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Aspen MLT is a California entertainment company founded by artist Michael Turner. It has locations in Santa Monica and Marina Del Rey. Launched in January 2003, the company is best known for producing comic books and figurines.

History[link]

The company was created by comic book artist Michael Turner in January 2003. The name "Aspen" comes from the main character in Turner's comic series, Fathom, with "MLT" standing for Michael Layne Turner. Aspen MLT released the fantasy adventure Soulfire in 2004, its first ongoing maxi-series. 2005 marked the return of Fathom (originally published by Image Comics) with comic artist Koi Turnbull taking over the illustration of the title. Ekos, a collaboration between Turner and Geoff Johns was scheduled to follow shortly after Soulfire, but was still unreleased prior to Turner's death in 2008.

In 2001, Top Cow Productions announced a live-action Fathom feature film and did supposedly entered into an agreement with James Cameron's Lightstorm Entertainment to co-produce the film.^[1].

Key people[link]

• Founder - Michael Turner
• Co-Owner - Peter Steigerwald
• Co-Owner - Frank Mastromauro
• Editor in Chief - Vince Hernandez
• Director of Design and Production - Mark Roslan

Titles[link]

• Aspen
• Aspen Swimsuit: Splash
• Charismagic
• Dellec
• Ekos
• Executive Assistant Iris
• Fathom
• Heroes
• Iron and the Maiden
• Lady Mechanika
• Mindfield
• Shrugged
• Soulfire

Collaborations[link]

Aspen MLT has worked together with both DC Comics and Marvel Comics on major cross-company collaborations. The most well-known are DC's Superman: Godfall and Superman/Batman: Supergirl, where creators of Aspen MLT worked together with DC to create art and story for these comics. Following this, both DC and Marvel contracted Michael Turner to produce covers for their series.

Aspen/DC works[link]

• Flash (covers)
• Identity Crisis (covers)
• Supergirl (variant covers - #1-5, interior colors #1-4)
• Superman: Godfall (covers and interior art)
• Superman/Batman: Supergirl (covers and interior art - #8-13)
• Superman/Batman #26 (covers)
• Teen Titans (variant cover - #1)
• Justice League of America (covers)

Aspen/Marvel works[link]

• Black Panther (#23-25 - covers (Turner) and interiors (Turnbull))
• Civil War (variant covers - #1-7)
• Incredible Hulk (variant cover - #100)
• Hulk (variant covers 1, 6 & 7)
• Ms. Marvel (variant cover - #1)
• Onslaught: Reborn (variant cover - #1)
• Ultimate Wolverine (promo art, series never completed)
• Ultimate X-Men (variant cover - #75)
• Wolverine: Origins (variant cover - #1)
• Wolverine Wolverine #66 Old Man Logan

Noteworthy creators[link]

• Talent Caldwell
• Jason Gorder
• Micah Gunnell
• Vince Hernandez
• Don Ho
• Geoff Johns
• J. T. Krul
• Jeph Loeb
• Frank Mastromauro
• David Morán
• Mark Roslan
• Beth Sotelo
• Peter Steigerwald
• Christina Strain
• Marcus To
• Koi Turnbull
• Michael Turner

References[link]

External links[link]

• Aspen MLT Inc. Official website

Leaf of Populus grandidentata

Autumn colourof Populus tremula

Male flowers (catkin) of Populus tremula

Aspen is a common name for certain tree species, some, but not all, of those that are classified by botanists in the section Populus, of the poplar genus.^[1]

Species[link]

The following species are called aspens:

• Populus adenopoda: Chinese aspen (China, south of P. tremula)
• Populus grandidentata: Bigtooth aspen (eastern North America, south of P. tremuloides)
• Populus sieboldii: Japanese aspen (Japan)
• Populus tremula: Eurasian aspen (northern Europe & Asia)
• Populus tremuloides: American aspen (northern & western North America)

Habitat and longevity[link]

The aspens are all native to cold regions with cool summers, in the north of the Northern Hemisphere, extending south at high altitudes in the mountains. They are all medium-sized deciduous trees reaching 15–30 m (49–98 ft) tall.

All of the aspens typically grow in large clonal colonies derived from a single seedling, and spreading by means of root suckers; new stems in the colony may appear at up to 30–40 m (98–130 ft) metres from the parent tree. Each individual tree can live for 40–150 years above ground, but the root system of the colony is long-lived. In some cases, this is for thousands of years, sending up new trunks as the older trunks die off above ground. For this reason it is considered to be an indicator of ancient woodlands. One such colony in Utah, given the nickname of "Pando", is estimated to be 80,000 years old, making it possibly the oldest living colony of aspens. Some aspen colonies become very large with time, spreading about 1 m (3.3 ft) per year, eventually covering many hectares. They are able to survive forest fires, because the roots are below the heat of the fire, with new sprouts growing after the fire burns out.

