcasting |
Brussels, 21 December 2005 The European Commission today proposed a new strategy on the prevention and recycling of waste. This long-term strategy aims to help Europe become a recycling society that seeks to avoid waste and uses waste as a |
resource. It will draw on the knowledge that the thematic strategy on resources, also adopted today, will generate. As a first step, the Commission proposes revising the 1975 Waste Framework Directive to set recycling standards and to include an obligation |
for Member States to develop national waste prevention programmes. This revision will also merge, streamline and clarify legislation, contributing to better regulation. The waste and resources strategies are two of the seven 'thematic' strategies required under the 6th Environment Action |
Programme (2002-2012). Environment Commissioner Stavros Dimas said: “Waste volume has been disproportionately increasing outpacing even economic growth. Waste generation, disposal and recycling are of concern to all of us: individuals, companies and public authorities. Now is the time to modernise |
our approach and to promote more and better recycling. Our strategy does precisely that. More waste than ever EU environment legislation has helped improve the way we dispose waste and recycle specific waste streams, such as municipal waste, packaging, cars |
and electric and electronic equipment. Waste management has moved a long way from being a dirty, polluting business. High standards exist for landfills and incinerators. Industry now seeks to make a profit from waste instead of dumping it. However, waste |
generation in the EU is estimated at more than 1.3 billion tonnes per year and is increasing at rates comparable to economic growth. For example, both GDP and municipal waste grew by 19% between 1995 and 2003. One consequence of |
this growth is that despite large increases in recycling, landfill - the environmentally most problematic way to get rid of waste - is only reducing slowly. Waste policy must contribute to improving the way we use resources What is needed |
now is to modernise and widen EU waste policy in the light of new knowledge. Companies and public authorities need to take a life-cycle approach that does not only look at pollution caused by waste. It must also take account |
of how waste policies can most efficiently reduce the negative environmental impacts associated with the use of resources through preventing, recycling and recovering wastes. To move towards this objective EU waste law must create the right regulatory environment for recycling |
activities to develop. Measures proposed by the strategy The strategy comes as a package. It includes a legislative proposal to modernise the 1975 Waste Framework Directive. The main elements of the proposed revision of the Waste Framework Directive are: Further |
measures are programmed for the next five years to promote recycling and create a better regulatory environment for recycling activities. An Impact Assessment accompanies the strategy. The other five thematic strategies the Commission is developing under the EU’s 6th Environment |
Action Programme cover air pollution (presented on 21 Sept. 2005) and marine environment (20 Oct. 2005) as well as soils, pesticides and the urban environment, which are upcoming. Thematic strategies represent a modern way of decision-making. They are based on |
extensive research and consultation with stakeholders, address the issues in a holistic way that takes into account links with other problems and policy areas, and promote Better Regulation. See MEMO/05/496 for more details on this Strategy. The full strategy is |
= B = Used of human behavior, conveys that the subject is busy waiting for someone or something, intends to move instantly as soon as it shows up, and thus |
cannot do anything else at the moment. "Can't talk now, I'm busy-waiting till Bill gets off the phone." Technically, `busy-wait' means to wait on an event by spinning through a |
tight or timed-delay loop that polls for the event on each pass, as opposed to setting up an interrupt handler and continuing execution on another part of the task. In |
applications this is a wasteful technique, and best avoided on time-sharing systems where a busy-waiting program may hog the processor. However, it is often unavoidable in kernel programming. In the |
Old name for the Middle East ern area which is now Israel , supposedly derived from "Philistine ," a biblical-era name for a part of the region. In 1948 a United Nations mandate divided the area between Arabs and Jews -- the Palestinian leaders and leaders of surrounding countries (who |
were all Arabs) did not accept this and have several times since then invaded or attacked Israeli territory. In the process of fighting back, Israel actually gained about 80% of the territory originally divided about equally between the two groups. The Gaza Strip and the West Bank are some of |
these areas; they are now partially ruled by the Palestinians native to the areas but are still overall under Israeli control. Many Palestinians, both those who've left the area and those who've stayed, are part of resistance movements with the goal of regaining some or all of the territory once |
Woodrow Wilson, as described in the introductory section of the text, was the leader of the immediate post-war period and was the architect of an internationalist vision for a new world order. Yet, as discussed in the paragraphs below, he was not able to persuade the other Allied leaders at the peace settlement negotia... |
