Religious leaders in Los Angeles are forming an underground network of homes as part of an effort to provide shelter for families facing deportation, CNN reported Thursday.
According to CNN, the Rapid Response Team network could shelter hundreds and potentially thousands of undocumented immigrants across Southern California.
“That’s what we need to do as a community to keep families together,” said Pastor Ada Valiente, after showing CNN a house that is ready to host three families.
Similar services for immigrant families are already being provided by numerous churches and religious buildings in the area.
According to CNN, this Rapid Response Team seeks to go beyond the existing measures.
Another participant who did not want to be identified told CNN he will do everything in his power to protect his guests if immigration authorities come knocking on his door.
I would travel to Hell’s most inconvenient grocery store to get this cow whatever treat it wanted. Day, night, rain or shine, whether I just woke up or got out of work. I don’t care.
If this abyssial baby wants a treat, I’m going. I’m getting my shoes, I won’t even complain.
Mildred Dresselhaus, a professor emerita at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology whose research into the fundamental properties of carbon helped transform it into the superstar of modern materials science and the nanotechnology industry, died on Monday in Cambridge, Mass. She was 86.
Her death, at Mount Auburn Hospital, was confirmed by her granddaughter Leora Cooper. No cause was given.
Nicknamed the Queen of Carbon in scientific circles, Dr. Dresselhaus was renowned for her efforts to promote the cause of women in science. She was the first woman to secure a full professorship at M.I.T., in 1968, and she worked vigorously to ensure that she would not be the last.
In 1971, she and a colleague organized the first Women’s Forum at M.I.T. to explore the roles of women in science. Two years later she won a Carnegie Foundation grant to further that cause.
“I met Millie on my interview for a faculty job in 1984,” said Lorna Gibson, now a professor of materials science and engineering. “M.I.T. was quite intimidating then for a new female, but Millie made it all seem possible, even effortless. I knew it wouldn’t be, but she was such an approachable intellectual powerhouse, she made it seem that way.”
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Dr. Dresselhaus used resonant magnetic fields and lasers to map out the electronic energy structure of carbon. She investigated the traits that emerge when carbon is interwoven with other materials: Stitch in some alkali metals, for example, and carbon can become a superconductor, in which an electric current meets virtually no resistance.
Dr. Dresselhaus was a pioneer in research on fullerenes, also called buckyballs: soccer-ball-shaped cages of carbon atoms that can be used as drug delivery devices, lubricants, filters and catalysts.
She conceived the idea of rolling a single-layer sheet of carbon atoms into a hollow tube, a notion eventually realized as the nanotube — a versatile structure with the strength of steel but just one ten-thousandth the width of a human hair.
She worked on carbon ribbons, semiconductors, nonplanar monolayers of molybdenum sulfide, and the scattering and vibrational effects of tiny particles introduced into ultrathin wires.
She published more than 1,700 scientific papers, co-wrote eight books and gathered a stack of accolades as fat as a nanotube is fine.
Dr. Dresselhaus was awarded the National Medal of Science, the Presidential Medal of Freedom (bestowed by President Barack Obama), the Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, the Enrico Fermi prize and dozens of honorary doctorates. She also served as president of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and worked in the Department of Energy in the Clinton administration.
“Valeska Suratt is Not Superstitious, and here’s proof.”
~ Los Angeles Herald, Number 17, 21 November 1916. retrieved from the California Digital Newspaper Collection.
Miss Suratt throws a “Lucky Party” to prove she isn’t superstitious. It includes a black cat, spilled salt and other temptations of fate.
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Accused of being superstitious, Valeska Suratt recently celebrated the filming of William Fox’s “Jealousy,” which is now drawing crowds to Miller’s theater, by giving a dinner party to several fellow workers at the studio.
The fete was unique. She called it a “Lucky Party” and she arranged it in such a manner that everyone who had nerve enough to attend must quake with fear for the rest of his life. She told her guests that they were expected and that they would be punished for having said she was superstitious. Then she awaited results.
When the day’s work was done the invited persons donned their evening clothes and proceeded to the dining room of the studio, where the dinner had been arranged. In the passage leading to the room was a ladder. It was extended across the hall, too high for anyone to reach. The actors had to pass under it.
That was the first evil omen of the event. The guests did not dream that the affair had been arranged by Miss Suratt as the first gun in her war against superstition. But when they entered the dining room they realized that something was wrong.
A large black cat played about the floor, and managed to get directly in the way of each guest at some time or other. Every salt-cellar on the table was overturned, the prongs of all the forks were pointing the wrong way, and the forks themselves were crossed by the knives. Above each place was suspended a large umbrella—open!
There was a slight movement of objection among the guests.
“Think I’ve got a date with a friend,” remarked Joseph Granby, quietly. “I’ll have to go. Sorry.”
“I forgot I was already invited to dinner,” George Adams began, “It’s very unfortunate—”
“Not one of you moves,” Miss Suratt said. “If you leave this room I’ll know it is because you’re superstitious. What difference does this little business make to you? You see I’m standing it myself and I’m the one you’ve accused of being superstitious. You’ll hold yourself up to ridicule if you don’t stay.”
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