Aspens do not thrive very well in the shade, and it is difficult for aspen seedlings to grow in an already mature aspen stand. Fire indirectly benefits aspen trees, since it allows the saplings to flourish in open sunlight in the burned landscape. Lately, aspens have an increased popularity in forestry, mostly because of their fast growth rate and ability to regenerate from sprouts, making the reforestation after harvesting much cheaper, since no planting or sowing is required.

In contrast with many trees, aspen bark is base-rich,^{[clarification needed]} meaning that aspens are important hosts for bryophytes^[2] and act as food plants for the larvae of butterfly (Lepidoptera) species—see List of Lepidoptera that feed on poplars.

Young aspen bark is an important seasonal forage for the european hare and other animals in early spring. Aspen is also a tree of choice of the european beaver.

Uses[link]

Aspen wood is white and soft, but fairly strong, and has low flammability. It has a number of uses, notably for making matches and paper where its low flammability makes it safer to use than most other woods. Shredded aspen wood is used for packing and stuffing, sometimes called excelsior (wood wool). It is also a popular animal bedding, since it lacks the phenols associated with pine and juniper, which are thought to cause respiratory system ailments in some animals. Heat-treated aspen is a popular material for the interiors of a sauna. While standing trees sometimes tend to rot from the heart outward, the dry timber weathers very well, becoming silvery-grey and resistant to rotting and warping, and has traditionally been used for rural construction in the northwestern regions of Russia (especially for roofing, in the form of thin slats).

Aspens and other members of the Populus genus contain salicylates, compounds related to aspirin. Leaves and leaf buds of aspens have been used to treat burns, irritations, aches, and swollen joints.^{[citation needed]} Bitter herbal tea from bark and leaves has been used to treat mild urinary tract inflammations. The Ojibwe used the inner bark of the trunk as a poultice, and the Cree ate the inner bark in the spring as a mild purgative.^[3]

Legends[link]

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Aspen has been traditionally reputed in many countries to drive off evil spirits, hence it was often planted near the dwellings. According to an Eastern Slavic apocryphal legend, Judas Iscariot hanged himself on an aspen tree, hence its leaves have been trembling with horror ever since. The species does not grow in the Middle East, so this legend obviously has local syncretic origins.

An aspen stake was believed to be one of the few weapons suitable to kill a vampire. By the same token, a bigger stake could be driven into the grave of a person condemned to damnation, so as to prevent them from rising from the dead.

References[link]

External links[link]

Trees portal

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Aspen trees in heraldry

Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article Aspen.

• Aspen Information Resource, U.K.
• Quaking Aspen Forests of the Colorado Plateau
• Bioimages: Populus grandidentata bigtooth aspen
• Aspen Research Bibliography

MLT may refer to:

•  Malta - Republic of Malta, the country code.
• Master of Laws in Taxation, a specialized post-J.D. degree
• Metropolis light transport
• Modern Literal Taiwanese
• Multi-Link Trunking (MLT), Avaya link aggregation technology
• Media Lovin' Toolkit An open source multimedia framework, designed and developed for television broadcasting.
• Medical Laboratory Technician A healthcare professional who carries out various technical duties in the clinical laboratory.
• The IATA code of Millinocket Municipal Airport
• Malton railway station, England; National Rail station code MLT.
• Edwin Gordon's Music Learning Theory
• "MALT lymphoma-associated translocation", another name for MALT1
• Mutton, lettuce and tomato sandwich (cf. BLT sandwich)
• Modulated Lapped Transform, a transform technology used in audio coding, such as G.722.1 and Siren Codec
• Mobile Lines of Tajikistan
• Mechanized loop testing
• Magnetic local time

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Wendy Kopp
Kopp at the World Economic Forum annual meeting in 2012
Born	Wendy Sue Kopp (1967-06-29) June 29, 1967 (age 44) Austin, TX
Nationality	American
Alma mater	Princeton University
Occupation	CEO of Teach For America CEO of Teach For All

Wendy Sue Kopp (born June 29, 1967) is the CEO and Founder of Teach For America (TFA), the national teaching corps and the CEO of Teach For All.