just the opposition of Clemenceau and Lloyd George to some of his ideas that moved the conference away from Wilson's vision. Wilson became so blindingly caught up in his vision, thinking that everything he advocated was what democracy and justice wanted, that he completely alienated the other negotiators in Paris, and ... |
Wilson himself stopped listening to his earlier vision, having become convinced that a harsh peace was justified and desirable. Even if that historical view is accurate, Wilson was probably still more moderate in his conception of a harsh peace than were Clemenceau and Lloyd George. But as the conference dragged on and... |
his proposal for the League of Nations. In fact, he seemed to place all his faith in his pet project, believing it would solve all the evils the negotiators were unable to solve during the conference. Unfortunately, Wilson made it clear that the League was his primary objective, and it came to be his only bargaining ch... |
had no corollary in his vision in order to maintain the support for the creation of the League. Thus, though full of good intentions and a vision for a just and peaceful future, Wilson's arrogance and ineffective negotiating skills largely contibuted to the downfall of his vision. Finally, it must be mentioned that Wil... |
the ratification of the Treaty of Versailles caused the Senate to reject the Treaty, leaving the United States noticeably absent from the newly created League of Nations, which greatly undermined the effectiveness and importance of Wilson's principal goal. Nonetheless, Wilson was awarded the 1919 Nobel Peace Prize for ... |
of Nations. David Lloyd George, the British Prime Minister, entered the negotiations in Paris with the clear support of the British people, as evidenced by his convincing win in the so-called khaki election of December 1918. During the weeks leading up to the election, though, he had publicly committed himself to work ... |
committed against the British. These campaign promises went against Lloyd George's personal convictions. Knowing that Germany had been Britain's best pre-war trading partner, he thought that Britain's best chance to return to its former prosperity was to restore Germany to a financially stable situation, which would ha... |
George's understanding that the public did not hold the same convictions as he did, and that, on the contrary, the public wanted to extract as much as possible out of the Germans to compensate them for their losses during the war. So Lloyd George and Clemenceau were in agreement on many points, each one seeming to supp... |
thereby scratching each other's back as the "game of grab" of Germany's power played itself out. But most historians do not attribute to Lloyd George a significant role in the Treaty negotiations. In their defense, Clemenceau and Lloyd George were only following popular sentiment back home when they fought for harsh te... |
after seeing so many young men not return from the trenches on the Western front, the French and British wanted to exact revenge against the Germans through the peace settlement, to ensure that their families would never again be destroyed by German aggression. In that respect, democracy was clearly functioning as it i... |
quintessential example of an elected leader serving the interests of his people, putting his personal convictions second to British public opinion. Yet it was that same public opinion (in France and Britain) that Wilson had believed would support his internationalist agenda, placing Germany in the context of a new and ... |
the single greatest factors leading to the compromise of his principles and the resulting harsh and, in the eyes of many, unjust treatment of Germany within the Treaty of Versailles. [See also the biographies of the Big Three listed on the Links 1. James L. Stokesbury, A Short History of World War I, 1981, p. 309. 2. M... |
Germany, the War-Guilt Question, and the Treaty of Versailles,"inThe Treaty of Versailles: A Reassessment After 75 Years, Ch. 25, Boemeke, Feldman & Glaser, eds., 1998, pp. 603-614. 3. Robert H. Ferrell, Woodrow Wilson and World War I: 1917-1921, 1985, p. 146. 4. Lawrence E. Gelfand, "The American Mission to Negotiate ... |
Years, Ch. 8, Boemeke, Feldman & Glaser, eds., 1998, p. 191. 5. See Ferrell, supra note 3, Ch. 10, "The Senate and the Treaty." 6. Information from this paragraph is taken from Ferrell, supra note 3, at 142, 144, 151. 7. Id. at 151. 8. Stokesbury, supra note 1, at 311-312. |
Children are willing to ask one parent and then the next to get the desired answer. Parental communication is key to combating this divisive strategy. Children determine from an early |
age which parent they should ask for permission in which circumstance. I can illustrate this with the example of my own family. If the request involved some degree of daring, |
risk, or danger, they always approached Dad, the one more likely to allow a bareback ride on the horse or a run down a black diamond ski slope. When it |
came to social events, they made the intelligent choice to come to Mom. I am — and always have been — more of a social butterfly than dear old Dad. |
This division of labor in regard to granting permission is logical and harmless. The problems begin when a child asks one parent, is denied permission, and then asks the other |
parent, looking for an override of the first ruling — Divide and Conquer. If this is allowed in your family, it will definitely be disruptive. When Divide and Conquer is |
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