Background[link]

Kopp attended Highland Park High School in Dallas, Texas and later was an undergraduate in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University. She received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton in 1989 and was a member of Princeton's Business Today.

Teach For America[link]

Shortly after graduation from Princeton, Kopp founded Teach For America.

In 1989, Wendy Kopp proposed the creation of Teach For America in her undergraduate thesis at Princeton University. She was advised in her thesis by senior sociology professor Marvin Bressler.^[1] She was convinced that many in her generation were searching for a way to assume a significant responsibility that would make a real difference in the world and that top college students would choose teaching over more lucrative opportunities if a prominent teacher corps existed.^[2]

In 2007 Wendy founded Teach For All, an organization that seeks to apply the methods of Teach For America to countries around the world.

Kopp chronicled her experiences at Teach For America in two books, One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way and A Chance To Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education For All

Personal life[link]

Kopp is married to Richard Barth, president of the KIPP Foundation. They have four children and live in Manhattan.^[3]

Honorary Doctorates[link]

• 2012: Harvard University
• 2010: Marquette University
• 2009: Washington University of St. Louis
• 2008: Georgetown University
• 2007: Mount Holyoke College
• 2007: Rhodes College
• 2004: Pace University
• 2004: Mercy College
• 2001: Smith College
• 2000: Princeton University
• 1995: Connecticut College
• 1995: Drew University

Awards[link]

• 2011: Spelman College National Community Service Award
• 2008: The Skoll Award for Social Entrepreneurship
• 2008: Presidential Citizens Medal
• 2006: The Harold McGraw, Jr. Price in Education Award
• 2004: The John F. Kennedy New Frontier Award
• 2003: The Clinton Center Award for Leadership and National Service
• 2003: The Schwab Foundation's Outstanding Social Entrepreneur Award
• 1994: Aetna's Voice of Conscience Award
• 1994: The Citizen Activist Award from the Gleitsman Foundation
• 1993: Princeton University Woodrow Wilson Award
• 1991: The Jefferson Award for Public Service

Books[link]

• One Day, All Children: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach For America and What I Learned Along the Way. (2001)
• A Chance to Make History: What Works and What Doesn't in Providing an Excellent Education for All. (2011)

Trivia[link]

• 5 February 2007: Kopp appeared on the Colbert Report.^[4]

Footnotes[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Wendy Kopp

Biographies:

• Official biography - Teach For America
• Thesis sparks thriving teacher corps - Princeton University
• Biography - John Glenn School of Public Affairs
• Wendy Kopp at the Internet Movie Database
• Wendy Kopp: America's Best Leaders

Interviews and speeches:

• Feature video interview with Wendy Kopp on The Alcove with Mark Molaro
• Teaching Children - PBS
• Change the World Interviews
• 2009 Commencement Speech - Washington University in St. Louis
• 2008 Commencement Speech - Georgetown University
• 2007 Commencement Speech - Mount Holyoke College
• 2006 Commencement Speech - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
• Podcast Interview with Wendy Kopp Social Innovation Conversations, February 1, 2008
• C-SPAN Q&A interview with Kopp, September 30, 2007

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Jonah Martin Edelman (born 9 October 1970) is an American advocate for public education.^[1] He is the co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Stand for Children, a national American education advocacy organization based in Portland, Oregon and Waltham, Massachusetts, with affiliates in ten states. He is the first Oregon resident to be awarded an Ashoka: Innovators for the Public fellowship.^[2]

Background and education[link]

Jonah Edelman is the second son of Marian Wright Edelman, former civil rights leader and aide to Martin Luther King, Jr. and founder and president of the Children’s Defense Fund, and Peter Edelman, former aide to Senator Robert F. Kennedy, former Assistant Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services, and professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

Edelman was born and raised in Washington, D.C, and received his B.A. in History with a concentration on African-American studies from Yale University in 1992. Edelman attended Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, earning his Master of Philosophy and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Politics in 1994 and 1995, respectively.

Edelman cites tutoring a six-year-old bilingual child named Daniel Zayas in reading while volunteering at Dwight Elementary School during his first year at Yale as a turning point.^[3] While still an undergraduate, he ran a teen pregnancy prevention speakers' bureau, co-founded a mentorship program for African American middle school students, and served as an administrator of an enrichment program for children living in public housing-Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership (LEAP).

Stand for Children[link]

Edelman was a key organizer of Stand for Children Day, a June 1, 1996 rally at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. attended by 300,000 people.^[4] Among the speakers at this rally, the largest for children in U.S. history, were Geoffrey Canada, who later became Stand for Children’s first Board of Directors Chair, the editor of Parade Magazine, Walter Anderson, who came up with the name “Stand for Children Day,” and Marian Wright Edelman.

On June 2, 1996, Edelman and Eliza Leighton founded Stand for Children as an ongoing advocacy organization to support rally participants when they returned home. Hundreds of follow up Stand for Children events and rallies took place across the country on June 1, 1997 and then June 1, 1998.

Anxious to have a deeper impact on children’s lives than was possible through one-day events, Edelman developed Stand for Children's grassroots advocacy approach based on key strengths of leading past and present membership associations, community organizing networks, and advocacy groups, and in consultation with legendary organizer Marshall Ganz, a protégé of Cesar Chavez. In November 1998, Edelman moved to Oregon to pilot it at the urging of Hanna Andersson founder and then CEO Gun Denhart. In 1999, Edelman supported a team of committed Salem, Oregon residents in organizing Stand’s first chapter, which remains active.^[5] In the more than decade since, Stand for Children has grown to include dozens of local chapters in nine state affiliates and become a leading advocate in the United States for better public schools. Stand for Children focuses on the following strategies for improving public schools:

• Getting great teachers and principals in every classroom and every school, giving educators the strong support, flexibility, and pay they need to do their best work, and making it easier to let teachers and principals go who, even with support, aren’t doing the job.
• Giving schools greater freedom to innovate while maintaining strong accountability.
• Expanding learning time, through a longer school day and year and providing high quality early childhood education.
• High school graduation standards that ensure high school graduates are ready for college or a career.
• Tests that truly measure what students know and how well they think.
• Data systems that measure students’ growth from year to year, show whether or not students are on track to graduate, and indicate how well schools and teachers are educating children.
• Effective intervention for chronically low-performing schools and struggling students.

In 2011, Stand for Children – and Edelman in particular – was cited in Time Magazine for “delivering results and changing how politicians think about grassroots education reform.” This acclaim was attributed to their work to improve school funding in Oregon, teacher evaluations in Colorado, and teacher policy in Illinois.^[6]

Recent Controversy

At the Aspen Ideas Festival on June 28, 2011, Edelman was the center of a controversy due to remarks he made regarding recent concessions by teachers' unions leading to landmark education reform legislation in Illinois. While unions and legislators say they engaged in a collaborative effort in which all sides gave a little in an effort to improve Illinois’ schools, Edelman told attendees at the Festival, that, actually, he led a well-funded campaign that used lobbyists and shrewd political gamesmanship to pressure union leaders to give up their rights. “They essentially gave away every single provision related to teacher effectiveness that we had proposed — everything we had fought for in Colorado,” Edelman said in Aspen. “We hired 11 lobbyists, including four of the absolute best insiders and seven of the best minority lobbyists, preventing the unions from hiring them.” He further stated, “There was a palpable sense of concern if not shock on the part of the teachers’ unions of Illinois that Speaker [of the House Mike] Madigan had changed allegiance and that we had clear political capability to potentially jam this proposal down their throats the same way that pension reform had been jammed down their throats six months earlier."^[7]

Subsequent to this speech, a video of Edelman’s lecture went viral. Afterwards, he apologized for his “arrogance” in claiming his political manipulations alone passed the bill to the exclusion of unions’ contributions. The Illinois Education Association declined his apology.^[8]

Honors[link]

• 2007: Ashoka: Innovators for the Public Fellowship
• 2005: Hunt Alternatives Fund Prime Mover
• 1992: Rhodes Scholarship
• 1992: Alpheus Henry Snow Prize, Yale University

References[link]

External links[link]

• Stand for Children
• Biography page at Stand for Children
• Ashoka Fellow profile page
• "Jonah Edelman: The Activist." Time Magazine profile.
• Quick and the ED podcast -- Podcast of Jay Mathews, Washington Post columnist and author, joined by Richard Barth, CEO of the KIPP Foundation and Jonah Edelman, executive director of Stand for Children, an advocacy group focusing on public education reform for the discussion. Education Sector’s Andrew Rotherham served as moderator.

Videos[link]

• Edelman discusses newly passed Illinois Senate Bill 7 legislation with Chicago newscaster on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 (2:54 minutes)
• Presentation by Jonah Edelman at City Club of Portland on Friday, February 20, 2009 (62:54 minutes)
• Clip of Jonah Edelman at the Aspen Ideas Festival, discussing political maneuvers to pass SB7 in Illinois, June 28, 2011 (14:44 minutes)